First night with Ze baby

Casey was great, and nurses are jerks.

Casey actually slept pretty well last night.  We're starting to get the first hints of a 'schedule' out of her.  She sleeps for a while, wakes up, we change her diaper to wake her up (she hates that part) and put her right on Jessie for a good half-hour or so of feeding.  Jess is being a real trooper with the nursing.  It's not particularly pleasant, and you have to keep doing it all the time.  But shes doing it, because she's the best mom in the world.  Sorry Mom, you're #2 now.  :)

Casey has gotten better at nursing too.  She's essentially a machine designed to learn how to breast feed as soon as possible, so it's not entirely surprising, but this is our first time getting it right, so it's good to know Casey is going to meet us partway.

She's a strong little girl, too.  Must have been all those workouts on mommy's bladder.  There's a burping method by which you hunch them over your hand and balance their chin in the V of your thumb and first finger.  I was burping Casey like that for a while and she decided something needed to go in her mouth, so she screwed up her head to the side to try and get the side of my finger in her mouth.  Here's the kicker: *I couldn't stop her*.  I think we might have birthed a UFC fighter or something.  Well, something future-y er than that.  Maybe she'll fight with Mech suits.

The nurses actually kept us up MUCH more than Casey did.  They had to come in to take blood, check blood pressure, get Jess walking, remove a catheter, all sorts of stuff.  We spent a lot more time taking care of the nurses than we did for Casey.

In fact, Casey is probably a little *too* good of a baby.  We want to make sure Jessie's milk comes in, and as annoying as that is, it means a lot of feeding.  Casey would sleep a lot longer if we let her, but we definitely want to get as much food in her tiny little belly as she can.  So we've been waking her up after several hours and letting her feed for as long as she wants.  She goes in fits and starts, but nursing sessions usually take her at least 30 minutes.  Good kid.

Oh, and you have to make sure that Casey stays awake, and that means that you are required, on occasion, to chew on her ears and nibble on her ribs.  For her sake, of course.

-N