The Mommy Update

Hi friends,

Thanks for your emails and blog comments. I really appreciate your support and love. I am doing well and enjoying being a mom. Sometimes its hard to believe its real. In some ways, its seems like we have always had Sage. She is a very good baby. She's already on her own little schedule and typically eats about every 3 hours during the night and morning. During the afternoon, she takes a couple even longer naps. She is eating well too. However, it will be nice when my body can figure out exactly how much milk she needs. The poor child can barely keep up when we start nursing! We typically get up a couple of times at night and then I just sleep in the morning when she does. So the day typically doesn't get started until about noon. But we both need to sleep, right? A friends of mine said "Take care of yourself for 6 weeks and you'll feel it at 6 months."

I am feeling pretty good overall. Just taking some Motrin. It sounds like the tailbone is a slow heal, but I guess it just kind of heals by itself. My stitches and tear are doing better as well.

I really do enjoy being a mom and feel a lot of peace and joy and that we are starting a new phase in life. It has been really great to have Eric here with me for the first two weeks. I have had a few post-partum, weepy moments where I cry for no reason at all, but he just listens and lets me get it all out. I've also started to relax a little bit and not run to the crib even time she hiccups (for some reason, you feel like if you're not with them every second, they'll stop breathing :).

Anyway, Eric is with me the rest of this week, and then I'll have a week on my own, and then my mom and family will come out. Hopefully by then, we might venture out of the house a little!

I love you guys and hope each of you are doing well. I can't wait until we can have a reunion sometime.