The First Month Home With Zoë

The very first night with Zoë at home she sleep 6 hours straight!  I woke up in a panic, the nurses had told me to feed her every three hours and not before.  So I woke her up and fed her.  The next evening she had seemed hungry and it had only been an hour and a half since I fed her.  Derek and I were trying to decide what to do.  I knew she was hungry but I did not want to overfeed her, I was so upset and confused.  So I fed her but then felt guilty.  On the third day we went to visit Dr. Baker for the first time at his office.  He made me feel so much better saying I should feed her when she gets hungry and let her sleep when she wants to sleep.  He said she will develop her own schedule.  At 5 days old she weighed 8 lbs. 12 oz. was 21.5 inches long and her head was 35.5 cm.

She slept so well that I got a good amount of sleep each night.  The first week I had a lot of trouble with breast feeding.  It was far more painful then I ever thought it would be.  I was a mess, constantly worried I would not be able to keep her alive.

When Zoë was a week and a half old we took a trip down to Nashville and Franklin TN.  We had a great time!  Zoë slept most of the day and we walked all over town.  I also learned how to breast feed standing up.

For Thanksgiving Grandma and Pop Roberts came up.  Zoë slept all day.  We had a great dinner and our friends The Haney's came over with their two girls.  Their daughter Larkin is just one week younger then Zoë.  Both of them slept next to each other while we all stuffed our faces.

It snowed that night and I could not sleep, I was so excited and wanted to take Zoë outside to see snow for the first time.

So to recap Zoë pretty much just slept her entire first month of life.