Showing posts with label birth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label birth. Show all posts

Friday, May 14, 2010

day five

Luca is five days old. And already, so much is changing around here.


  • Today is the first day I am feeling a bit clear-headed and mentally present. I blame the first few foggy days on the oxytocin rush that I was experiencing from breastfeeding and milk production. I have been getting excellent amounts of rest but feeling extremely doped out and mellow. My milk came in withing the first 24 hours after he was born and he was ready and waiting for all of that nourishment indeed. Maybe things are starting to regulate a bit.
  • Luca has already regained the weight he lost in the first few days... and then some. He didn't need the first two weeks to get back to his birth weight!
  • No more umbilical cord. Nope. He lost it today while all three children were holding him in my bed. They called out to tell me and I hardly believed them. It seems so early!
  • Luca's cheeks are already filling out. Now they are rosy and plump!
  • Thinking back to the birth just five short days ago and really starting to revisit the experience both mentally and emotionally. It was phenomenal. Starting to think about writing the birth story and where to begin with it... days, hours or minutes before the actual birth?

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

a new life

Our new baby was born in the wee hours of the morning yesterday. We are home now and just reeling from the excitement of welcoming this new life. Here are a few photos from our first few hours together. More photos and some birth stories to come soon... I have to get back to swooning over this baby and enjoying the sheer giddiness of becoming a mother of four!

Luca Daniel Houle
May 10, 2010
7 pounds 13 ounces, 22 inches long