Hospital Recovery

We stayed in the LDR (labor deliver repair recovery) room for about 2 hours after Makaela was born. Everytime the nurses came in they raved about how good the room smelled. Victory! We brought a Scentsy from home and turned it on before I started pushing. No one wants to smell birth! Picture Tim sticking his fingers in the hot wax and holding them under his nose throughout the whole process. Yes, this really went down.

After they brought me breakfast (I hadn't eaten in about 30 hours at this point and those cold scrambled eggs were the best things ever) we Tim packed up our stuff and the nurse wheeled us over to the Mother and Baby unit where we would be required to stay for the next 48 hours (the minimum for all first time moms).

The staff was so accommodating. They checked on us regularly (made sure we were both eating and going potty) and were totally on top of the pain management stuff.

A couple of my friends came to visit the day she was born and a couple of Tim's friends came to visit the next day. It was fun showing off our little monkey :-)

The hospital rule is that no one can stay over night (between 9-9). Yep, that even means Daddy. Do they fully enforce that rule? I'm not sure, but we followed it. It sounds kind of crazy but we think it actually may have been a good thing. It allowed Daddy to go home and take care of the dogs and get a full night sleep. Fortunately, baby girl was low maintenance so Mama even got some sleep at the hospital in between the nurses coming in to check on us.

On Wednesday they gave us the stamp of approval that both mama and baby were doing fine and told us we could be discharged. Holy cow...she is OURS. Forever.

On the way home we stopped to get some additional "recovery" supplies for mama and also got Wendy's. Makaela did pretty good the whole ride considering she was hungry. We are definitely getting the hang of the importance of timing feedings before activities...

We love learning together as we go.