Eeva at 17 days

Its been about 17 days since Eeva was born. Things are definately a lot different with her here. She has brought so much Joy to Kirk and I. I am a slow healer so the recovery from this delivery is taking a lot longer and is harder than I expected, but its worth it to have our adorable little one here. She has a really strong neck for her age (even though she is still learning what to do with it and needs to be supported) and super strong legs & arms. She is always trying to squirm out of the swaddling blankets and a lot of the time is able to succeed because of her mighty strength. :) The day after we came home from the hospital she rolled over from her back to her stomach all by herself. That was a big surprise to us since we thought that babies couldn't do that for a little while. She has given us a few scares. In the hospital they had to pump her stomach about 4 times because she would stop breathing occasionally. She's had a couple of close calls like that since we got home from the hospital, but its gotten a lot less frequent, and isn't nearly the worry it was a week ago. A couple days ago she started noticing little things like the mobile and a certain rattle toy we put on her car seat. That was fun. We think she has started to recognize Kirk and I as well. Yesturday I went into the bathroom to shower and she started fussing a lot, Kirk finally brought her into the bathroom to see me and when she saw me she immediately stopped fussing. It was like she just needed to know I was ok, since she couldn't see me. It was very cute. Nursing this little angel has been interesting. At first I was giving all that she wanted per feeding. That stopped working because she would feed for an entire 45 minutes and then start spewing out throw up for more than half the day. When we talked to the doctor about this he said to feed her less amounts and more often, so thats what we've started to do. At night she'll eat about every 4 hours just like any other normal baby, but during the day we have to feed her every 1.5 hours. Sometimes every hour. We usually give her 15 to 20 minutes, or if she wants to eat less, sometimes its 5 or 10 minutes instead. Since we've started this routine she has started spitting up a more normal amount instead of throwing up all day, so its a good thing. There are definately a lot of new things happening that we didn't expect to happen in quite this way, but it is such an amazing blessing to have such a cute little one to take care of.