<\/p>\nOverall, things are going pretty well here with our new addition to the family: Rosie is a fabulous nurser, Lucy continues to enjoy hugging and kissing her, and everyone has been eating regular meals. We’ve even caught up with our laundry (quite a feat between Jon’s week out of town before delivery, our hospital stay, and a backlog even before Lucy had her bout with the “stomach virus”:\/news\/2008\/help-for-barfy-barney\/). But of course, successes don’t preclude a few crying jags here and there on the part of Mama. <\/p>\n
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p{color:gray}. Photo #1: Rosie looks pretty elated while still in the delivery room.<\/p>\n
Between my naturally emotive nature and post-partum hormone changes, I find myself all over the map emotionally these days. Here are five things that set me off crying today:<\/p>\n
# Exhaustion after a rough night with Rosie, who didn’t want to be put down at any point between midnight and 7am. (Jon and I took turns, but I find it hard to sleep with a baby on me.)
\n# Worrying about how I don’t handle exhaustion well — “everyone else seems to be able to do it!” Ha!
\n# Feeling guilty about letting Lucy watch too many They Might Be Giants videos (although _she_ certainly doesn’t mind).
\n# Sadness about losing my abundance of one-on-one time with Lucy.
\n# Disliking how easy it is to lose my patience with Lucy these days, even when she isn’t doing something naughty, just taking a long time with it (like dawdling while “brushing teeth”:\/news\/2008\/oral-hygiene-impasse\/).<\/p>\n
But, on the flip side, I feel awesome sometimes, too! Here are five things that made me feel great today:<\/p>\n
# “Oxytocin rushes”:\/news\/2006\/milk-face\/ during nursing. (Plus, my uterine cramping seems to have subsided!)
\n# Getting a shower.
\n# Sorting baby clothes with Rosie happily snoozing in the “sling”:\/news\/2006\/ready-for-august\/ during a visit from ““Aunt” Linda”:\/news\/2008\/kay-kay.
\n# Stealing a few minutes today with Lucy to paint with “watercolors”:\/news\/2008\/lucys-first-watercolor\/ — what a treat!
\n# Writing this post _while Rosie nurses!_<\/p>\n
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p{color:gray}. Photo #2: Literally two seconds later, she looks a bit more glum. I guess we’re all going through some mood swings.<\/p>\n
Right now, it seems pretty hard to handle two little ones. Already there have been three or four times when Jon and I are doing _simultaneous_ diaper changes! But we keep reminding ourselves that things will keep on changing, that we’ve only been back from the hospital for two days. It seems as if the advice in labor of “taking one contraction at a time” fits for life with a newborn, too. Stay in the present moment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Overall, things are going pretty well here with our new addition to the family: Rosie is a fabulous nurser, Lucy continues to enjoy hugging and kissing her, and everyone has been eating regular meals. We’ve even caught up with our laundry (quite a feat between Jon’s week out of town before delivery, our hospital stay, … <\/p>\n