Babymoon.

Blogging will be light over the next few weeks, I’m thinking.

It’s so hard to know what the most important details are to post, with a two-day-old baby. 

Birth junkies will want to know that the labor was fairly short, not terribly hard — the tough part, only about two hours long — though it culminated in about 60 somewhat scary seconds of shoulder dystocia.  Particularly since this is the second time I’ve had that problem.  But all’s well that ends well.  We had two midwives and two female friends come over — the friends helped our kids and so Mark could be with me the whole time.  The boys missed the actual birth, and I’m kind of glad because it was a bit frightening.  They came up after Mary Jane started to cry. 

LLL types will want to know that nursing is going ehhhhh, so-so.  After two boys I thought I knew what I was doing.  MJ has a bit of a latch problem:  a receding jaw and a tongue thrust.  She does ok when she latches on, but it takes a good 5-15 min to get her latched.  We’re working on it.  I had a former League leader, a friend’s mom, over at my house today for a couple of hours to remind me of all the things I’ve forgotten because my second child was such an easy nurser.  After 6 years of continuous nursing I am back to Square 1, that being the Square Where You Need Half A Dozen Pillows Within Reach At All Times.

If family dynamics are your thing, well… can you come watch my boys for a couple of days?  No, it’s not that bad, yet, but I’ve been intermittently VERY overwhelmed!  They love their new sister, but the energy around here is very charged!  Jumping and screaming and yelling and fighting and all that.  I suppose they will settle down eventually.  We are trying to keep Oscar’s routine close to normal — that seems to be helping some. 

Me, I’m doing ok.  The afterpains are something fierce!  Worse than labor, a few of them.  But I think recovery will be fairly swift.  Home birth rocks.  Give me a couple of days.