Our First 2 Weeks

We spent Jordan's first 2 days in the hospital and came home Saturday afternoon on June 29th. We were surrounded by so many friends and family members that already love Jordan so much. We are so happy to share our little gift with everyone in our life. 

The first two weeks have consisted of lots of sleeping, eating and diaper changes, which was expected. We are all adjusting to the 'feed the baby every 3 hours' thing. One person says to never wake a sleeping baby, and another says, DON'T FORGET TO FEED IT!! It is 2013 after all, so you can imagine most of our parenting choices are fueled by google and the first link that comes up typically wins the battle! 

Things we've learned over the first 2 weeks: Feed every 3 hours, wash her face every day but her body once every 3 days, don't touch the umbilical cord stump, let her sleep 16 hours a day, make sure she has alert awake time, why is she breathing so loud, why does she keep putting her hands in her face, and the list. goes. on.

Below are only a few pictures from the hospital and our first week at home. I wish I could post them all, but as most parents do, we took way too many!

I'll give credit to my sister for this, but on her blog she put a list of things she didn't want to forget about my nephew at that stage of his life. I am going to steal it because I think it's a cute idea for us to remember what Jordan is doing now so we can look back and remember the development of our little one! I'm aware that at 2 weeks she doesn't do a lot but sleep and eat, so this is probably a pretty short list for now! 

 - Her hands are ALWAYS on her face
- This means a new scratch on her face every day

- She raises her eyebrows and puckers her lips when she's hungry

- Her neck is stronger than we would have thought. She throws her head around like crazy.

- Her eyes change colors every day
 - We can see her focus on our faces when we hold her