We made it past the two week mark! Sophie is doing well and so are Greg and I. We went to my two week appoint­ment and the doc­tor says every­thing is look­ing good. I can drive now (the Echo, not the stick shift Scion) and go for short walks, but noth­ing stren­u­ous. I am still on my, “only stand for 30 min­utes” restric­tion until I go back on January 7 and the heav­i­est thing I can pick up is Sophie (which is funny because she gains weight everyday.)

Sophie has fig­ured out night and day. She usu­ally gets up around 8:00 in the morn­ing and crashes about 4:00 in the after­noon. By then she is out for about 2.5 hours and eats for about 20 min­utes. She keeps that pat­tern up the rest of the night. She has kept that sched­ule now for the last 13 days, hope­fully she will keep at it. We do have our fuss moments where she can’t fig­ure out if she is hun­gry, tired or bored. We try really hard to make sure she is clean and fed in these moments and pray she fig­ures out that tired is her option and she falls to sleep. One prob­lem is mom doesn’t know many, “Baby go to sleep” songs, so I usu­ally rock her to some non­sen­si­cal hum­ming or hand her to dad who has a much bet­ter singing voice and musi­cal repertoire.

My mom went back home today, so I am on my own tomor­row. It is a lit­tle scary not hav­ing the extra safety net and the chance to actu­ally get in a shower in the morn­ing because I can hand Sophie to my mom. But Sophie and I will fig­ure it all out. Well, that is about all. Sophie is peace­fully sleep­ing right now, but soon the lit­tle, “feed me” cry will sound from the crib and mom will be on duty again!