It’s been a week since we brought our little Peach home from the hospital and what fun she’s been. That is if your idea of fun consists of changing diapers and not sleeping. And spending hours just looking at your newborn daughter in awe/shock. Here she is blissfully snoozing in her rolling vintage 1940s pram that we are using as a bassinet, swaddled in her favorite blanket, snuggled up next to our bed.
We spent the first day home cooing over our little daughter patting ourselves on the back for being so lucky to have a baby that slept six hours straight on her first day home. Only to find out the next day from our pediatrician that we were letting her dehydrate by not waking her up for feedings. So we were sent to breastfeeding bootcamp and entered the world of sleepless nights and crying babies.
But it did give me a chance to use and show off to you some small craft projects I worked on but never posted. The re-covering of my Boppy and my “Brest Friend” pillow that I bought used for $5 each. Here they are!
And pregnant ladies out there–the my Brest Friend pillow really is amazing for breastfeeding. Three of my new mom friends agree with me–it made all the difference in helping them get their breastfeeding acts together. I had the fabric in my stash, but I was somewhat lazy and just re-did the top of my Brest Friend pillow and left the rest the demin. Whatever, it still rules!
And the boppy is good for holding the baby if nothing else. You can see the heinous cover that was originally on the Boppy. Ick!
Next post is going to rule. I promise!
For dropping off such a nice sweet baby girl as this one. Well worth the wait, if I do say so myself.
We are head over heels with this our little Peach. Our Sugarsnap. This darling and beautiful little bit of life.
We just feel so truly blessed as we tuck her into our lives forever. So wonderful. I wish I was a better writer to capture all that this is, all that has changed in one quick breath with her wee barbaric yawp. Something I have wanted as long as I can remember–kissing and cuddling my Raggedy Ann since I can remember.
I hope I do right by you, little girl of mine. Mine.
And thank you all for your very kind words of encouragement that helped keep me sane through the final couple of weeks and putting up with my incessant crafting. Please know that I felt and appreciated every good luck wish during my time in the hospital. You all are the very very best friends and readers a girl could ever ask for and I am so lucky to have each and every one of you in my life–from people I see every day, to newly found friends to readers that have never even left a comment but still read my garrulous gobblygoop blog–thank you!
I must admit I have absolutely no idea how much this wee one will change my blogging habits, but I hope you’ll continue to check in. And I fear there may be more Peachy posts than anything else, but I will try my best! vPlease note that I do have two crafty posts that I hope to post in the upcoming days.
Oh, and here she is–two days old sporting of course a Miss Dottie original little knit hat–a bit of good luck in the nursery to tell her apart from all of the other babies. Not that the hat was needed for that…
Isn’t she sweet?
