She finally has a name!
Please say hello to Mae!!She is 6 days old today. She is named after the little sister in the movie
Totoro. She has my middle name, and my husband's last name (I kept my maiden name).
She has been a great baby, and her sisters absolutely love her to pieces. The poor thing is getting kissed to death. The girls have been picking out her outfits, too. Because she is so long, none of the newborn stuff I have fits her! She's wearing 0-3 months already just because of the length, but it's a bit wide on her, so she has plenty of room to fill out.
Nursing is going pretty well. We're still working on getting the latch just right, but it's improving every day, and she's having a ridiculous amount of wet and dirty diapers, so she's definitely eating enough. My goal is to have her back up to birth weight by her 1 week checkup on Monday. Both my other girls were, and I don't see any reason she would be any different.
We've been so fortunate to have many people bring us food. I've simply told people vegan, because that simplifies things and gets somewhat compatible food, and I'm in no position to be overly picking (especially with the amount of exceptions I've made in the past few months. Vegan stuffed acorn squash is way better than a pint of ice cream!). I'm shrinking back down more quickly than I had expected, but it's very obvious that I just had a baby.
Thank you everyone for the well wishes and congratulations! I am so glad to have this community to share my journey with.