Picture time

Well, it's only been 14 hours since Kate was born, she's barely done anything but sleep, and it already feels like a long day. D and Kate both need some assistance (at least for the first day), and we have to get up every three hours to try to get Kate to eat. Though labor took a while, she came out pretty quickly once D started to push....maybe 10 minutes. That didn't really provide Kate enough time "in the wringer," and she still has a lot of amniotic fluid in her stomach. Until she gets it all out, she's a little hesitant to eat, so last night was filled with every-three-hour spit-up sessions instead of feeding sessions. Once it's all cleared out, she should be much happier and ready to eat.

We had the nursery take her for a few hours last night, so that we could sleep without having to worry about her choking on spit-up....she never appeared to be in distress, but better safe than sorry. This morning we got up and spent a little time with her during her second period of alertness. She's already got a lot of personality, but she's extremely mellow. She doesn't cry very much at all (yet) and she seems pretty amenable to anything we need to do with her (diaper changes, re-swaddling, even her vaccine shot).

All the pictures are on a Picasa album here, but I'll post a few.

Here's a good full-body shot. You can see that she's a lot bigger than she looks when she's all wrapped up.

She definitely has my feet. They're huge, and she kept her toes spread the whole time.

She's mellow, but she likes this frowny face.....she was fast asleep, but her face still has a lot of personality.

She's my little burrito!