Welcome Baby Addison!

I finally have a free moment to update this blog! Wow, has life changed in the blink of an eye, but I love every second of it. I can't complain either, because I think we have two of the most low-maintenance kids around! So, starting back to Friday morning...

We checked in to the hospital at 7:30 Friday morning. Here's how our day progressed from there:

8:30 2 cm, IV put in place

8:50 started on pitocin and Dr. Kroska broke my water

10:30 walked the halls

10:50 3 cm, pitocin turned off

11:40 Epidural

1:10 5 cm

1:50 7-8 cm, nurses prepare for delivery

2:35 almost 10 cm

3:05 fully dialated and ready to push

3:20 Addison arrives!

She is: 8 lbs. 2 oz. and 19.5 inches long! I can't believe what a big baby I had in there!

It was a quick and easy delivery...I can't complain at all! I enjoyed all the skin-to-skin contact that the doctors and nurses allowed me to have with her.

Here I am somewhere during the process. Judging by how relaxed I look in this picture, I'm thinking it was sometime AFTER I got the epidural.

Shortly after Addison was born, my Mom and Dad arrived with Big Bro Landon. It was very emotional for me to see him walk in the room, but I was so happy to see how curious he was about the baby. He immediately tried to touch her and give her kisses.

Darren is one proud Daddy! I think that Addison already has her Daddy wrapped around her little finger. Here they are enjoying her first Twins game together.

The hospital stay was short and sweet. The nurses and doctors were all fabulous! I couldn't have asked for a smoother three days there. We had no trouble with nursing this time around...Little Addison latched right on and has been nursing like a pro ever since. No need for a lactation consultant this time! My recovery has been MUCH easier this time around. Only a second degree laceration and I have been able to move around and feel like a normal person again. I haven't needed much for pain meds, so I have felt much better! We enjoyed lots of visitors at the hospital. We were more than ready to go home on Sunday morning!

Here we are getting ready to leave:

On the way home from St. Cloud we stopped out at the lake cabin to pick up Landon. Like Darren said, only a Minnesota summer baby would make her first stop at the lake on the way home from the hospital! We enjoyed lunch there with my family and then headed home.
Our first night at home was smooth and Landon couldn't be a better big brother. We have to remind him to be gentle with her. He doesn't understand how fragile she is and only wants to love on her as much as possible. In tradition, we ordered pizza for supper and enjoyed being home as a family.

Our first few night have gone very smoothly so far! Addison nurses great all day and sleeps for 3-5 hour stretches at night. We feel so fortunate to be getting this much sleep already! Darren and I both keep asking ourselves why this has seemed so easy this time around.

Here's our little princess all dressed up...isn't she a little dolly???

Last night we gave Addison her first bath at home and she loved it. Not even a whimper.

Here is Landon and Addison after their baths:

We couldn't be happier right now that everything has gone so well. Darren went back to work today and so far so good here at home. There have been a few moments when I didn't know which baby to help out, but we've made it through!
Thanks for checking in on us!