Don't forget your lunchbox, Gloom.

Sunflowers rock.

Also, AmyLiz, I've been meaning to tell you that one of my early b-day gifts was Bad Boys Of Summer (thanks again, Sail!) and I loved your story!

Aw. ::blushing:: I'm glad you liked it!

It's nice to have nurses on call and having someone bring you hot (if bland) meals

David, bring her food. We sent my in-laws out for Indian the next day. After hospital food, it was heaven.

Mmm. Korma.

Also, suggest to JZ that, if they have an LC on staff, she meet with them--I keep forgetting to suggest this to every new mother, but I found it incredibly helpful, and it probably saved me from some of the nastier problems that can crop up in the early days of nursing, considering I was dealing with flattish nipples and a tiny baby mouth.

Awwww, Fuck.

Matilda had to be taken to the NICU last night. She had bile in her stomach and had to have it pumped out. Apparently she swallowed some of her own mess in utero while doing her practice breathing before she was born.

Matilda was getting fussy and distressed last night so JZ called the nurse to bring her over to the bed. The nurse patted Matilda on the back and some dark mucus came up. They took her to the nursery and she vomited some more dark stuff. So they took her to the NICU to get her stomach suctioned out. JZ went down there at 2:30am and held Matilda while they did the procedures and stayed with her until 5:30. That's not how you want to spend the night after you've had abdominal surgery!

Poor little Matilda, that's a fine welcome to the world. And poor JZ being up all night and moving around after a C-section.

So I'll make it back over there in time for rounds and hear what the doctors say. Night nurse said there's a good chance she'll be released back to us today since the stomach was suctioned twice and sonogram shows no intestinal blockage. So it looks like everything's out that needs to be out and I hope that is all the problem that's going on.

Oh, no, poor Matilda and JZ. I hope today is better. Much, much better. Poor things.

Poor bairn. She's got enough going on, what with the whole new big world and such, without having to have a tummyache on top of it.

Oooof. {{{{Matilda, JZ, & Hec}}}}

Happy Birthday, Nicole

Added {{{Matilda & family}}}

David, bring her food. We sent my in-laws out for Indian the next day. After hospital food, it was heaven.

I got JZ food, but she wound up puking after coming down from the anesthesia. But yeah - I'm conscious that hospital food doesn't have to be the only option.

Also, suggest to JZ that, if they have an LC on staff, she meet with them--I keep forgetting to suggest this to every new mother, but I found it incredibly helpful, and it probably saved me from some of the nastier problems that can crop up in the early days of nursing, considering I was dealing with flattish nipples and a tiny baby mouth.

JZ's got some of the same problem, though she was able to get some colustrum up (which surprised in a "Hey! Look what my breast is doing!" kind of way) and Matilda was able to root around on the breast a bit. They do have a lot of breast feeding resources in-house there, that we'll take advantage of. La Leche League is right in the basement.

I expect Matilda will be hungrier and more interested in breast feeding now that her stomach is empty.

Matilda had to be taken to the NICU last night. She had bile in her stomach and had to have it pumped out. Apparently she swallowed some of her own mess in utero while doing her practice breathing before she was born.

Oh, David! Poor little girl! Fingers crossed hard that they hand her back to you ASAP, all right and tight.