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Back to Our New Reality

March 29, 2011 /


After such a fun day on Saturday with family, Sunday morning was a lazy day for me, Chris, and Gracie Girl. Everyone was still at our house and would be coming back up to the hospital later in the day, so that morning we took advantage of the quiet for just the three of us to spend some time together.

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After a while, Gracie started to get sleepy again, so we sent her up to the nursery and Chris took the opportunity to head home, shower, and spend some time with Bean. I used that time to take my first shower. I’ll post later on how the entire repeat c-section has been on me and my body, but I’ll just tell you right now that the shower was awesome! After being poked and prodded and goopy for days, being clean was just about the best feeling in the whole world. Of course, taking the shower itself was tricky, but not nearly as hard as I remembered it was with Bean. Generally, I’m finding that to be the case about a lot of things. The second time around isn’t easy, but it definitely isn’t as hard as the first time.

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Once Gracie had napped and I had showered, I called for her back from the nursery and got her dressed for the day in one of Bean’s favorite outfits of hers. It has little ducks all over it and he has liked counting them since the outfit first appeared. Funny enough, this was one of Bean’s outfits from when he was in the hospital, too!

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Now that we were ready for company, the family came back up to spend the afternoon with us again. This time, we let Bean Man hold Gracie for the first time. It was quite possibly the sweetest thing that has ever happened in the history of the world. Really.

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Then the kisses started flowing and I thought I’d died and gone to Mommy Heaven.

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When Bean started getting a little rough, as almost-2-year-old-boys are prone to do, Chris took him on a tour of the hospital for a while to get some energy out. While they were gone, I snuggled with Gracie and told her thanks for being patient with her big brother. She said no problem. And then she demanded food in exchange for her continued cooperation. And that’s when I knew she was my daughter.

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Turns out, the hospital stay is just as much fun the second time as it was the first. Always someone to take care of you. Always someone to whisk away your baby when you need a little nap. Always food when you get hungry. And always family there to make you laugh until you think your staples are going to pop out.

Was that too graphic?

Sorry.

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But the next morning when they discharged us was pretty awesome, too. Finally being home with just our little family of four has been better than I could have imagined. We’re all tired and a little out of sorts and still trying to figure out how to do this, but it’s the best kind of organized chaos because it’s full of laughter and love and all things good. I can’t ever remember being this happy.

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