First Day Home and a Bath

We finally arrived home from the hospital yesterday and are working on settling back into our lives. As anyone knows who has done it, it 's quite a change walking out your door, spending 3 days in the hospital and then coming back home with a new person. Things are going quite well. We are trying to adjust to much less sleep, constantly keeping our eye on the baby, and feeling like we are parents.

Here is Eleanor all swaddled up at home on the couch. She really likes being in this state and they taught us how to do it quite well in the parenting classes. We also watched the nurses do it in the hospital. It's too bad the MDs couldn't do it to save their lives and generally scrunched the blanket up around the baby like they were a ham roast.

Apparently Carrie took a picture of me napping yesterday with Eleanor. She seems to like me so far as I can tell.

We gave her her first bath at home last night as the water was too cold so she didn't enjoy it. Thanks to the stupid temperature indicator that came with the foam pad. I'm sure it involves litigation, etc... and them not wanting to be responsible for burning your baby. Nevertheless, i'll use my own hands to check the temp for the next bath so she can actually enjoy it. Needless to say, she now has the sweet baby smell of Burt's Bees. Thanks Burt!

Lastly, here she is sitting in the bath getting washed.