Day Two!!

Today was a busy day at the hospital! We had many visitors throughout the day again, including Grandpa, Linda, Bonnie, Grandma, Marc, Grandma, Dave, Aunt Shell, Aunt Jenny, Grandma and Grandpa Davis, Craig, Mandy, Alice, Derrick, and Angie. In between all the visitors, we tried to get a little rest, but also had many of the doctors and nurses around to check on Olivia and me to see how we were doing. We did have a pretty good scare this morning when Grandma and Grandpa Davis were visiting. Olivia had quite a bit of mucus in her lungs that she was still trying to get out, and she was gagging quite a bit while they were there, which made Mom freak out. We called one of the nurses in and she was able to work with her quite a bit while Mom tried to calm down. She actually took her back to the nursery too to work with her some more...and more for my benefit as well, so I didn't have to watch her go through it. Boy am I in for a rude awakening...I was crying over something like that that is so common! However, to give myself a little credit, she was not even a day old yet, so I was still trying to get the hang of the Mommy thing! After that scare, she was back in the room and was better than ever. Throughout the day, we were taught quite a few things like how to give her a bath, take care of the umbilical cord, how not to shake the baby (video), etc, etc, etc. It was quite overwhelming and to be honest, I don't remember half of what they told us. The pediatricians came in a few times to check on her and everything seems to be doing okay. They ran a number of mandatory tests on her, some of which I didn't know anything about. They tried to explain it to us, but again there was so much information thrown at us, that we somewhat took their word for it! We figured they do this every day, they must know what they are doing. I was doing a little better and actually was moving around quite a bit. Getting up and down was the hardest part, but once I was up or down, I was doing okay. It was another long day at the hospital, and we are just looking forward to going home!!