the first days at home

... were so exhausting. We tried so hard to do it right: getting up at night to feed her, then change her, then walk around to get her back to sleep. We ended up being up almost all night for the first 2 nights, when I decided to just feed her in bed. Oh, what a difference. We all could sleep again, while the little one just ate away. Now it was so much easier, at least we could get some rest in between the feedings - which there were many. Every 2 hours I needed to turn around to nurse her (but we gave up on the night time diaper change). But she is just so adorable, we call her our little munchkin