Norah Lee Mann

Norah was born at 1:04pm on Thursday, October 2, 2014. She was 7 lbs 5 ozs and 18 3/4 in long. She's perfect! My c-section went well. I feel like I'm healing easier and more quickly than I did with Asa. I spent two nights in the hospital before heading home on Saturday afternoon. It worked out nicely as I got to celebrate my 35th birthday Sunday at home with my newly expanded family, my mom, and a visit from Tony's mom, niece, and nephews. Tony even baked his first birthday cake for me. :)

We're adjusting to life as a family of four at home and so far so good! Asa had a rough few days in the beginning- refusing to listen and not minding me or Tony, but he's doing much better now. He thinks his sister is pretty cute and has shown great patience when I'm busy tending to Norah. He pronounces 'Norah' with a latino twist- a little roll of the 'r.' It's pretty awesome. I'll need to get it on video before he corrects it.

Norah loves to sleep the mornings away, waking once for some milk before snoozing again until early afternoon. Our challenging times are around dinner time (as soon as dinner is ready and hot, she's ready to eat!), 9 pm when I'm trying to get Asa and myself to bed. She cluster feeds and I've been having to feed her continuously until around 10 or 10:30. Then, she wakes up around 1 or 2 am and does the same thing. Last night I brought her out to the living room after trying for over an hour to get her to go back to sleep. She slept like a rock in her bouncer chair on the coffee table and I got some much needed sleep on the couch. Perhaps she just needed a change of scenery???

I'll post more later, but below are Norah's newborn pictures taken by Bella Baby at the hospital. We've already filled frames throughout the house with these first images of our baby girl.