Celebrate! Unity

Unity is ready for her first outing.

Posted from my mobile device

Today makes Unity one week old. Umbilical cords, baths, pooping in new diaper, relationship issues with Babelle, meeting new Dr. and family members, watching James Bond and bopping to Sigur Rós amongst many other fun moments have made the first week of Unity's life on the outside quite an adventure for her.
Yesterday Auntie Beth and Auntie Margie came to visit from NJ. Unity had a very fun time with her fashionably, Ivy League, rock star auntie's. It was good to see Beth and Margie and we all had a good time. I am sure Unity will be going to her aunties for all her fashion needs.
Today we bottle-fed Unity for the first time. Of course we are using only breast milk compliments of the pump. This gives daddoo a chance to have snack-time-bonding with Unity. She has accepted the bottle without complaints and still likes the boob.
It appears that her umbilical cord will fall off today. Wahoo! This means real baths and no more worries. She will lose her cord only after 6-7 days.
Babelle and Unity have started repairing their rough start relationship and we actually caught them sleeping together.
So far Unity has been a great baby. She sleeps on a consistent nightly schedule and is calm and very observant as long as she is not cold. She also loves to have her hair washed.
I will try to post another entry tomorrow and will post via my mobile phone so more frequent entries will appear.

On Monday morning at 2:00am we brought little Unity home. She has been having her fill of crying, pooping, eating, and keeping us on our toes. Our already busy schedules have clearly been put on hold for our new busy schedule.
Unity has been demonstrating different personalities every day and we are anxious to figure out which personality will stay for good. Yesterdays personality was a bit loud but today she is more calm and enjoying the little things around her. She definitely likes music and walking in and out of light.
Babelle is having a tough time accepting a valid contender for most noteworthy attention addict. But he is coming around slowly and we are sure Unity and Babelle will become best pals. Negatively, Babelle has taken to puking all over. We are not sure if this is a demonstration of protest or if he is actually sick. I think he is demonstrating..
Unity sleeps very good through the night so far with only waking us up about twice for boob and diaper. If she continues on this track we will be happy mommy and daddy.

We have been very busy and posting on the blog is always an "almost". Unity clearly knows when its time to post and without fail, will stop us from doing it.

At 10:29pm on Saturday April 11th little Unity finally decided to meet Jessica and I. We left our house at 9:35pm, were admitted at 9:45pm, and were in the Alternative Birthing Center (ABC) at 10:04pm. 25 minutes later, Unity joined us. We were relieved at how fast the delivery was. Especially Jessica!
Mommy and baby are in great health and beautiful! We are still at the hospital keeping a close eye on Jessica and are hopeful we will head home tonight.

Welcome Unity Calla!
8.2lbs
just shy of 20" long

Well today Jessica and Unity are officially overdue. I guess Unity is not ready to experience wet, cold, touch, poop, human outside yet.
We are anxiously waiting for her big moment, especially Jess!

Late baby = bigger baby = harder labor = not happy mommy!