Life with a new baby

Marissa will be 4 weeks tomorrow!  Not sure what she weighs at this point (8 or 9 lb?), but definitely we are getting lots of milk in and pee and poop out. Her nickname for now is "Squeaky" as she makes a lot of those sweet baby squeaky sounds. :) She is so snuggly and just plain cute if I do say so myself. ;) We are cosleeping for now (I do have a pack n play w/ bassinet insert set up in my room, but mainly am using it now for diaper changes/safe place to set her down) as that gets her and mama the best sleep. She is up about twice a night to nurse. The biggest challenge for me lately is trying to make sure I can get enough into her right before we have to get in the car to take the older siblings where they need to go (preschool, plus after school activities). I just hate it when we get in the car and she is crying because she is hungry, but there is nothing I can do at that moment. :( But, I do feel it is quite an accomplishment to get 3 kids into carseats all across the backseat and get someplace on time! :) It does help that my older two are 7 and 4.5 and can mostly get themselves in and out, although I still have to hold hands and remind them not to just run off in a parking lot.

I THINK my bleeding may have FINALLY stopped (hooray!) which hopefully means I get a nice long break from that (PPAF came at 15+ months with the other 2). Stupid hemmorhoids are still bugging me too, and seems like those make it a bit harder to do #2 (sorry, TMI). I have some hydrocortisone cream from the hospital I am using, so hopefully that will go down soon. Plus, I am upping the fiber in my diet (raisin bran every morning!) to help too.

So far, so good on PPD. I had that with both of my first two (actually just a worsening of my clinical depression that I have all the time), but this time I am under care of a psychiatrist who is managing my meds so we seem to have found a good dose for me.
 
Marissa has already been exposed to a lot of sickness since she has been here.  Chris were both still gettting over colds when I went into labor, both kids (and my parents and sister and brother who came to visit) got some awful stomach bug with throwup/diarrhea/fever right after we got home from the hospital, and since then there have been more colds, including one Michelle has now and I think Marissa got a bit of.  Thank God she did not have that stomach bug though!  Another good reason to breastfeed!
 
Nursing is going well....she lost some weight after birth (was 6 1b 10 oz Friday at the ped's office after she was born), but by 1 week was gaining again (6 lb, 15 oz at 1 week).  I have not officially weighed her since, but my guess is that she is 8 or 9 lb now.  She is definitely making a lot of diapers for us to change!  We go for her next checkup on St. Patrick's Day. 
 
Big brother and sister are doing okay with adjusting, but are having a couple of issues.  Both have acted up a bit at school, I am getting a lot of "help me", "hold me", "I need a hug", etc. from them, and Monday night Michelle made a turd in the bathtub.  Gross!  But both are very loving toward their baby sister, almost TOO much...Michelle wants to hug her and ends up kind of laying on her.  But we are getting there, and Marissa is definitely a wonderful addition to our family. :) 
 
A few pictures:

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