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Our first night with our baby boy I was on a total high. I was just so happy that he was finally here. Crew was such a great nurser! I had a bit of a struggle and chose to use a nipple shield. I used that for the first month I think (no later than that).

My grandparents (Gary and Pat) came to visit and brought him the cutest little stuffed bear.

The next day we were ready to go! Especially once nurse Allison left. We had a certain nurse who shall remain nameless who had us excited to get home. We attended a dumb little class on some basics, it was nothing we didn't already know so we left early (we used Crew's small whimper of a cry as our excuse to leave).  I took a quick shower, we filled out some paperwork, and we were ready to go. Damon went and grabbed the car seat out of the car and we had a little bit of a struggle getting him in there but we did it and were off.

I was honestly surprised of how physically comfortable I was. I mean I obviously was pretty tender, but I expected a lot worse once the epidural wore off, Tylenol and Ibuprofen did just fine for me.

Damon and I left with our tiny little baby in the back seat. He was pretty scared to drive, it was cute. We were starving so we took a pitstop at Red Robin. Everyone was pretty shocked that we took him out at a day old but I felt fine with it. Its not like I was passing him around to the waitress and busboy. He just stayed in his little seat covered or I held him. No big deal.

Once we got home (to my parents house) it was such a sigh of relief. We had some visitors (Kari Ali and the boys) and got all settled in. My mother was a great help and Damon got to take a few days off work. Sleep was minimal but we were so in love so that didn't matter.



03.08.17