Nancy visit 17 days old

we sort of cheated. we're not supposed to go back to see nancy for 6 weeks, but it's weird to go from seeing her every week. to having her deliver your baby in your home to then not seeing her for 6 whole weeks. especially when she's the person who's been hearing every intimate detail of your pregnancy and preparation for the baby to come. then suddenly you're just on your own. SOOO.... we went to see her today.

we still had the tub and i wanted NOT to be a tub-hoarder as some people are. but nancy really wanted us to be sure to paint on the tub. so i spent some time last week getting sabine's name and information on the tub. it says SABINE Full of Grace with a sunflower on it because katie brought sunflowers when she was born, and sabine was born into the sunlight of a sunday. and then below that i painted : Sabine Margaret October 12, 2008 Born into the love of Sarah and Max.
here she is with the tub. ignore the crazy eyes we couldn't get one where she wasn't bugging out of her head.



when we brought the tub back i asked nancy if we could just bring Sabine by to weigh her. she sleeps so much and sometimes i'd have to wake her to eat that i wanted to be sure she was gaining enough. nancy'd told me that as long as she's gaining it's ok if she sleeps, but if not we'll have to wake her.
so today we went over to nancy's, stripped sabine down and put her back in the scale nancy had. when we last weighed her two weeks ago Sabine weighed 5lbs 5 ozs. Today.... 6lbs 14oz almost 7 lbs! hooray. you can tell by looking at her chubby cheeks, but i wanted to be sure. so that means since she's gaining well, she can totally sleep as much as she wants and i don't really have to worry about waking her up. nice.

nancy told us ' you have the baby everybody wants. the baby that sleeps well and eats well' we are incredibly lucky i assumed. nancy also credited us with having a very easy pregnancy with low stress and a fabulous birth including the music that all helped to ease sabine into this world. whatever it is, i'm grateful. because at this point i'm not nursing 24/7 and we're getting 8 hours or so of sleep a night (in two shifts) and aren't up for hours at a time with a screaming infant. she is quite simply an easy baby. only fussy when she needs to poop or is trying to throw herself to sleep.

at the end we gave nancy the check from our insurance. why does insurance think that homebirth is only worth $1500? i just wonder how much they would pay for hospital birth? we talked about the craziness of it all that the insurance doesn't cover nancy's full price and we're left to cover it. whereas a few years ago they would've covered all but about $50 of it. now we had a bit more than $50 to pay. BUT totally worth it! i just wish it was in the covered care by our insurance and EVERYone's insurance. i could go on about that forever but what's the use. maybe the next president will fix all this.... or is that just wishful thinking.

in happier news. we really knew sabine was gaining weight (just wanted to be sure it was enough) just look at those cheeks!!!
these are from her chillin in her crib this morning....