... during the first 30 days of being your mom.
Day 1. I love how alert you were but so calm at your birth. I will always remember how you showed us your large dark blue eyes for hours and hours that first afternoon.
Day 2. I love how you instinctively want to keep your arms and legs as close to your core body as possible.
Day 3. I love how today you are the tiniest you will ever be and I love how I'm not in a hurry to put the ounces on you, like I was with your older brother and sister.
Day 4. At four days old, I love how the only time you cry is when you have passed the 2 biggest gas bubbles and the quiet cries and grumbles when you wake up hungry.
Day 6. I love how we hardley used the swing at all this time and you aren't obsessed with the paci, thus far. You may want it once a day in early evening but you haven't shown a big affinity for it yet.
Day 7. I love that I never woke you up to eat, being the third child, I love knowing that you will be okay.
Day 8. More than anything, at day 8, I love how laid back you seem and the calm mom you have made me. I love that I'm enjoying every single second of your infancy so far, something I can't confidently say about the older two.
Day 9. I love how you mold to my body when I easily carry you in my left arm, while you are just under 8 pounds.
Day 10. I love how you barely spit up.
Day 11. I love what a great nurser you are and how it has been a much better experience this time.
Day 12. I love that your dad thinks I have become a pushover, making him the bad guy thus far, as he always has to keep you awake to keep eating.
Day 13. I love how I can't stop hugging and kissing you.
Day 14. I love your name - Delaney Cheryl and the meaning it had to my mom when we told her what it was just minutes after you were born, in the delivery room.
Day 15. I love your dark brown hair and how your dad and I use your tiny baby brush to comb the top forward into a little curl on top. Your hair color reminds us of Carter when he was born.
Day 16. I love how you stare at bright lights and sleep all naps in your nursery and all night in our closet. I bet you weigh 8.5 pounds today.
Day 17. I love the knowledge I have with you being my third child that when you recently started having three nights in a row of fussiness that I instantly knew to quit eating all dairy and we have seen a remarkable difference.
Day 18. I love your perfect tiny little ears and nose that I stare at while you nurse. Your nose reminds us of Addie.
Day 19. I love your first two weeks of life you struggle to be awake four-five hours a day when you aren't nursing or sleeping. Your "milk drunk" look makes me smile.
Day 20. I love your newborn baby stretches and the positions you put your arms in when you try to go to sleep after you have a full belly.
Day 21. I love how you prefer from day 6, to have your left arm out of your swaddle.
Day 22. I love how well nursing is going.
Day 23. I love how I feel like I can instantly calm you even if you are in so much pain because I forgot and messed up and ate way too much cheese. :(
Day 24. I love how serious you get, with your eye brow bones scrunched together, when you need to pass gas or poop.
Day 25. I smile with how mad you get, so fast, when you wake up hungry. I have to allow you to get a little mad just so you will stay up and eat sometimes.
Day 26. I love how we can tell your hair is already growing over your ears.
Day 27. I love how I think I am getting carpel tunnel in my wrist from holding you so much your first month of life.
Day 28. I love how your first smiles have been around Ya-Ya when she is talking to you.
Day 29. I love how we CONFIDENTLY KNOW that you have an issue digesting milk when I eat it and that I have the power to avoid it therefore make you a happy and easy baby.
Day 30. I love being your mom these first 30 days and person you have made me... much more at ease. I never would have thought I could just sit with you in my arms all day and night and not get that ansi feeling like I need to be doing things. What you have done to me, Delaney, is SIMPLY a MIRACLE (and I love it!)
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