In the hospital

The time that we spent in the hospital was really nice. We got to spend time with Esme during the day and we got to have great sleep at night because we sent her to the nursery. Lots of books say that you should bond with your infant and that they should spend nights in the nursery with you. But lots of mothers told us to enjoy our last few nights of sleep. So we did. The food wasn't too bad in the hospital and they had great pain meds! :) I sort of think that we should just move in!

I was expecting to get some grief from the nurses for choosing to bottle feed, but everyone was really nice. No one made a big deal of it at all. In fact, all of our nurses were really great and supportive.

We got a lot of visitors in the hospital. Grandparents came again.

Grandma Jackie

Grandpa Rex

Please ignore the finger/thumb in the Grandpa Dan shot. :)

Grandma Barb

Jodie, Annika and Laurel stopped by and so did Eric.

Jodie and Annika

Laurel and Esme

Eric, Laurel and Esme

Karen and Kirsten came with Jack and Charlie.

Kirsten and Esme

Karen and Esme

Aaron's Aunt Terri and Uncle John stopped by.

Terri and Esme

Some Northwest Eye people stopped by too - Carol, Dawn and Sarah. We got flowers from Patty and family which was nice. She even sent flowers for Grandpa Rex and Grandma Jackie.

Dr. Sarkinen called to make sure that we were doing ok. She wasn't able to be there for the delivery because of a death in the family. But I thought it was super nice of her to call to see how Esme and I were doing. I was very lucky to find her as my doctor! :)

When we left, we were excited to get a picture with Colette since she spent the most time with us. But all of the nurses were super nice - Vicki, Colette, Sarah, Maria and Adele. Overall, we were very happy with our experience at North Memorial. We had heard good things and all of them appear to be true!