Sleep, what's that?

I seem to vaguely remember this concept called sleep. I think it's like a longer version of the night-time naps that Jennifer and I sometimes get in between bouts of Julianna's nursing and fussing. Seriously, in the last 4 weeks we've only gotten 3 nights of what could loosely be called a decent night's sleep, and one of those was because Grammy Voth stayed over, and up, all night with Julianna.

Jonathan had an issue with acid reflux when he was an infant, but Julianna's issue is much worse, causing her to spit up nearly every feeding (which in turn makes her want to nurse more) now. Jonathan almost never spit up. We've got an appointment for Julianna on Thursday with a gastrointasomethingologist, and hopefully they can shed some more light on the issue and what we can do to make it better, both for Julianna's sake and ours!

Jennifer's Heaven

She's here!

OK, she's actually been here two weeks now and I'm a bad dad for not getting on here an announcing her arrival as soon as it happened, but as I'm sure you can imagine life here in the West household has become crazy busy. Those of you on Facebook got a play-by-play of the events on the big day as they were happening though.

For those of you not on Facebook (and why aren't you?!), we were blessed with Julianna Lizabeth at 12:22pm on Friday, January 23rd. She weighed 7lbs, 3oz -- much smaller than we'd expected and nearly a full pound smaller than her big brother. At 19" long though, she was only 3/4" shorter than her brother. As with Jonathan, Julianna was born via c-section, and this time things went much smoother for Jennifer.

It may be hard to tell here, but she's actually smiling under that mask.

Here is Mommy meeting Julianna for the very first time.

My two favorite girls, relaxing back in the hospital room.

The following Monday we came home from the hospital and introduced Julianna to her new home, and her new room! It will be a while before she actually sleeps in her room though. For now, she sleeps with Mommy and Daddy, or rather, she keeps Mommy and Daddy up at night, haha.