Two weeks old

Today Sierra is 2 weeks old. Yesterday, Thursday, we went to the clinic for Sierra to have a weight check. We were happy to find out she is 6 lbs, 1 oz, with an average daily weight gain of 44 grams! (goal daily weight gain at this age is 20-30 grams, so she is doing great!) Still petite, but growing well. She is a good eater, sleeper, and pooper - all the basics are down pat. She also loves taking a bath - she's going to be a water baby just like her brother!



My life has simplified the last two weeks. From all the chaos that is life as a med student and a mother with the addition of preparing our house for the market, I have now transitioned to relaxed mother-of-a-newborn responsibilities like holding, feeding, burping, bathing, and diapering - and that's pretty much it. Thayden still goes to school most days, we have a cleaning service come every 2 weeks (a splurge only because we want to sell our house!), and my freezer is full of homemade food I only have to heat up to serve. I am a very goal-driven person, but for the past two weeks I have kept my expectations of myself minimal. Although in the past I would have driven myself crazy and felt remarkably unproductive, even depressed, I think I am OK with it right now. (One could argue this blog is evidence I'm not OK with it, but in any case...) In the near future I am going to get up enough motivation to make progress on some research, but in the mean time I am going to enjoy the simplicity.