Kyla's First Video!

Starting her video career young at age 4 days!

Settling In at Home

One of the other nice things about the birth center is that you get to go home as early as 4 hours after birth! Some think this is crazy, but many second time moms tell me they would have loved to get out of the hospital earlier. We stayed at the birth center for about 16 hours, because we wanted to make sure that Kyla's bilirubin levels stayed down and we didn't have any repeat issues like Arden's situation after birth. With scheduled pediatrician visits the next day and home visits for mom in two days, we had the green light to get home and start settling in! Yay! I had already missed Arden and was eager to see her and get to know Kyla. The next couple days were filled with lots of napping- well at least on Kyla's part! Visits from family & friends, and some serious sister snuggling. Arden is totally enamored with her little sister and asks to "hold her in boppy" all the time. She's started trying to give her kisses and teaching her what she calls "om hands" in prayer position. So cute. I think she's slowly learning that "baby Kyla" is going to be here for good and she's ok with that.

Arden Meets her Sister!

So after a blissful night in the birth center, my parents brought Arden to Chapel Hill in the morning so that she could meet her sister we'd be talking so much about. As any parent of two I'm sure can attest, you're a little amped up for this moment, but at the same time worried about how your first child will react. Arden did great. Mom & Dad (aka Noani & Poppi) prepped her on the car ride over and I think she was happy to see Dave and I. After a quick kiss or two to her new little sister, she was back to being a typical 2 year old and wanted to play with the birth ball that was now in the tub. Or go outside. Yup, that's a 2 year old for you- all this build up for 9 months about becoming a complete family and she wants to go outside.