Little Sister

Alaina Lynn Schwoch was born Monday, May 17, 2010 at 8:51am. She was 8lbs, 6oz and 20 inches long.

She came out crying and passed her Apgar test with flying colors (first score of 8, second score of 9.)

All clean after her first bath. She really didn't seem to mind her bath, especially getting her hair washed and combed.

Owen wasn't overly thrilled when he first met his little sister. We think he'll come around after thinking about it for awhile. He did really like the Thomas train Alaina got for him.

Alaina has been a very good baby so far (as they usually are in the hospital...) She cluster-feeds in the evenings and then sleeps in 3-4 hour spurts during the night. She weighed 8lbs 1oz on the second morning, and then 7lbs 13oz on both the 3rd and 4th mornings. She only lost a little under 7% of her birth weight which is completely normal.

We were discharged after spending 3 nights in the hospital.