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Recovering from Recovery - April 18th, 10AM to 3PM
After Tara left, we crashed out hard. An indeterminate time later, though, we were awoken by some visitors. My Aunt Barb, Uncle Char, and cousin Stacey had heard (or read) that the child was born and came by to visit. My recollection of their visit is hazy at best. I think Celerity was out of the room at the nursery. We said hi, everything is fine, can we please sleep now? It was nice to see family, and they brought an excellent crocheted baby blanket and some hand made burp cloths.

At some point Celerity was wheeled back in and, around 2pm we decided to give feeding her another shot. It took some coaxing, but we were finally able to get Celerity to open her mouth wide enough to accept a breast. We had no issues getting her to feed off the left breast, but the right breast continues to give us some trouble to this day.

Finally get some sleep for crying out loud - April 18th, Evening
I toddled off to get something to eat at the cafeteria, but Dodi was still stuck on a liquid diet. She had to drink her meals until she was able to . . . uh . . break wind. When you have a baby, your entire digestive track pretty much shuts down, so you have to wait for it to get fired back up before you can take solid foods. One of the indicators that it is functioning again is the production of waste gases. It wasn't until the following evening, Saturday, that she . . . produced waste gases. Never have has a woman been so happy to toot. Broth is just not that filling.

That night I slept on the dreaded pull out couch of doom. Imagine, if you will, a booth bench for a restaurant with a decent amount of padding. Imagine it being about five feet, ten inches long. That was pretty much it. It pulled out a bit, so it was fairly wide, but it was between two walls, limiting its length to about 2 inches too short for me to stretch out. Three nights on this little torture bed gave me cyatica so bad that on the night I got back from the hospital, I couldn't get out of bed.

The rest of the time - April 19th to April 21st
On Saturday morning, Dodi was able to get up for the first time. With the assistance of the nurse she was able to stand and shuffle around with some pain. By the end of the day she was fairly mobile and, by the end of our stay, was fully, if slowly, mobile.

On both Saturday and Sunday I made trips home to upload pictures and post updates, as well as grab needed items. We had not planned on a C-section, only having packed enough stuff for two days. I picked up some extra clothes for myself and some stuff Dodi wanted.

There is not much else to tell. Or, if there was, I've forgotten it. In general we had a very restful few days in the hospital. We had no complications, no real problems - we just chilled out while Dodi was recovering. I read a sizable Sci-fi Novel over the entire weekend that I finished Sunday.

On Monday we were ready to be discharged. Dodi got the staples taken out from around her stitches, we filled out some paper work, and they wheeled us to the door.

Here is us unloading Celerity from the car:

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I took a couple of more videos that I have finally gotten around to uploading to YouTube.

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