"The first couple of nights at home with Elizabeth were rough."

Saturday, July 6, 1991

     The first couple of nights at home with Elizabeth were rough.  It was 4 or 5:00 in the morning before she went to sleep.  For one thing, they bathed the babies at midnight at the hospital & I think she was expecting that.  Also, we didn't have any receiving blankets to wrap her in & she was probably not warm enough.  It sounds silly now but at the time it's what we thought of - we wrapped her up in one of Guy's t-shirts.  We also put her little hospital cap on.  But for whatever reason, she wouldn't go to sleep.  Guy walked her around for the longest.  I tried to nurse her, then pumped and let Guy feed her with the syringe.  Like I said, it was a rough night.

     Tues. aft. 4/23 Deanna came over & stayed with me while Guy went to get some blankets and other things for Elizabeth.  Kathy Dotson came by that afternoon too.  I tried to nurse Elizabeth when she got fussy but she just fell asleep.  Kathy & Deanna both had brought some hand-me-downs they'd gotten at garage sales plus Deanna brought some from her brother & sister-in-law, including a couple of blankets.  So Elizabeth slept better the second night but she was up a lot, too.

April 1991

     Thu. 4/25, Sue flew in from DFW to visit.  We left the house about 30 min. before her flight was due.  As we got to the interchange I saw a plane & said "I hope that's not her plane" & Guy said it was too early.  But it turned out that her plane was early.  We went down toward the gates but they were only letting people with tickets through so we headed back to the central area to wait.  We'd looked on the screens for her flight but there weren't any listings for the airline she was on (American?)