Lillian Laursen Zollinger is not only here, she's 10 days old!

By now I'm sure all of you know that Miss Lily arrived last Thursday afternoon at 12:32 pm. It was a long 2 day process, but as nature intended she's finally on the outside. I don't want to go into deep detail about the labor process, but the highlights would include 3 epidurals (so much for trying it natural), dialating from 7 to 10 cm over a leisurely 13 hours, lots of pitocin, talk of a c-section, and then 2.5 hours of pushing. My hat's off to all the women of the world! I do believe until you go through this you don't appreciate the true accomplishment of bringing a baby into this world. There is no way Lily would be here without the help and support of Ben. Our plan for him to coach me stomach and up went right out the window. It was only him and 1 nurse (who's bedside manner needed a fine tuning) until the grand finale when the Doc got there. Wouldn't you know of the whole team that was with us Wednesday through Saturday the one lady I didn't like at all was my labor nurse and let me point out that was well before I was in grave pain. Oh well! Ben was very involved and did such a great job. He helped make up for the less than supprtive attitude of the nurse. I am truly grateful that I have such a wonderful husband.


Ok, stop talking about that and on to Lily. She is the most fantastic little girl we ever could have imagined. We never dreamed we'd be blessed with such a beauty. Not only is she beautiful she's healthy, heavy, and what a personality! We feel bad because as new parents we are all in this experiment together and Lily is the guinea pig. On Friday night we had a meltdown and she would not stop crying. Eating, clean diapers, rocking, singing, nothing would soothe her. We finally realized it was gas and Ben raced to Walgreens just before it closed at midnight to pick up Mylicon drops. I remembered his sister, Jami, had told me they were a lifesaver. Jami you are oh so right! Since then we've realized that my over consumption of dairy products may be to blame. So no more milk, cheese, or ice cream for Suz. I don't mind giving it up. I'm going to fill in the dairy blank with a nice calcium supplement and that's that. Hopefully, no more uncomfortable Lily. I know she'll come around.