I know it’s Sunday only because the clock on my computer is telling me it’s Sunday. Things have gone pretty much as we expected them to. We took “Child Preparedness” classes and spent the last month or so watching A Baby Story and Bringing Home Baby on TLC. And we weren’t completely clueless to begin with.

Baby does the following and only the following: sleeps, pees, poops, feeds, cries. That’s it. You’re on his schedule and not the other way around. I think most people know this beforehand but it is hard to understand the impact it will have on you. Sleep is a luxury. Eating is a necessity, but the quality of the food is a luxury. You eat what you can, when you can.

We’re stuck in the hospital for at least another day. Maybe two. The room is tiny and with my cot folded out there is barely room to move around in it. Sitting on a cot doesn’t provide much back support. We’re both feeling the pain in our lower backs. It’s overcast so there isn’t much light coming through the window. With little interaction with the outside world, the odd hours we’re keeping, and the lack of sunlight, it’s really hard to keep track of the time…or even the day.

When Ashton smiles the whole world lights up, but at two days old, he mostly just stares at me or sleeps. When he sleeps one of us sleeps too. He’s having a lot of problems with gas, so he cries and screams through most of the night. It’s hard to take a turn sleeping when he is screaming. Not because of the noise but he’s suffering and you don’t want him to suffer.

We’ve posted some more pictures to Flickr and we’ll continue to post pictures there as we take them. (The updated iPhoto plugin lets us go from camera to Flickr in two quick steps–which is nice.)

I’ll try to post again later.

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