New chapter

It's been a tough summer. Being pregnant while having a two year old was the hardest thing. These last few weeks were not easy physically and emotionally and the added stress of not having a finished bathroom was the icing on a crappy cake. But that's all over now. Our second daughter was born this weekend on august 21 at 10:05pm. She weighed 7 pounds 7 ounces and was 19.7 inches tall. We were so sure that we were having a boy that we didn't finalize on a girls name and when it was time to decide, A-man threw me a curve ball of a name. We had picked out Oliver for the boy's name, which was picked when we were pregnant with Eleanor so that wasn't hard but since he didn't like any of the potential girls names that I had picked out, he said we should name her Olive. Although it's a cute name, I feared that if she ends up being a chubby kid like I was, other kids would make fun of her for having a name fit her size, irrational but I just couldn't do it. Then he was no help in picking out any other name, it was Olive or nothing. Plus all the names that I had thought of just didn't work at that moment so we had to start from scratch. I kept looking up names while at the hospital but I only had less than 24 hours to decide and convince my husband. At 7pm, 4 hours before being discharged, he picked a name out of 4 new names that I had given him. So after the long and stressful decision we finalized on calling our new baby, Abigail MinJung! I could have decided on my own but I really wanted him to be apart of naming her, our baby and I'm glad we did. The name fits her because she's sweet and calm just like the name sounds.

I'll write a separate post about the birth story so let me say here that Eleanor has been a good sister so far. She doesn't like when Abigail is in her bed by herslef and wants me to pick her up and when she cries, Elle's the first one to run to her side. She's still a little too touchy to be trusted but I think she'll be a good sister.

Abby has been sleeping mostly all day and night so it hasn't been too hard so far. Knock on wood that continues to stay like this. The only problem with that is that my milk has already come in after one day and since she's not nursing often, I already have engorgememt. And it hurts!!!


Another thing that's different is that with a two year old in the house, life goes on as usual so from the moment I came home, I was on the move. The morning after being discharged, I woke up as usual, made breakfast, and tidied up the house. Only after a few hours of my normal routine did I sit down and when I did, I felt it. My body ached all over and when I did get up, I gushed a pool of blood and worried myself sick but it was just that one time and I learned my lesson.