Home from the Hospital

Our little Ezra Young is now 10 days old. We've been home from the hospital for one week today. It seems like so much less time. I don't know where all the hours in the day go. We've had some hard nights, but mostly we've had so much joy taking care of this little one. Every day is getting easier.



little "owl eyes" in his hospital bassinet

The nurses at the hospital were so helpful and loving; having a baby in Korea was a really good experience. One day when I was frustrated with breastfeeding, I started crying and the lactation nurse cried with me. It was really sweet and was good for me to have an experience like that here....to see how much she really cared about us.



We were a little bit nervous going home, considering every time he woke up needing to eat, I had to call the lactation nurses to help me. Fortunately, things got a little better the morning we left. It was a strange feeling to be at home for the first time with our son. Here we were with no real clue how to take care of a baby...all alone.





in his bed at home for the first time



Not 20 minutes after we arrived at our apartment, I was trying to feed him. I took all his clothes off of him except his diaper because it was pretty warm in our apartment. Right when he started to eat, the fire alarm in our building went off and there was a message on our speaker (yes, we have "announcements" in our apartment building. we never know what they're about.) Ryan went out in the hall and said it was smokey. I had to wrap Ezra in a blanket and run out. Since we live on the 10th floor, we had to take the elevator, because of my c-section. When we got outside all the residents were there and we saw that an apartment on the 5th floor had smoke pouring out of it. Firemen were already inside putting it out. We were outside about an hour waiting. Lots of our neighbors who have never spoken to us before, came to look at the baby. Praise God, Ezra slept through the whole thing! It was a good first day home. Everyone was kinda in a good mood outside and it forced a little bit of community, something that we often feel is lacking here.



sleep deprived and unshowered of 5 days waiting for the smoke to clear



recovering from the chaos back inside

It has been so good to be home. It's amazing how God gives you the strength to keep going when you have stayed up all night worrying etc. It seems like every time we feel like we can't keep going like this, He gives us a new burst of energy and golden moments with our son.