Tuesday, April 6, 2010

One month old today.







Adelita is one month old today can you believe it! Please don't let the time go this fast every month.
Even though it has already been a month I am still in pain from the birth waaaaa. DH asked for some bedroom action about a week ago and I said "I am still bleeding, am still sore, have haemorrhoids and leaky huge boobs, still interested" he he he. Poor DH. He is very patient. I told him I would let him know how I felt after my 6 week post natal appointment, also see what the doctor says. My SPD has also flared up again after a very long walk last thursday to pick DS up from Kinder and then a couple of long shopping trips. I thought it had gone and would be gone by now. Anyway it is easier to manage without a big belly. Poor me. Nah I have this beautiful litt le girl to show for all the pain.
As for my little girl we had her 4 week check yesterday and she has gained 275grams and is now 4890grams or 10pd7 and 57cm long. So she is big but not the hugest weight gain in the world. The MCHN said most people expect babies born big to have huge weight gains but this is often not the case. Anyway she is beautiful and divine and I am in love with her little squishy nose and pushed in chin and roly poly thighs and sighs and grunts and her sofness. I did buy her some girly clothes and she has recieved some very girly clothes so is being dressed in a mixture of Dylan's old things and her new things. Oh how I love girl things. I have finished her nursery not that she is sleeping in it yet but it is all gorgeous and girly, but not too girly! When hubby has put up the blinds in there I will take a photo and post it.
Adelita loves sleeping in here ERGO sling that I got the infant insert for, I was going to use my Baba Sling for the first few months and then the ERGO but after using the baba a couple of times with her in it I realised it wasn't quite the right sling for our purposes plus she loves being upright and in the baba they lie down. So into the ergo she goes a couple of times a day and she falls asleep almost straight away. Our nights are going well too I wake as soon as she gets restless and starts grunting so she doesn't get a chance to cry, I have her all wrapped in a kiddopotamus wrap or a grobag wrap and I feed her still wrapped with no light on and I don't change her so she goes straight back to sleep, it is great why didn't I know how to do this with Dylan. I dread the day she leaves our room and into her cot and own room, have been thinking though maybe when that happens I might get hubby to take one side off the cot and do a sidecar type of thing with her so she is still in with me. Although our bedroom is quite small but it might work. She dislikes being away from me and being laid down in the pram the rocker etc. No smiles as yet but we are getting eye contact and some little noises, oh so cute.
Dylan is still struggling with the night time and going to sleep by himself and staying asleep by himself so he is needing hubby in with him to help him go to sleep and sometimes hubby goes in to help him go back to sleep or he comes into our bed. He had a lot change in the space of a small amount of time so I guess he is still getting used to it all. He calls our new place "new house" and our old place "home" so if you say "we are going home" you get told off and have to call it by the correct name, LOL.
Life as a mum of two is busy and hard but we are getting there.