Things starting to fall into patterns here which is good altho' midwives keep suggesting we change them. First she wasn't feeding enough, now they want us to try and space the feeds out a bit more ?! This does have some advantages - moving from 3 hrs to 4 hrs between feeds does allow you to get more done and leave the house a bit more . . . altho' Olive has other ideas and appears stuck at 3 1/2 hrs but we can live with that and try and eek it out a little longer.
We managed a family Easter meal (see above).
She really has grown lots in just 2 weeks. She put on almost 10% in the first week and its easy to see her beginning to fill the moses basket. She also now fits in some of the clothes we had bought her - hence shots of her in her retro Green Baby 'romper suit' that I bought for her ages ago.
The novelty of nappy changing has started to wear off - we no longer stare at the poo, trying to guage its colour against the NCT factsheet !
I quite like that our o'night routine hasn't changed. I still get up at 2 and 6am to change the nappy before handing O to Lydia for feed time and then come downstairs and make tea and crumpets/toast/bagels etc. Thankfully I snuck out for a run this morning at 8am as my butter intake was starting to show !
I've noticed that Olive stares quite intently at me as I change her nappy which I've decided is partly because of my glasses. I have 2 v different pairs of spectacles and as her eyesight is not that detailed I am probably just a walking pair of specs to her. In fact I think she thinks she has 2 dads so I tend to keep thick black frames for nasty, wakes me up in the middle of the night to change my nappy dad and keep the the silver frames for nice, cuddles & plays with me, daytime dad !? I do think if Lydia (or anyone) put my specs on, Olive would get v confused.
I have managed to finish my little garden raised beds project. Spinach and brocolli planting to start soon when Julie Stone arrives next week. (see above)
Lydia is upstairs talking to Olive. She has little half conversations where she leaves spaces for O's replies. Its rather nice to listen too. This morning at 6am I joined in as Olive was looking at the big animal faces book that we had put in her moses basket.
Lydia: What Olive ? What has chicken been upto ?
Olive: nothing, maybe a gurgle
Robin: Really Olive ? Chicken's been in an accident, broken her wing ?
Olive: nothing, maybe a gurgle, or sneeze
Lydia: But the vets coming around later today ?
it can go on for hours, we're hoping to find out how chicken is doing tomorrow.
Happy Easter from all at Pymers Mead.
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