Olive May Leach - Day 8

1 week old today, and the sun came out. Having been rained on twice so far we played it safe and just walked up the road to Dulwich Trader. Sun hopefully seeing off the final remains of Olive's jaundice.

Lydia wanted to buy a diary to keep all madam's important events. I am currently keeping a detailed log of all O's feeds (left or right!) and bowel movements on scraps of paper. We decided I would go back and transcribe all this into O's diary but just the feeds so '4am - big poop' wont need to appear. These are the things midwives ask you.

We continue to be getting a decent amount of sleep - feeds at 7pm (Gina Ford special), 10pm, 2am, 6am, 10am. I get up, wake the mite who is dead to the world, swaddled tight like a worm with cute baby head. She is never awake. I undress her and change her nappy which usually gets her alert to say the least. Lydia feeds & burps her in her new nappy to keep her awake. I usually make bagels, toast or hot cross buns and tea. Important to look after mum. I put her back in her sleep suit, swaddle her and put her down. This can take an hour, but still leaves us with 3 hours kip before the next feed o'night. We are undoubtedly v v lucky.

In fact we have both noticed ourselves waking suddenly at 1.55am and 5.55am thinking 'what is it?' 'is Olive crying?'. She never is. We appear to have been trained to wake up every 4 hours, 5 mins before the next feed. A bit like Olive has been doing the Gina Ford treatment on us !! Weird, but clever baby.

Many thanks to everyone for lovely gifts. Lots of great clothes and we loved the 'Olive's first sunrise photo' from the O'Neills.