plus one week
Dear Koalabear,
Yesterday you were one week old. Your mama wanted to post then but she was feeling very unwell and is now back in hospital with mastitis. Moo! Your mama has changed in the last week, she is a milking machine.
This was a very big week for you, so much to be done. Firstly, there was the tricky business of being born, which you came through with flying colours. You arrived open eyed and quietly alert. You looked around at what was happening and met your Papa and your midwife and the doctors. Then you met me. You were placed on my chest. You smelled like straw and your head was shaped like a cone after being squeezed through the narrow passage!
For the first few days you were very sleepy. You were not very hungry either but you helped me by waking up when I rubbed different parts of you, and despite being so sleepy you scored ten out of ten for latching on and you are now drinking like a pro. You had even started to gain back your birth weight by the time we left hospital.
When we got home, you adjusted very well to yet another strange new environment. You don’t seen to mind sleeping in your cot or your pram or on Mutti or Papa.
Speaking of Papa, you love listening to him talking to you and you watch him very carefully and listen to him. Your Papa has been great this week looking after us and cooking for me and being my gofor especially when I was feeling so weak and ill from the mastitis. We would have been lost without him.
You went to the park this week and the university campus nearby and also on a shopping expedition to get paint to make footprints. You also went in a few trams and had your first trip in a car. You are not a huge fan of your car seat but once the car moves, you become quiet and try to figure out what is going on.
You are generally a very chilled baby, just eating and sleeping and watching things quietly, but sometimes you get into a tizzzy and cry unconsolably. Your papa discovered that what you want then is a walk in the sling so you can be reassured by the movement. You love your sling.
You have changed my world KB and I love and adore you. Of course I am a biased mama, but you are just too cute not to adore.
love,
Mutti
