plus two weeks
Dear KB,
On saturday you were two weeks old! Two weeks! Where is the time going!! Your first week was not very exciting, because you spent most of it in hospital. Your second week turned out to be just as uninteresting for the first half, as I was readmitted to hospital with an infection, but once we escaped, we made up for lost time.
This week you have been on many outings in your pram and in your sling. Shopping, the doctor, a hospital, a park, the university, the supermarket e.t.c. You are a have-sling-will-travel-baby. You were transported on the trams and on the u-bahn. You sleep through most of these outings, somehow I think you are not too interested in this beautiful city that we live in yet. That will change I am sure. Yesterday afternoon, Papa and I took you into the first for ice-cream and along the way we listened to some outdoor music that was being performed as part of Fest Wochen. Of course there was some Strauss, because what is Vienna without Strauss?
This last week, we have being trying to figure out what causes you to be so “fussy” or generally unhappy in the evening. You are such a good, chilled baby the rest of the time. A few evenings now, you have cried unconsolably and you seem to be ravenously hungry, sucking furioursly on your fists and doing your little bird head shake. I try to calm you down by giving you more to drink and Papa tries to calm you down by taking you for a walk in your sling. That sometimes works, you go to sleep, but other times, you come back still hungry and still unhappy from your walk. Eventually though, you sort out your woes and drop back off to sleep.
The weather here in Vienna has been a mixed bag, so you have been out in a beer garden for an evening supper, and you have also been sheltered under gortex and umbrellas when it has been lashing rain and we were out with you. Neither seems to bother you. Though, sometimes in your sling, you get a little too warm.
Time is going by so quickly and you are changing every day. Already I notice you feel heavier in my arms when I feed you and you definitely have chubbier cheeks, I think your arms have become a little longer also, but maybe I am imagining it. I am fighting a constant battle to keep your face clean, you always seem to have sleep around your eyes, which I clean with cotton wool and boiled water. An hour later, there is more sleep. You still like your bath and during the week, your GG came to Vienna to meet you and she gave you a bath which you loved. You were very calm for her. She has the special grandmother touch of experience. GG tried teaching you to go to sleep without a walk or being held close to someone, but it didn’t really work, maybe you are too small for that yet. We will work on you learning to self soothe to sleep.
You still light up my world KB and I am having great fun getting to know you, even when I am completely exhausted in the middle of the night!
love,
mutti
