With a trip to the registry office to give Beebe her official name planned for tomorrow now seems as good a time as any to reflect on how we’re doing. Although I’m currently typing with her held in the ant-colic position, or “Superbaby” as I’ve dubbed it which makes typing a little laborious.
She’s a little star, she sleeps pretty well and we’ve been getting most of the sleep we need to of an evening – she usually wakes up around 3 or 4am and again at 7ish for food which isn’t too bad. Chloe is breast-feeding but we’re interspersing that with bottle feeds of expressed milk and the odd mix of formula when the expressed stuff runs out which allows me to help with the feeding.
We’re still using disposable nappies for the moment as it’s just easier but have loads of re-usable ones of all shapes and sizes which I think we’re going to start using in a week or two. She’s already got through three packs of nappies and tends to need changing three or four times a day but I’m happy to change her so no worries there.
As to how she’s doing she seems quite bright and alert for an hour or two every day which is apparently normal, she’s got quite strong neck muscles and when hungry will wave her head around all over the shop searching for food, she’s managed to headbutt me a couple of times too! She may or may not have smiled as well but it could well have been gas (which she suffers from quite a lot). In all, she’s amazing and beautiful and we love her to pieces.
