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First 11 days with baby in the house have gone. We are doing good, and most nights Isabella sleep 4-5 hours in one go. Gives me a chance to feel pretty rested. She really likes to eat alot, and shes very good at it.  That result in a massive use of diapers in the other end. But it pays of. Sundhedsplejersken (healthcarworker) was here today, and she had gained 300 grams. So now shes 2850 grams. She got messured as well, and funny enough shes one cm shorter then she was at the maternerty ward, but they say thats pretty normal as they have to estimate some there.

We been at the hospital to have her heering checked, and after some problems getting a good reading we got one that sayed she was all normal. We did have to bribe the child with a bit of sugar water to get that result tho.

We have had alot of different guests, all wanting to hold Isabella, and in most cases she would let them and be in good mood about it. Only time she crys alot is when she is hungry, can’t pooh, or getting her diaper changed. Somehow she have figured out she wants to be hungry every time I want to eat. I have tryed to make a deal with her telling her that if she wants food she have to let me eat, for some reason she have not been listening yet. Im in the other hand is getting pretty good at eating with one hand and breastfeeding at the same time.

Yesterday we went into my work to show of. All my co-workers was very impressed with her and found her very cute. I don’t think anyone with sence would say anything else to a newmade mum, but anyway i choose to belive they all ment it.

The cats are not as freaked out as they was, but Lille my is trying to prove to me she can still be cute, even tho we dont have as much time to give her attention as we used too.

Monday it finally happened, my water broke at 3 in the morning, and after a very fast birth we got a little babygirl. Shes came out just perfect, screaming out loud right awey. Shes small, only 2550 by birth, and of course she lost a bit the days after. Shes 50 cm long, or at least shes was when she arrived.

The last days have gone by with getting to know her and have guests. Everyone is very exited and interested, but who can blame them shes great. Shes allready feeding well, and shes not to evil to her parents dureing the nighttime. She sleeps 4-5 hours, wake up and eat and then go back to sleep. Shes a very hungry little one, its like she trying to prove to everyone that even tho shes small theres nothing wrong with her.

She is a bit yellow due too neonatal jaundice, but she is awake, eating and alert. So in general a healthy little baby that does all the things a baby is suppose to do.

We are very happy parents to our little Isabella.

Today started a bit before 8 as most days do now. At that time I find it impossible to sleep more becourse of the strugle it now is move around in bed. Besides i might as well get used to not sleeping to much more then that. I have a feeling that i within the next cubble of weeks wont get the chance to anymore. Just to show, this is what I have to move from side to side.

So I did what I been doing most days the last weeks mornings. Watched bad morning telly and made chrochet. But today it happened, i finally finished my baby blancket, and just in time as well. I was starting to doubt I would make it. But now Im pretty happy with the result. Its the first thing in crochet I ever made and it took me allmost 3 months.

When I was done on with the blancet i decided something had to happen, so I asked my friend June to go in Tivoli with me. My pelvis is not to happy with me these days, so it was a bench to bench trip. Today it was very pretty in there, both flowers and animals of all kinds made it nicer. I had a really nice day in there today. I get restless very easy, so a long day out is just what I needed.

This poor little Duckmum was floating around with aproximately 10 chicks. It made me think that Im very happy that humans usually just get between 1 and 3 kids a time. She looked very busy in the water where the 10 chicks seemed to wan’t to swim in 10 directions. Made it har to get a good picture of the fast little buggers too.

One of the very nice parts of haveing a walk in tivoli is the colours, the gardeners in there must have so much extra work to make everything looks so green with the amount of water we had from the skys this summer.

Monday I was scanned to determin the weight of the little kangaroo inside me. I had invited my mum to come, and she was very happy with that. We tryed once more to make it show what gender it was, but this time it was the hands that was in the way. Its just a cheeky little one. And little is what it is, 2600g. It’s within normal weight but on the low side. Truely I don’t mind if it wont make it past 3500g before it wan’t to come out and meet the world.  

Im in week 39 now, baby is done coking in my belly and is just waiting in there and gaining extra weight. Im just waiting out here. Allmost everything is ready, all I need to do is to get the hospital bag packed so I dont forget essential things like camara and phone money.

It’s a bit odd to think about that im a mum within the next two weeks. Not sure I will really understand till im actually have the little one in my arms.  Im not really nervours, I bet the baby will get out somehow. Im so looking forward to be able to turn from side to side in bed, and be able to travel places that are more then 5 minutes from a toilett.

I been to lasy posting things this months, even though there have happened alot of things.

First of all I turned 30 the 7th, and I had a party for all those who could show up. Good food, good friends and a super famely that helped me arrange the whole thing. They all made a super effort to make it a fantastic day. It made me so happy. The weather was summer, and half the guests was sitting in the garden. I don’t think there is any way it could have been better.  I will use the oppotunety to say thanks once more to my family for all the help.

After comming home from that something very sad happened. one of our cats got very ill, and we had to put her down. She got a tromboses and her backlegs was paralysed, so in the middle of the night we went to the pet emergensy, where they could do nothing for her. She was only 4 years old. We still miss her, she was a very “talkactive” cat, who would tell us when we was suppose to feed her, pet her or play with her. So it’s a bit more quiet in the house after shes gone. Im just happy we still have the two other cats left.

We also got our washing machine working. It’s fantastic to be able to do landry when you want to without haveing to carrie it all down 5 floors, just to see that a only one mashine is working. So I been makeing ready, and one day I could not wait anymore and washed all the babystuff, it looked soooo cute when hanging to dry, that I had to take a picture of it. Now its all placed in drawers that will be close to where the diaperchangeing should happen. All that need to be done is to build the flat pack bed.

Today im going to have a ultrasound scann of the baby. They need it to judge the weight of the not so small scrimp and check that it is ready to make it’s arrival. Im pretty sure it is, I can feel the hormons go nuts these days. Small odd things allmost make me weep, and my sence of heat is totally out of order. For some reason I think I live in a sauna when everyone else feel fine. Im just happy that its not high tempature summer in Denmark yet. Lets just keep it like that the next week or two, then im ready to go out with my baby and my pram and enjoy the summer.