by jo | Oct 22, 2014 | Mi Casita
It’s all smiles this week do far.
Aydin is really looking at us now. Before his gaze would drift off but now he is focusing fully on ours faces which is wonderful. He has been crying less too and now I think I understand that he wants a nap at 8:30am or he will be cranky and that goes for other naps.
We started baby yoga on Wednesday which went as expected. Very little yoga, lots of breastfeeding. But it’s a start and it getting me out of the house.
by jo | Oct 21, 2014 | Mi Casita
What a success! I was terrified he would hate it but he loved it! Not a tear in sight. And he looked so adorable in that baby bath. I must admit I left it to grannie because I was too scared to attempt this myself, he just looked so fragile.
by jo | Oct 18, 2014 | Mi Casita
My boy is 2 months old!!! 2 months!!
Well this week was like a milestone to me, it felt like such a far of possibility, but suddenly it is here. Another month complete and again more struggles with falling asleep this week. Aydin is still not letting himself fall asleep easily, there is crying and screaming before any peace and quiet.
But on a more positive and ‘a make everything worthwhile kinda way’ he is smiling lots more. Nearly every morning he is giving us a glimpse of what a gorgeous little smile he has or will have when he does it more often (am I too hopeful?). At the moment I seem to catch him smiling with himself more than he actually smiles at any attempts I make at being funny (not easy being funny to a 8 week old).
This week was also Aydins first immunisation, why didn’t anyone warn me how heartbreaking this would be? My poor little one screamed so loud I was almost reduced to tears myself. What made it worse was having him screaming and then been given a second jab on the other leg. Oh and what makes it even worse still is that it will get done two more times in the next few months. 🙁 I will try not to think about this too much, but I am dreading it. As a consequence of these jabs his Friday and Saturday were spent mostly sleeping. He had a bit of a temperature which luckily went down by removing a few layers (blankets and pyjamas).
I spent more than half the week with a horrendous cough/cold which developed into all the symptoms in one day but thankfully looks set to disappear fairly quickly. Not before making me feel very miserable for the first time since giving birth and being pregnant. Frankly I can’t remember the last low. Being sick and having a little one demanding every bit of your concentration and attention is not easy. All I wanted was Hal to be with me all the time and to take over with the baby as much as a possible.
Anyway, to conclud this week was a bit tough on me but was made bare-able by my little ones lovely smile and by some serous tears when the going got tough. By the end of the week my low was over and my baby turned 2 months old.
by jo | Oct 12, 2014 | Mi Casita
The start of the week came with the first cold night so far, it has suddenly become clear that winter is indeed around the corner. The nights are closing in and I am very aware that the days are getting shorter and the inevitable gloom of winter is upon us. Though with Aydin in our lives I am sure this winter will be full of sunshine.
We had Aydins hip check up on Tuesday and thankfully it seems everything is ok after the initial worry that he was born with a clicky left hip. Luckily Juanchi took me to the hospital and back, I still find myself fearful of venturing out with Aydin. With no routine whatsoever I am so scared of ending up with a screaming baby on the bus or even in the street. Also finding time to get ourselves ready to venture out between naps and feeds seems almost impossible. I am still struggling to even run down and grab food between watching him, perhaps I over complicate things but my day goes in a flash. His baby gym arrived this week and though he seems to like it the interest lasts very little and after a few minutes he wants to be picked up.
So not a great distraction for him.
by jo | Oct 5, 2014 | Mi Casita
This week was one of great exhaustion, Aydin seems right on queue with the 6 week growth spurt.
My week has been a complete blur, I have done a lot of breastfeeding (more than the usual every couple of hours) and Aydin has done a huge amount of complaining and screaming. The days were spent carrying him because every time I put him do he wakes up, the evenings had at least one hour of screaming for no apparent reason. Luckily the nights were plain sailing, I can’t thank him enough for this. Hal has been amazing this week helping me out at night, though I worry how he manages the rest of the day at work after only a few hours sleep.
The silver lining this week has been the glimpses of his smile, they have been few, and never when I had my camera ready, but they have made the headaches from his screams worth it.
On Tuesday I spent the day with Ewa which was absolutely lovely. I got to leave the house and catch up with her, just the 2 of us for most of the afternoon. On Saturday we celebrated my mums birthday which luckily was a home cooked meal, as Aydi continued his evening antics.
Gosh, I hope we have got through the worst of this growth spurt, it breaks my heart hearing him scream, I feel like the most awful mama. And being so inexperienced it’s easy to feel hopeless.
Here’s to a calmer week ahead. 🙂
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| Aydin with grannie |
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| Aydin with a fluffy audience |
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| Grannie and Auntie Ewa |
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| 3 Generations |
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| Proud Daddy |
by jo | Sep 28, 2014 | Mi Casita
These first 5 weeks are a blur of happiness and adrenaline keeping us going.
I think the excitement of such a tiny perfect little thing being yours and the constant feeding are the clearest memory. Aydin has been a dream, sleeping most of the night with sleepy feeds every couple of hours, and I was worried he wouldn’t wake up to eat once home, yeah right!
The days have gone by so quickly with hardly a snippet of time for any of my needs, but then what did I expect? This is what having a newborn is all about. Forget showers, coffee, food or a pee whenever you actually want one. It’s more like a race to get any of these done in any instant you can put the baby down. Anyway, I can’t complain because I know with Aydin so far I have had it easy.
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| Look at those teeny tiny hands |
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| Can’t get enough of how small they are |
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| Well they do say sleep when they sleep. 🙂 |
by jo | Aug 30, 2014 | Mi Casita
Things have really come a long.
After a few weeks of unexpected and frustrating gestational diabetes, it was decided that my little one and I would benefit from speeding things up before he became too large to give birth to.
The date was set for a very unexpected induction (17th August), no more waiting till the 3rd September. With 3 days notice I spent my time walking, squatting, running up and down the stairs, drinking raspberry leaf tea, eating pineapples core and all. Anything to try and go into natural labour, my fear of inductions was impossible to shift, more so after experiencing the ‘quick’ but very painful cervical sweep. My efforts were futile and on Sunday 17th August I arrived at Chelsea & Westminster with the resignation that, as I had been warned, birth plans hardly ever go to plan.
With an initial double dose of gel administered I was free to walk around the vicinity for 5-6 hrs in which time the gel would either have started working or a second dose could be prescribed. Everything felt fine until the very end of this timescale when I started to feel contractions, these continued to increase and multiple hours after the gel should have worn off. Apparently my cervix was hyper sensitive and I was left with extremely frequent contractions that didn’t give me any recovery time in between. To make matters worse the gel was not ripening my cervix at all. I seemed to be stuck on 3cm for a excruciating number of hours.
In terms of pain relief I tried yogic breathing which worked to an extent, TENs machine again effective at the beginning but not when combined with entonnox (gas and air). Strangely having the entonnox seemed to make the TENs machine tingle extremely uncomfortable. The last resort was pethadine in the hope that this would provide a much needed nap and break from the hyper contractions. To my dismay the pethadine never provided the rest-bit it promised and my hyper contractions continued.
Luckily on the morning of the 18th August 2014 I was finally ready to push baby out and at 12:35 my bundle of joy was born and all the pain and discomfort was over.
I will never enjoy a shower as much as I did that day. White toast with marmalade and tea will alway be comfort food and success food in my mind after my labour.
My immediate thoughts were- amazement at my body which I will never critique again as it took over and did an outstanding job when mentally I felt incapable. It is incredible how our bodies adapt and handle such a difficult situation. I will be forever thankful for its natural instincts because I honestly had no clue how it did all it did. I will be forever in my mums and husbands debt for being with me and being so incredibly brave when things looked a bit difficult and messy. For not running out screaming. Finally, of course to the outstanding Chelsea & Westminster midwives who were so friendly, reassuring and patient. They were my cheerleaders and it’s thanks to them that I found the strength needed for the final pushes.
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| Welcome to the world my sunshine. Baby boy Aydin |
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by jo | May 29, 2014 | Mi Casita
Gosh this bump has gone from zero to HUGE! I am so large.
Where did you come from little one?
Where were you hiding till now?
How big are we going to get you and I? Just asking. 🙂
I'm Jo and this is my little place to record the moments I cherish of everyday life. I know I would never remember all these so at least this way I can capture them, and not only I but family and friends, can take a dip into the past when desired. 
