Elsie's Life to Date!

Well, we are having a very chilled weekend so I will take this opportunity to fill in a little of Elsie’s life to date!

Things have generally been going extremely well – she has been a real joy. She is breastfeeding, and has been pretty easily since day one. I did have those few days of looking like Jordan when the milk came in! But she seems to know what she’s doing, so I’ve been lucky and not had much of a struggle at all (I have to date failed to express any milk though, so that others can feed her and I can have a little more freedom – the one attempt so far with a hand pump resulted in a lot of pain and swearing and I haven’t tried again).

She is also sleeping remarkably well (frantic touching of wood!) She has recently been doing 5 hour stints followed by a feed and change, then another 4 or 5 hours – meaning that when we don’t have to get up early I am getting plenty of sleep. We recently all moved into the same room, up until this week Rob and I had been taking it in turns sleeping in with her as there didn’t seem to be much point in neither of us getting any kip, but that doesn’t seem to be an issue anymore - hooray for Elsie!!

She is now 11lbs 3ozs and growing rapidly – already too big for her newborn clothes.

This is a picture of Elsie the day after she was born - still quite squished and red! She was born with loads of dark brown hair in a mullet! Which is hidden under her very fetching hat in this picture.