Let me out!!

I've been trying to write a blog for days now, but I have found myself consumed by feeding, washing, and cuddling, and each spare minute sorting something out in preparation for little man's furniture arrival on Wednesday, or to be honest, just staring at him.

We have all settled in nicely here at home. Phil has returned to work, and we have established another new routine for now. Daddy goes to bed early and gets up for the midnight feed, while mummy does the 3am and 6am ones. Daddy goes off to work and usually mummy and Jensen go back to bed for an hour. I've found if I can get this extra hour in the morning, I'm right for the rest of the day. Having said that, nurse Carmel is visiting tomorrow and the likelihood of returning to four hourly feeds is very high. This would be because we have a little porker in the house (complete with snort and all at the moment). Last week he put on 300 grams, so now weighs 2.61 kgs. He is having to be woken for feeds, so expect he'll do well with fourth hourly on demand.....This also means more sleep, and earlier nights for mummy and daddy!

I've been enjoying being at home and getting my bake on, which most of you all know how much I love doing. I've also been cooking more and got the old slow cooker out. Here's a picture of what I had going in the slow cooker earlier this week.

hehe, isn't he delicious??

Last Sunday, we all went for a little walk. It was a lovely sunny winter's day, and I commented to Phil that it'd be nice if the weather was like this all winter, I'd get out for a walk everyday, searching for my lost fitness, and just enjoy being out in the fresh air, after most of the year hibernating inside a hospital. It has rained everyday since. We've been housebound, as I'm not keen on trudging through the rain, with a pram I'm unfamiliar with and a heavy oxygen tank on my back. By Friday there was a spot of clear in the sky, so we swapped our tanks and headed out the door. This is no easy task as being connected to the pram via the oxygen tube makes manoeuvring quite tricky. I felt nervous, every minute I was out. If someone moved quickly toward or past me, I thought they were going to steal Jensen. I ate my lunch so quickly I gave myself indigestion as I thought if we were still for too long someone would see how cute and little he is and want to touch him. I almost gave myself a nervous breakdown. Clearly more practice is necessary, and the sunny forecast for next week appears to be the perfect time to build my outing confidence. Will keep you posted....

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