Well, we had a baby on the 6th April. It was a boy and I'm told they are often more demanding. I can believe it. I've been thinking about starting a diary of our life with him but I've only just now got round to it.
A quick update then. His name is Abe and he was born pretty much bang-on the due date. That means he's just over 18 weeks old now. The first few weeks were pretty rough. I think my advice for prospective parents based on that time would be twofold:
* Listen to lots of people's advice and read as many books and articles as you can stomach, but don't decide in advance or fret about following any of it. Treat it purely as information gathering.
* Accept that there's going to be a 'culture shock'. I thought we'd adapt easily - being somewhat mature parents we'd had the chance to speak to and observe many other parents (mostly friends and family) - but it still smacks you in the head. Still, it's not that bad, and it does pass fairly quickly.
Right now Abe is upstairs being put to bed by his mum. Tonight he's quite upset and hasn't gone down easily - first he wouldn't feed because he was over-tired, then he went down and woke up again because, erm... well, it might have been his teeth. Oh yes, he's teething we think. He's been sucking his hands a lot over the last few weeks.
We have a routine. We've not leapt to make one but one seems to have evolved fairly naturally. He has a bath about 6.30pm and then goes up to our bedroom for a long feed. After that he goes into his cot next to our bed. It's a travel cot since he outgrew his Moses basket.
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