8 things Amelia likes:
Having one arm free from her bunny rug
Incey Wincey Spider
Feeding
Sleeping during the day
the Amelie soundtrack
Big-P saying “beep-boo” and touching her on the nose
Lying in the bath
Wearing socks

8 things Amelia hates:
Having her nappy changed
Being dressed
Being undressed
Sleeping at 2am
Wind
Getting out of the bath
Being woken up for a feed when she’s sound asleep
Going back to sleep after being woken up for a feed

8 things I am not so keen on:
Changing the nappy on a screaming, squirming baby
Feeding (oh LORD it’s hard)
Waiting for the next feed
Lack of sleep
Worrying about things I never thought I would worry about
Wondering if we should let her sleep or wake her for a feed or what
Loads and loads of washing!
The idea that Big-P will eventually go back to work and I will have to manage all of this on my own

8 things I love:
Our little girl
The smell of little baby
Sleeping for 6 hours straight
The occasional smile (or is that wind?)
A blissed out happy child after lengthy feed
Peeking into her crib while she is sleeping and marveling
Feeling her little hand curl around my finger as she feeds
Rubbing my cheek against her crazy soft hair

Last baby photo, I promise, but I did say I was going to show you her great disco hair… 10.30 am today. Sleep is good.

We’re home with our precious little girl! I am so exhausted and slightly delirious. I have 1 hour and 9 minutes before her next feed (if I’m lucky) so I had better go and have a nap, but in the mean time, here’s a little pic of Amelia at one day old. I am especially crazy about her disco hair (which you can’t see in this photo, more photos to follow soon). Thank you for all the lovely comments and warm wishes. My dad printed them out and brought them into the hospital for me and I will be sure to add them to Amelia’s time capsule.

For those who may be still wondering, Amelia Joan was born on Thursday October the 3rd at 7:55 am.

She and Mom are both doing very well and will be back home in a couple of days.

Thanks so much for all your warm wishes, Big P.

By this time on Thursday I will have had a little baby.

Big-P and I went on over to the doctor’s yesterday morning and he suggested that we should schedule a caesarean and get this little creature out into the world. How surreal. How very, very surreal.

How exciting and scary and amazing.

Not long now little boo.