josieworld

And I got some more visitors today. I've already had three - grandma, uncle Ed and auntie Jen. And grandma even brought me some flowers and chocolate, but I gave that to mum and dad because I wasn't hungry.
Today Oma and David showed up. Oma got to have a nurse and she was very happy. Then grandma came back again, this time with granddad. But grandma didn't get a nurse, because the midwife now said no-one else could have cuddles with me until I had a good feed.
Talk about pressure. I want to have cuddles with my grandma but they won't let me until I get the hang of this breast-feeding caper. I'd better make more of an effort today.
Oma also brought me flowers, which we added to the collection. Because the nice people at mum and dad's work both sent me flowers, so my room is now looking like a florist (which I'm told is a place that sells flowers. I'll have to trust them on that because I haven't been anywhere else but this hospital yet).
But there was good news for grandma in the afternoon. She came back with aunt Amy and they both got to have cuddles with me! Excellent! That's because I was a godo girl and had a big feed in the afternoon. Then, just before dad went home, I had another one. Mum and dad were so proud of me and gave me cuddles.
I think I might have to make them proud more often.

Welcome to Day Two of my life. it wasn't so great as Day One, as least as far as mum and dad were concerned. But mainly it sucked to be me. That's because today was the day I started to get super-hungry.
I was sure mum, dad or someone was supposed to give me something to eat but they were taking their sweet time about it. Instead, all they kept doing was trying to shove this thing of mum's called a "nipple" in my mouth. I really didn't understand that at all.
At least not until later in the evening when I sucked a bit in a special way and some tasty food came out. I think mum and dad were expecting me to work that out straight away but I don't know why. Think about it; where I come from (the womb, derrr) food's magic. I just swim around and get all the food I need without having to do anything - it all comes courtesy of my good friend Mr Placenta (hey, when you're in a small room by yourself for nine months, you make friends with anything you can find).
So I didn't even have to open my mouth to get food. Now, I've been outside for just over a day and they expect me to have to work for my food straight away. I think that's going to take some getting used to.
So, because I was super-hungry, I was crying lots. I went from being a quiet sleepy baby who was perfect to a wailing ball of hunger. At least that's the way dad saw it, but I think he's prone to exaggeration, I wasn't <i>that</i> bad. Besides, it's not as though I can just tell them what's wrong, at the moment all I've got is this crying thing. Which, to be honest, seems to work quite well. If I just cry a little bit, mum and dad jump to attention and pick me up.  But I have to make sure I don't do it too much or they might cotton onto the trick. 

 

It's my birthday today. Even though I have to wait a whole year to get presents. That's because I was actually born today.
I came into the world at 11.14am today. My dad says it was really quick but I'm not too sure about that because mum seemed to be making a lot of noise, so it didn't sound very easy.
They even had to get a man to come in and put something on my head to help suck me out. I'm glad he came along because that made it easy for me to come out. I think mum was glad he turned up too.
Once I was out I had a lay down on mum's belly for a while before someone took me away to get weighed and measured and stuff. I was six pounds and seven ounces, or just under 3kg, so they tell me. That made me a little baby.
Then I got rugged up in a nice and warm blanket. It was so nice that I went to sleep. Mum and dad started taking photos of me and I was so sleepy that their flash didn't even wake me up. I hope I can put some photos of me here but that will have to wait until I come home with mum because dad isn't smart enough to know how to download photos off the camera onto the computer. Silly dad.
After a while, we moved into another room and there was a woan waiting for us. Dad said that was my grandma. She seemed really nice, even though she couldn't pick me up because the nurses said I had to have a big feed first.
That was a problem because I'd had a big meal before I came out so I wasn't hungry until really late in the night.
But before I could have a feed I had to learn how to do it. It took a long time and the nurses had to come in and show me how to do it. It's really tricky but I finally learned how do to do just before dad went home for the night.
Before he left mum and dad told me I had two more visitors, my uncle Ed and auntie Jen, but I didn't see them because I was asleep.
But mum and dad said that was okay. They like it that I sleep a lot and don't cry. They're very proud of me. I hope I can keep that up.