Baby Bjorn

Like I mentioned in a previous posting, the past 2 weeks (with the exception of last weekend) haven't been easy. Jill seemed to have gone through some major growth spurt, which meant she wanted to be hold and eat the whole time and she cried a lot more than before. Luckily we have a book that describes what babies go through in such a period, and that it will pass! And it did because Jill has been back to her normal sweet self now for the past two days. It seems, after she has been through this growth spurt, that she all of a sudden has "woken" up. She looks at us more clear and guess what... she gave us her first smile (which I have yet to capture on film.. hold on). The book I mentioned also says you can play face games with the baby at this age. And indeed when we stick our tongue out to Jill she repeats it. So funny.

To make it through the past times of wanting to be with mommy (and not in her own bed) the whole time, we used the Baby Bjorn which Jill got from grandma and grandpa Diehl. Quite the invention, as it gave me some free hands and Jill was happy.


Notice the exhausted, haven't-been-able-to-go-to-the-hairdresser-in-weeks look!


Multi functional.. happy baby and happy plants.

Loosing hair

Jill has been loosing her pretty hair, which makes mommy sad. It will grow back, I know, and some babies even get born without a single hair (like myself), but she just looks so pretty and girlish with it.
She is loosing hair on the sides like an old man and might end up with a mohawk?? O no, punk baby.

Great weekend

Even though Jill had a rough week last week we had a great weekend with her to make up for it. She was super sweet and we even went to a furniture store with her. Also Jill came along together with Clover in the car for a nice walk in the woods!

The only times that were hard for Jill this weekend is when she had cramps. Here is mommy trying to comfort Jill during those painful moments.

Welcome Kaat

On August 11th Kaat Julie was born. Congratulations to Maurice and Hetty!

Jill's first meeting with Kaat.

Some days are..

better than others.

We have had a rough couple of days where Jill just wants to be held all day long. This fills up my days completely and thus I have no time to take a nap. On top of that I am a control freak so the spare couple of minutes I do have I tend to start cleaning up the house. Wrong! Because in general we have been very lucky with Jill during the night. I get two good stretches of 4 hours sleep. This has probably kept me up and running during the day, because I am not totally exhausted. The other night however (tuesday - wednesday) she kept us up most of the night. So Sean stayed home yesterday, partly because he hadn't slept and wouldn't be of much use at work, and partly to support me. I was just dead. So this taught me to take a nap whenever I can. But what am I doing right now while she is sleeping? Updating my blog..... Also last night she made up for it by sleeping 2x 5 hours.

So again in general she is a super sweet baby who really doesn't cry all that much. It is just sometimes so exhausting to never have a break. At those times I dislike breastfeeding because nobody can take over. Soon I will probably buy a pump so Sean can feed her from a bottle when I need a break. Also this will be good to get used to for when I go back to work (what am I thinking of right now?). Just like to plan ahead!

I am going to take a nap now.

Jill one month old!

Today Jill is one month old today. I can't believe how fast time goes by at the moment. Probably because my days are broken into 3-4 hours intervals between feedings and in the meantime I get to do some work done in the house. If you calculate the time of feedings and changing and playing that makes for a full work day (8 feedings of 1 hour each), but it feels so different and less exhausting than a work day. Because it is much more fun!

Here is a comparison picture of Jill at 4 hours old and 1 month old. She still fits the same outfit and in both cases she is held by grandma. When born she was 3570 gram, as of Friday she was 4025 gram, so a growing happy baby!

Look what I can do....

I can lift my head up!

Jill has been a strong baby since day one. Holding her head up and doing push ups is no problem for our little missy.