I'm a keeper

The picture says it all.

First smiles

Sarah started smiling on Friday, May 7th. I had been taking her to the mirror in our spare bedroom and trying to get her to smile for a couple of days but it wasn't until my sister came that she started! Boy was she cute! Now she smiles all of the time. She will even stop breast feeding to smile. And any time you are are looking directly at her she smiles. It's so fun!

No longer midwife clients

Sarah and I were discharged from our midwife yesterday. We are both doing very well. Sarah went from 6lbs 9oz to 10lbs 2oz. She was 51cm when she was born and 55.5cm yesterday.

It was a little sad to leave. So much has happened and it was such an amazing experience. It's funny, if you had asked me two years ago what my birth plan would have been I would have said: I’m having my baby in the hospital, with drugs, likely by c-section and with a doctor. What else is there? But, the exact opposite actually happened. We had a midwife, a doula, and a drug free home birth. Crazy! I couldn't be happier with the choices we made.

Sleep

I am very happy to say we are getting enough sleep. It's a team effort. Last night Sarah let me sleep for 4 straight hours. It was blissful. She generally goes to sleep around 10 or 11 with Daddy. Then when she wakes up for her next feeding I take her for the rest of the night. We have discovered she really doesn't last long in her bassinet so to get the most sleep she sleeps in bed with us. I'm not sure how long that will last but I'm not going to get too worried about it. Everyone in our house gets at least 8 hours of sleep a night. Not too bad with a 5 week old.

It's funny, before we had Sarah I said no baby was ever going to sleep in my bed. How things change.

1 month

On April 17th, Sarah was one month. She is becoming so much more alert and really enjoys being a part of things. We had some friends over the other night and we were all in the kitchen talking. I had her up against my chest and she started to fuss. She really wanted to be facing everyone and a part of the conversation. Too cute!

No car seats please

So our first attempt to get Sarah in a car seat was a disaster. We didn't even make it to the car.

She did much better the second time.

We have discovered she doesn't like the stroller either. Twice we have gone somewhere with her in the stroller and she fussed the whole time but when she is in a carrier she doesn't say a word. Funny, how they have their own preferences already.

Brad's a Milkface Dad

If you wear your baby, drink beer and double fist it, you are a Milkface Dad.

There is this really cool store in Ottawa called Milkface. They sell all sorts of breastfeeding stuff and baby carriers.

Their saying is some thing like: If you breastfeed, baby wear or natural parent you are a Milkface Mom. So, playing with that theme we came up with one for dads.