She has arrived
Posted by Viktoria | Filed under Baby stuff
Norah Jane Ilona Brown finally arrived on the 12th July after a complicated birth that ended with a C-section. She was 9 lb 9 oz, a pretty large baby.
So far I am surprised how well it is going and how much we can sleep and go out with her. I think this is the fundamental difference between having one baby or having twins. None of this would be possible with twins.
I didn’t plan to have her in our bed during the night, my plan was that she would sleep in the bassinet by our bed but that didn’t work out for two reasons: one – she wakes up usually within 15 mins if I put her down in the bassinet instead of sleeping with her; two – if I try to swaddle her, she wakes up, but if I don’t swaddle her, she wakes herself up because of her wild hand and leg movements, plus she is cold without a blanket and a loose blanket is not safe in the bassinet.
So for the first 5 nights after coming home from the hospital (2 days after birth) I slept with my rocker/recliner chair with her, because I could hardly get up from the bed to sit up to feed her – my incision just hurt too much. After several days and being fed up with sleeping in the rocking chair, when I was well enough to sleep on my side (which I couldn’t do with the fresh wound for days) I started to sleep with her in our bed and feed her in the side-lying position. So I am actually getting more sleep than I expected although I am still awake for a good portion of the night, but at least it is comfy and I can sleep while feeding and between feedings.
Our social life is much better than I expected too. We went to our first BBQ party when she was 5 days old – we had a lot of fun and she was asleep the whole time. We visited my in-laws 3-4 times already and went out to have dinner with them the other day. On Saturday we went to have lunch with friends – Norah was asleep the whole time, then visited her twin cousins – she spent most of the time asleep again and we went out for dinner with other friends. So it has been really easy so far and I think we are lucky that she doesn’t cry much and when she does, she usually has a good reason – 90% of the time she is hungry (after all she is a big baby) and most of the other times she is dirty.
I haven’t played any poker lately, but I plan to make my online come back when I play the heads-up against a lucky player who will be chosen on the Everest Poker Hungarian Cup final on 7th August. I hope to play some more poker online after that, maybe an hour or two every couple of days – that is the good side of cash games that I can sit down and stand up at any point. We’ll see, but that is the plan.
Here are some pictures of our precious baby:
