She grows really fast. Sometimes I look at her in the morning and I feel like she grew overnight at least few inches up. And when cutting nails, I feel that while I’m cutting them on the other hand, they grow long on the first one again. She weighs just over 5.6kg and she recently puts her both hands in front of her together putting them all into her mouth. She started to drool pretty much, so I wonder, when she begins to lick everything around.
Olivia has over 5kg and my back is looking forward to doing excercises starting next week. She enjoys bathing and she recentlystarted screaming when we’re taking her out from the bathwater. Now I’m only waiting for that she holds her head properly and we go to the pool. I’m very happy that she has a relationship with Andrej equivalent to me (probably up to that hungry expression on her face) and whenever she sees him she smiles.
Our little Olivia is two months old. Actually, she is not very small anymore, she grew about ten centimeters up and weighs about 4.8kg. She smiles a lot, but she can curle her mouth as well when she doesn’t like something and she generally makes targeted grimaces trying to imitate us. She likes looking into the mirror and the windows, I think it’s because of the light. She got used to regular walks in a stroller and when the sunlight is disturbing her by sleeping she is able to stretch her cap under her nose.
Well, beside the all my current activities I managed to knit againand Olivia got a new sweater with a hat. For such a small person it doesn’t take long to finish it and the outcome pleases meevery time(especially when other moms like Olivia and I can change ideas and patterns for new things with them :) ).
It’s been over a month since Olivia lives with us. I must say that she changes herself in front of our eyes daily and she grows quickly. Some of her clothes are already small and we started using a new size of diapers as well. She learned to cry and express dissatisfaction and has an incredible appetite. She smiles often looking at us with her big eyes, she makes a variety of sounds with opened mouth.
A little retrospective writing, but I felt I need to write about it. I thought that pregnancy and stress are mutually exclusive, but I think they attract each other. Fear is different, it seems natural to me. Whenever I didn’t feel well, the first thing that occured to me was whether the little baby in my tummy is well. But by stress I rather mean the feeling that I always had when I had to decide for something or to solve something from medical point of view and there were many of those moments.
So we bathed our little baby for the first time. After a week, her umbilical cord fell away and we took her to the first walk in a stroller. We also somehow managed changing her diapers (an electric heater above the changing table is absolutely fantastic thing) and we only had to handle bathing in water. I expected many reactions, but not that she will be so satisfied. Our midwife came to help us and teach us once again some of those useful tricks.
We had our first visit since there have been three of us and we got a wooden cradle. It found its place in the living room next to our couch. Our midwife was fascinated with it too when she saw it. I’m not sure how long it will serve us (when our dear child beggins to jump out from it), but now it’s great for napping throughout the day. Grandparents visited us for really very short time, but Olivia looked happy in the grandma’s hands and we felt very comfortable that we didn’t have to think about how is Olivia.
I wrote the below article last week, thinking that I have enough time to do some more photos of my growing belly. But somehow I didn’t manage it and our little princess is already in the world :) Well, we grow slowly. According to recent estimates, our baby has around 2.8 to 3 kg and falls well within the average size range, which makes me extremely happy. It’s only a shame that she doesn’t want to turn as other average children.
