It is 9.47pm and both of us are feeling shattered. At least tomorrow is Friday and it is a long weekend. Hooray! Jake is now having his last feed before going to bed. He is losing his hair at an alarming rate, but only on the top like an old man or indeed Winston Churchill. …
Monthly Archives: April 2006
Almost six weeks
Tomorrow Jakey will be six weeks old. He is growing so fast it’s unbelievable. We read in our baby book yesterday that he will start to lose his Moro reflex(which I love) and his grasp reflex :-(. We think that he may be a bit coliccy again as he has started to grunt and writhe …
One month old
Jake is one month old today. In some respects it seems to have flown by and in others it seems much longer. It is known as a paradox. Amy had another bad night as Jake just refused to settle himself for bed. This morning when I woke she was in no mood to speak so …
Let there be poo
Yesterday after 10 days of no poo, Jake decided to let rip. What a relief it was for both parents and for the bairn! Within seconds his little face looked relaxed and contented. It was so good to see it after all the days of red faced straining and pained expressions :-(. Jake ironically had …
Cool postcards
Our postcards arrived today from Photobox. I expected them to be just prints made with special paper with the space for a stamp and address on the back. They are actually properly printed just like pictures in a magazine or paper. I’m sure that there is a technical name for this type of printing but …
Constipation
Our health visitor came by today and said that little Jake was suffering from constipation. This accounts for his restlessness and bouts of crying. I was beginning to get a little anxious because he has not pooed for several days. We made an appointment with the doctor in Hilly Fields and she diagnosed the same …
Almost three weeks
I thought we had turned a corner. On Friday Jake was sleeping around 4 hours in the night. This meant that we had just two feeds to give him. However, on Sunday night he started to feed every 2 hours again. This is probably a growth spurt but it coincided with an increase in crying …