31st August 2007

Hello

We are now in week nr 6 coming up to week 7! Its all very exciting...Reuben is putting on good weight (10lb 6oz) and well seem to cope better with the early evening colic episodes! We have had the 6 weeks check which seemed to go well, DR has fully checked Reuben and said he was very allert and happy baby...(ups he has not heard him scream his lungs out). R did manage to pee on DR's tie but then again he did want him fully nacked....I guess he just got shy and panicked....
We have been out nearly every day this week. It was good fun and the week just flew by. We managed to get my blood test done as well this morning before the Health Visitor came around to check we were fine! I needed the blood test to make sure we are not anemic(sp?!). I now have 10 days until my college starts I am a bit scared as not sure how it might be without Reuben....and need to sort out childcare too.

Today reuben was excepcionally good we had a three hours sleep (hence pics) and walked in the fresh air for quite a bit. I even managed to grab a coffee and read a book on babies by Miriam Stoppard...that I picked up in Oxfam. We cam back home he still slept for another hour and so I was very pleased. He later fed (breast fed this afternoon and evening) and had a bath...he had a bad colic after bath and we cried together for 15 minutes after which he seemed to settle. He needed comforting after all these and it took three attempts to put him down in his moses basket. I realy hope we will be turning a corner soon and he will get rid of these awful colics and wakeing so early in the morning...4:30 he is up and stays up until 9am.

More later!

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