life as a new mother...

...leaves you little time to blog.

I wish I had a bit more time to write about about how things werer going, but it seems if I'm not feeding or comforting sweet little Jamie, then I'm frantically trying to get something done that's been on my to-do list for at least two days. Blogging, sadly has fallen down the list of priorities. Over the last week, though, we seem to have reached a little bit of a routine from morning to late afternoon (evenings are a different story), so hopefully, once I knock off a few more of my to-do's, then I will have some time for some morning blogging.

Jamie is doing very well. We went to see the health visitor today and he had his hearing checked and was weighed for the first time since day 5. I'm proud to say he's a healthy little chap with good hearing. He's up to 8lb 4oz, up a pound and a half from his birth weight. He's definitely been eating like a champ, so I'm not surprised. He has been feeding like a crazy man in the evenings, which actually means I get a couple decent blocks of sleep at night. We usually go to bed around 11 or so and then he wakes up around 2, feeds for an hour, and then again at 5:30 or 6, and then feeds for another hour.  Tomorrow I'm going to try expressing for the first time so Paul can have a chance at one of the multiple(!) evening feeds.

Speaking of evening feeds, he's just starting to fuss for one, but I thought I'd share our Flickr site where we're trying(!) to upload some of the better photos of Jamie. We have a premium subscription to the site so you can download the full res versions of the photos if you want to print any of them. We will try harder to take and upload more photos, but it's another thing like blogging, that is a bit harder than I expected!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulwoodward/sets/72157623625531237/