eden (at the) park

After Monday morning's update, Bronwyn and Eden did indeed come home that day. That I've not been able to blog has reflected the change in life that has resulted! Each day has been different. Monday night was incredibly disrupted sleep, much crying, and no longer than about 60 to 90 minutes of unbroken sleep for either Eden or parents. Tuesday night not quite so bad, with a four hour sleep early on though not much undisrupted time beyond that.

Ahh, last night though! Bless you Eden. Finishing a feed at 10, he was in bed at 10.15pm. I was woken with a nasty shock to the sound of loud sobbing—but coming from Bronwyn, not Eden! Put it this way, developing a milk supply can be uncomfortable. So, somewhat in contrast to our original plan, we woke Eden in order to feed him, some 4.5 hours after he'd gone to bed. It took an hour to feed, and a further 45 minutes to get him back to sleep. We were amazed when he then slept from 4.30am right through till we again woke him, five hours later, at 9.30am! Oh boy... we've got a sleeper on our hands. All right. :)

After farewelling his Grandad, who headed back north for work today, we gave Eden his first sunbathe this morning: five minutes each side till Golden Brown. (Actually, the golden may be a little residual jaundice...) Buoyed on by 9.5 hours of sleep and the glorious Wellington weather, we even ventured out with him down to the botanical gardens to see the tulips. Eden did remarkably well for a six-day-old, snoozing mostly as per his primary role. What a great day.

Finally, I'd like to welcome our invited guest blogger, Eden's own Grandma Halse, to give a thoroughly unbiased opinion...
 

Being Grandma sure is fun! Eden David Babbage is the cutest, sweet smelling, soft skinned, funny face puller, baby I've met. David and I just love him to bits. Today I went with Bronwyn and Duncan as they took Eden to the Botanical Gardens, his first outing! He was great at pulling the crowds. Duncan had him posing by the tulips which were in full bloom. It was a lovely sunny day and Eden behaved perfectly - but then I would say that wouldn't I?

Grandma (Jenny) Halse