Chapter 2 Day 2-3 Teething Blues and The House of Thousands-Miles Shoes

I had all the intention to get up the following morning after my first post. But the Baby Teething Blues CD got into the player, which is so well-known for all parents with small children and we spent our night crying in bed, playing in the living room and sitting in the kitchen watching the wonderful play of the blue light coming out of that white thing looking like a tower while it made that strange noise just before started to blow its nose. ‘I gave a big sigh when mummy said something like it stopped. So far that was the first thing that made me forget about the pain in my mouth, watching the blue and white tower blowing its nose. I had no idea what stop means yet, but I love hearing mummy’s voice, it makes me feel safe whatever happens. It gives me almost the same feeling when I see her. There she is my mummy and I know everything is ok. I know when I cry she picks me up, strokes my hair and my back when I wake and she still has that lovely smell that reassures me, I will never go hungry. Something is happening in my mouth, it hurts and I love being in my mummy’s arms so much just to make me feel loved and safe. She is my natural pain killer.’

7am Baby wakes, to be continued with the shoes…

Chapter 2 Day 1 So Many Days After Giving Birth

I had no idea what I was thinking about the next blog post 9 months ago, when I wrote my last post just before going to hospital to give birth to our little bundle of joy Paul Theodore (Theodoreable, as Debbie a wonderful TA from Cardiff called him over the summer). He is 9kg now, crawls, stands and walks as far as he can find furniture to hold on to in the flat, but I certainly did not think it would take me 9 months to write my next post. I did indeed try at least a few times hoping by every month that I could start very soon. I have the proof on my laptop which broke down a couple of months ago and on this of my wonderful husband’s. I was just going to write this one does not have English spelling, but I had a quick thought of checking it and of course it has. That says it all about me and IT :-)

Looking after a little one does wipe out many levels of logical thinking from mummy’s brain when it comes to anything else but feeding, nappy changing and all the general tasks around a baby. (I must collect all my ‘Intended-to-be-posted’ Writings at some point. It is going to be interesting to read them. Most of the times though I only got to switch on the laptop, but did not do any writing as Paul Theodore needed me :-)

I love being a mum!!! I have never thought it was going to be such a joyful task. I do feel this journey is the beginning of Chapter 2 in my life. All that was before seems so far away by now. At the moment I feel that I don’t want to change the world any more, I just would like to be a good mum and a wife and I think this is the right thing to do at this time of my life.

I remember being told that the first 6 weeks is going to be tough, but to be honest the first 3 months sounds closer to reality. And now that Baby PT (as Kerst our Dear Friend calls him) eats solids it is a completely different ballgame. It is a lot easier the days don’t seem any more one long feed and we have lots of fun as we have laid down the foundations of our parents and baby communication already (tightly closed lips if no more food wanted for example and cheeky looks when trying to grab something that is forbidden, like TV, standing lamp and sockets).

There is so much to write about, things we have been doing and future plans and I can only hope that tomorrow early in the morning, while everybody else if going to be sleeping here I will be able to get up again and write about the secret life of Vondores, because there is one indeed…