He's here!

Jonathan Robert was born 11/11/14 at 9.13am, weighing 8lbs exactly or 3.63kg. The c-section was a breeze, the worst part was getting up out of bed for the first time and showering. That was not fun, and I regret not taking the extra pain meds that they offered me before I got up. I was down to just paracetamol and ibprofen by day 3 and by the time I got out of hospital I just needed paracetamol if I'd over done it or forgotten to rest.

Breastfeeding has gone pretty well too, a few minor issues on one side but I saw a lactation consultant and we got that sorted out pretty quickly.

Jonathan is now 10 weeks old! The time has just flown by. He was a great sleeper at the start, except around 4 weeks he started fighting day sleeps and then after Christmas went from sleeping a nice 4-6hrs overnight to waking every two hours. But last night he slept five hours in a row! (of course I didn't, I cooked dinner and mopped bathroom, loaded the dishwasher......and went to bed 2 hours before he woke up. Mummy fail.)

When he's happy, he is this little ball of sunshine. Smiling and cooing, talking and mimicking you. But when he's upset he goes from 0-100 in no time and has quite an ear-piercing cry. He falls asleep while nursing and I transfer him to his bassinet, it's a 50-50 chance he'll wake up the second I leave the room and if he does he usually naps in my arms. I know it's frowned on upon but I can't give up the baby cuddles, one day he'll be big and won't want to cuddle.

He's spoilt rotten by both sets of grandparents as well as his aunts and uncles. He's still our little trickster, remember how he'd stop moving when Tony would try and feel him? Well, now he likes to flip from his tummy to his back the minute we look away. One day I'll actually see him do it, instead of looking back seconds later and seeing him on his back, when I'd placed him down on his tummy.

He has the best expressions and has discovered he can suck his hands, bat at toys and grab mummy's hair. He loves his daddy and lights up when daddy gets home from work each day. Tony bathes Jonathan and he spends most of bath time staring up and smiling at Tony. I put him in bed with Tony in the mornings while I shower and eat breakfast and can hear them cooing at each other as I'm getting ready for the day.

I'm doing ok, I've been a bit fragile after going a few weeks with 2 hourly wake ups. Tony and I don't always see eye to eye on some parenting issues and sometimes I can take things the health nurse or doctor has said bit too personally.

I really want to keep updating here. It wasn't until I had a comment that I realised I still hadn't gotten around to posting about Jonathans arrival! He's here, we're both healthy and hopefully it won't be another 10 weeks before I update again.

I do sporadically post photos on instagram too, my ttc instagram was donnattc but I post more on my regular one which is msflutterbye. :)