Weekend

The past couple of days and nights have been rather tough for all of us. Audrey has been very unhappy, barely sleeping and crying a lot more than normal. She seems a little better today, but we have a doctor appointment this afternoon just to be sure that there's nothing wrong. I think it's probably just a growth spurt.

Ian and I are absolutely exhausted at this point, having had something like 5 hours sleep over the whole weekend. Audrey must be tired too, bless her.

Ian was great and spent a lot of time with her, especially when I was feeling overwhelmed and struggling with the constant feeds.

We also had a bit of a breakthrough with the pram. We discovered that Audrey likes it much better when she's in the carseat attachment rather than the pram-style attachment, possibly because she can see more of what's going on around her, or possibly because she's slightly more upright this way (she doesn't like lying flat on her back). Whatever the reason, we managed to get all the way to the supermarket and back yesterday! Yay for finally being able to go grocery shopping!

At Tesco, she woke up and fussed a bit so I nursed her and she promptly settled back to sleep. Tesco have a baby room where nursing mums can go sit down more comfortably, with changing stations to change nappies, which is a nice point in its favour. The pram base was really useful for storing big packs of nappies (she's on the second size now!) and cat litter etc. for the walk home.

The weather was perfect - sunny but blustery and cool. The sound of the wind sends Audrey straight to sleep. Today it's raining and blustery has turned into goodness-I-hope-that-tree-doesn't-blow-over, which is a little intimidating considering we were supposed to be going on an adventure into the shelter today. I've been going in on odd days for a few hours at a time, just to get Audrey used to it and to ease myself back into things.

Unless the weather changes, though, I don't think we'll be going anywhere today. Just snuggling up safe and sound in the nursery listening to the rain noises outside.

The pink quilt is from Isabelle, one of the volunteers at the shelter and a stellar seamstress! As is the adorable bunny top. The hat is a hand knit from Louise, one of our adopters and supporters at the shelter.

So pretty, Audrey Bea!