My first outing without Rose

Yesterday I went out without Rose for the first time!* It had been brewing for a while. In our parents group the nurse has been highlighting the importance of having time to yourself, regularly. Lots of the other women in the group have been having time to themselves, and also extending it to having couple [...]

Status report – 2 months

Nicknames: Rosie, Bosie, Rosie Roo, the Roo (and variations and puns, such as “the Roo-ster”, “Roo-tabaga” and “Roo-tunda”*), sausage, pickle, blossom.
Favorite acts: kicking, “talking”, flailing, burying face and rubbing it in a parent’s chest
Favorite object: The mobile on her change table. It’s strange, but Rose loves the mobile seemingly more than she loves her parents. [...]

Firsts

Today has been a day of firsts. Rose and I had our first conversation this morning. She woke up quite late, around 10am, very sleepy. I changed her nappy and gave her a feed. I then read her a couple of books*, and noticed that she was listening quite intently. So I put the books [...]

The rocker

Parents these days are faced with a dizzying array of baby stuff to buy. Most of it is over-priced junk with a very limited lifespan. I’m particularly reminded of the baby swing that Stephen and Delwyn bought, only to find that Cleo cried whenever she was put in it, so it ended up being [...]

Citizen of the world

She may be only 7 weeks old, but Rose is already a citizen of two countries! Her certificate of citizenship (by descent) for New Zealand arrived on Friday last week, and her Australian passport arrived on Wednesday. It’s very exciting knowing that she already has lots of choices about how to make her way in [...]

… and an even longer day

OK, so you guys all read yesterday that I wanted to spend the day recuperating and catching up on sleep? Well Rose had different plans. She was awake all day, apart from two hour-long walks outside in the front pack with Chris. The thing is, she seemed a little bit stuffy, so we didn’t think [...]

A long night…

Poor Rose has caught the cold that I’ve had for the last few days, and that Chris has had since the weekend. Last night, about 10 minutes after I posted the results of her appraisal by the pediatrician, she started coughing. We were up for most of the night comforting her (and worrying about her); [...]

Visit with the pediatrician

We visited the pediatrician today, and Rose turned on the charm. She was in a sweet, but compliant mood, happily letting Dr. G. undress her and weigh her, measure her, and even yank her legs around. Anyway, Dr. G. pronounced her as very healthy, in fact he even went as far as saying that “they [...]

Mother’s Day

Happy Mother’s Day to Anne, Jo, Rita, pip and Laura, and also to me!
Rose decided to celebrate Mother’s Day by pooing so prolifically that we had to give her a bath. She made up for it though; I got a beaming smile.
Sarah
p.s. By the way, I posted a very short video of Rose on youtube.

95th percentile!

I just had Rose weighed by the nurse, and she’s up to 5.1 kilos (11 pounds 4 ounces)! She’s in the 95th percentile for height, weight, and head circumference, which means that she’s big, but she’s not out-of-proportion big. Chris keeps throwing his hands up in the air, also like Nixon boarding the helicopter, shouting [...]