Thank you for all your lovely messages over the last week. It’s been fantastic to hear from so many of you.
So Cameron was born after a much shorter labour than I expected which was really good as it's really quite a painful experience :-) A totally different experience to what happened with Amelia where I had a really long labour and tons of drugs. As a result Cameron has been much stronger and alert from the outset and we have got on with the breastfeeding together much better than I did with Amelia.
We got home from the hospital on Thursday afternoon and it was super to be home and back into a comfortable bed. So far we have found him to be a good night sleeper, giving us plenty of rest in between nappy changes and feeds. Iain as usual is brilliant and supportive and mum has been here helping out with Amelia and particularly the cooking and the laundry which is a great help.
Iain is going to go back to work tomorrow for the rest of the week while mum's here and then take some time off when mum has gone back home. Amelia is going brilliantly well with being a big sister, of course we are getting some odd and not perfect behaviour but considering that she has an extra person in the house (grandma), a new baby brother and her routine has been completely disrupted over the last few weeks (and she’s 2!) we are really proud of how she’s coping.
She is besotted with Cameron and is always wanting to kiss him and huggle him. Usually at times when he's fast asleep or just about to fall asleep!
We have our first community midwife visit this afternoon at home so we'll see how he's getting on with his weight and all the other things they check for.
So what more can I say, we're very proud parents of a son and couldn't be happier.
Here's some photos
Lots of love
Caroline, Iain, Amelia and Cameron
xxxxxx
