It's just a PHASE...

Yesterday evening Lovisa decided to be a bit manic again and it took about an hour to put her to sleep. Which made me manic so around 10:30 pm, when both babies where sleeping, I couldn't go to sleep. I shouldn't have written that stupid blog post yesterday evening. Shorter naps? Bah! What do I know? Maybe it's her molars coming out...

At the breakfast table this morning. As happy and rested as ever! 

Now I'm just going to bang my head against a wall and have my second cup of coffee (only second!) while I'm repeating my mantra "it's just a phase..."

Bloody stubborn kid part 2!

So we decided to reduce Lovisas afternoon nap to 1 hour, from being at least 2 hours. The first night she slept 12 (!) hours, from 9 pm to 9 am, which I think never happened before. Well, this was a bit to good to be true, the following nights she's been sleeping around 10 hours, which still is good for being Lovisa... So we're going to stick to short afternoon naps! The best thing though, is that it's taken about 30 minutes for her to fall asleep instead of nerve wracking 1 hour or more.

Andréa is a bit more cranky during the evenings. I think she has a bit of a stomach pain and she probably feels we're exhausted to with little patience. Or she just wants to be like her big sister... She likes it best if I carry her in my arms.  I remember that Lovisa had a period with the same cranky evening mood. Good thing the girls are mostly shiny happy people during the days!

A happy Andréa, 5 weeks old

The best diet ever?

Having a baby and breastfeeding it have to be one of the best diets ever! Yesterday I was able to eat 3 pieces of apple pie with vanilla sauce (!) and still loose some weight. One month after the delivery I'm basically back to my "ideal" weight. That you actually have to get pregnant, gain weight and give birth might have some disadvantages for the advertisement for this particular diet...

Eat 3 pieces of this and loose weight!

That doesn't mean that my body is in the same shape though... Hips are wider, skin is a bit looser... BUT, my toe nails are fixed, old flaky color gone, new summery pink on!

 
One month after the delivery

Bloody stubborn kid!

I'm going insane. Lovisa drivs me and H CRAZY!!! She refuses to go to sleep at night. This has been going on since we came back from Sweden but has accelerated from being a bit annoying to be totally exhausting. Usually I put her to bed but since Andréa arrived H and me have shared pretty equally, depending on if Andréa needs to be fed or be carried around (sometimes she's only content with me). Maybe it's just that, Lovisa feels that I'm not there 100%?

This is how we ususally do it: around 7:30 pm she takes her bath. We calm her down by watching a movie or reading a book. We give her warm milk in the bottle and then it's bedtime. Usually around 8:30 pm. She normally goes to sleep in 10-20 minutes. Now it takes at least 1 hour. She goes manic. She playes, sings, talk, cuddle with her toto's, runs around all over the second floor etc etc. She's not upset or sad but just totally crazy and insanely energetic. Of course it ends with H and me being pissed and Lovisa being sad, upset and way to tired. We're all tired. It's exhausting having a newborn on top of this.

Any tips?

She's driving us all mad! Good for her she's such a sweetie pie... Here in her sister's bassinet...

Stinking tuesday

Lovisa woke up at 4 am, feverish and refused to go back to sleep. At  6 am I was in the kitchen making breakfast. Andréa had stomach pains most of the day. Vomits everywhere. I've been changing my clothes 2 times, her clothes 3 times and changed numerous of poop diapers. It's these times you ask yourself "Am I breastfeeding her to much?", "Am I feeding her to often?", "Did I eat anything weired, like a can of beans?", "Is she allergic?" an so on... To make the evening more exciting I actually ate some kind of chicken sauce with beans and garlic for lunch so we'll just see how the night turns out...

Andréa about her first month...

I was born in Sweden on a very long Friday, the 22nd of April 2011. It was quite the ordeal  to leave mammas womb and I'm still trying to adjust to this strange life on the outside...

I took my first bath when I was 1 week old. It kind of reminded me of the life in the womb so I really liked it!

We moved back to Canada the 12th of May. It was a long trip but I didn't mind, I slept and ate most of the time. Here is my family when we just arrived to Pierre-Trudeau airport, mamma is carrying me in the "baby-björn".

Sometimes I get stomach pains. It hurts like hell!

But mamma comforts me with the best tasting milk ever. I try to get some every second hour...

My big sister Lovisa really loves me. She can be a bit rough but I will get even as soon as I can grab on to things!

My much bigger sister is very gentle and nice. I don't mind being in her arms.

This is how mamma and papa likes to see Lovisa and me. But it's rare we sleep at the same time... This lasted about 10 minutes and then I got hungry...

But I really like to sleep to! Maybe not when mamma wants to sleep, she has the funniest idea about sleeping for SEVERAL HOURS in a row during the night! I really appreciate a good nap in the pram.

It's hard to adjust to life outside mamma but I have to admit that my first month has been pretty amazing!

Pedicure, poop diapers and breastfeeding...

I've been meaning to do a very simple pedicure, when you have two children under 2 years that basically means to remove the old flaky color and replace it by new. However, it's bloody impossible to find the time between poop diapers, breastfeeding, laundry, crawling around the dirty floor looking for pacifiers (which I have to buy some more of, Andréa only have 2, we would absolutely need at least the double amount) and of course wiping of baby vomits from me, Andréa, the floor, the sheets and so on... But who am I kidding? Who looks at my toenails when the rest of me is covered by milk spots from leaking boobs, baby vomits and spaghetti sauce (from eating and breastfeeding at the same time)? Ahh, maybe next month...

Trying the baby gym. Andréa and the monkey seems to get along so far...