Liv'ing room antics

• Age: 24 weeks
• Weight: 7.2 kg (15 lbs 14 oz)
• Average hours of continuous sleep: 9 hours and holding
• Latest trick: Just being extraordinarily cute

A new toy

Look - no hands!

Fun with dad

Presumably something more interesting on other side of room

Weekend play

Age: 23 weeks
Weight: 7.1 kg (15 lbs 10 oz)
Average hours of continuous sleep: 9 hours!
Latest trick: Going to creche with no signs of separation anxiety (unlike her nervous parents)

The foot makes a reappearance...

Stripes and more stripes

Focus... focus....

Cuddles with mum

The breast intentions

• Age: 22 weeks
• Weight: 7.0 kg (15 lbs 7 oz)
• Average hours of continuous sleep: 2-3
• Latest trick: Feeding like a newborn

Whew - what a week! We always knew it was going to be a little tough, since Chris was going to be away at a conference, but we never predicted the full scale of things!

It all began at 5am on Monday morning when Chris found out that his flight (from Terminal 5 at Heathrow) was cancelled. Although this was more than enough to entice him back to bed, a more motivated colleague phoned with the news they were rebooked on the 11am flight. So, Chris put in the hard yards anyway, got to the airport by 7, and spent the following 6 hours there, being as they were rebooked on the 1pm flight.

Meanwhile, back in Oxford, playing the role of solo mum, my day went pretty well... until that night I came down with a raging fever and swollen inflamed breast - mastitis! Then my number 1 priority became to feed feed feed the little one (since I'm pretty sure it was a clogged milk
duct that brought it on). Luckily by the next morning the fever was gone, and once I discovered Nurofen (Advil), things got a whole lot better, despite the sleep deprivation that a regression to a newborn feeding schedule brought about. To top things off, Livia had been battling the nighttime bedtime routine - well the final step of it anyway (i.e. actually going to sleep). The upshot of this is that she now has tinfoil lining her bedroom window in order to convince her it really is night time. So far, so good. Oh, and a tyre on her buggy went flat, so I've been shlepping her around in the old Mothercare tank we have (which at the very least means I get a good workout!).

Needless to say we did not manage to take many photos of Livia this week, so here are few more from our trip to Cambridge...

Who's your Mommy and Daddy?

• Age: 21 weeks
• Weight: 6.8 kg (15 lbs)
• Average hours of continuous sleep: 8-9
• Latest trick: Pulling Mum's hair and glasses

Beautiful weather last weekend lured us to the park, where we took a few shots of Livia with the Spring daffodils. Click here for more photos from Month 5.


And then for a surprise this morning...