Happier

Last week myself and F bought a new car. I will be the one driving it while being on maternity leave, it's going to be great. That way I'll be able get around easier and visit friends that live further away from me without having to take the bus. I still don't feel ready for public transportation, but perhaps in a couple of weeks!? :)

My new Toyota Yaris

Since we introduced formula milk to Emilia, she is much happier and last week she started to smile quite frequently. My heart melts when she smiles at me, it's lovely to be able to talk to her and to get a smile back. She can focus for longer periods now so we try to interact with her as much as possible. She's such a little cutie. This morning it was time for another check up and she has gained 430g since last week so she has been catching up on the weight a bit which feels great. The only problem with giving her the bottle is that she sometimes gets quite cranky when I'm breastfeeding her as the milk doesn't come with the same flow. In the next few days my mission is to try to breastfeed her as much as possible during the day so that the milk supply will increase, it feels like I don't have enough milk for our hungry little food monster ;) If the milk supply gets better then everything will get better, that's what I'm hoping for anyway.

My little cutie

Tomorrow we're getting the keys to our house, I'm so excited! We won't move in until in another couple of weeks since we're going to renovate upstairs first but it's getting closer :)

Lovely Friday

Today has been a great day, myself and Emilia went out for a walk and met up with Maria to walk around the lakes in Sundbyberg. The weather was lovely and Emilia fell asleep after around 10 minutes and slept for about an hour and a half. Afterwards Maria invited us for a cup of coffee and cookies that she had baked - they were yummy :)

The last couple of weeks have been quite busy, Emilia hasn't been too happy and has cried for many hours every day. We think she suffers/suffered from colic and tried everything but nothing helped. Then we were recommended to try acupuncture and this week we have been to an acupuncturist for four treatments. It's difficult to say this early but she seems a bit better already. Besides, when we went for a check up this week and weighed our little girl, we found out that she had not gained that much weight in the last week. That probably means that she has been hungry lately and the crying might also have been because of that. Poor girl! So on Wednesday night we started giving her a bit of formula milk on top of me breastfeeding her and she seems much happier and more content. I hope it will get better and that she becomes the happy girl that we want her to be.

We have no established routines yet and in a few weeks we're moving out to Täby so it's all a bit stressful. But after that I hope that everything gets better. I can't wait to move in to the house, it's all very exciting. We're planning on spending Christmas Eve in our house with both our families and I'm really looking forward to that.

Right now I'm getting a few minutes to myself (which is very rare these days), Emilia just fell asleep in a baby swing that we bought for her this week. Yay!

Below is a picture of her doing her morning exercise. She's a strong girl and manages to lift her head for longer periods already. That's my girl ;)

3,3 kg pure love

At 6:34 on Monday the 22nd of October F and I finally became parents to the most beautiful little girl we had ever seen. She weighed 3360g and measured 51cm. We decided to call our daughter Emilia Agnes Meya Tedmar.

Emilia is 10 days old today and we're bursting with love for our little girl. She fills our lives with so much joy and we're enjoying every second together with her.

She's turned our world upside down, but we're slowly getting into it and we're getting to know her more and more each day. She can scream, for sure, when she doesn't agree with something but for most of the time she's the happy little girl that we want her to be.

I love holding her, talking to her, singing to her, looking at her, smelling her and cuddling with her. I wanna be close to her all the time. This is the most precious time and we're making sure we thoroughly enjoy every second of every day. Being a parent is the best feeling in the world! ♥