Week 1

I have officially registered Penelope with NSW Births, Deaths and Marriages, so she officially is a real person.

Michael and I have survived our first week as parents to an infant. We continue to find Penelope super cute bundle of joy. Michael has downloaded the BabySparks app, so he has fun doing little "exercises" with Penelope everyday. 

The cats have adjusted to her very nicely and haven't had any issues. If anything, Eve seems to like her, since when I'm feeding Penelope, Eve is guaranteed some petting if she comes and sits nearby. We don't always get as much uninterrupted sleep as we'd like, but that's okay. We seem to get enough most days so far, even if it's in the form of a lot of naps. The apartment hasn't descended into total chaos and clutter yet. We've had a handful of visitors and friends who've helped out, which has been nice. We facetime family a little more than usual, and it's been nice having Michael have time off work. 

The hardest part of the whole thing so far has been just physically healing from having her, and that is slowly getting better. If you have your baby at a New South Wales public hospital and leave within 72 hours without any major complications for bub or mum, you get three home visits from a midwife from the hospital in the following days. I'm very grateful I could go home after 48 hours, and the midwife visits were tremendously helpful. 

And so begins week two of us getting to know this tiny human. We are looking forward to her getting a little more used to night and day as time goes on, rather than just feeding and sleeping whenever.