coming along?

2 amazing nights sleep followed by 1 terrible and 1 average one... is it because I accidently ate dairy or were we getting our hopes up too soon?  A. now has her first bank account, she is a "Dollarmite", cute.  She gets $4 a week in her bank account.  She is saving for a student exchange, or car, or something.  Birth certificate arrived.  Must apply for a passport for her soon... it lasts five years, I don't think she will still look like this in five years.  The father with the broken leg makes things a little difficult.  Anoushka now follows us around the room with her eyes and looks interestedly at her toys.  She is about to grow out of 0000, maybe a week to go.  Sergio tries to sit on her when she is on my lap now.  He wants me back.  A. loves music.

About 1 week old, with "Pop"

help

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Baby visions

Turning, tumbling paisley
baby dreams cascading
like milk from straws
into a pond of fluttering
wildlife and highlife

Fatso

Milk

I'm giving up dairy to see if it is what is giving A. these terrible pains that keep the three of us up half of the night.  Really hoping this is the answer.

Life.

 Womb to Nam - A Baby's Tale From A Foreign Land


Vietnamese women stalk me
Sergio howls
Haven't met Charlie yet
But I know the day is coming
Saigon madness 
The screams in the middle of the night
Or is that just me
It's hard to tell anymore
I shit everywhere

Just to know I'm real

Progress report

Last post of the day, a general progress report.  So, as of Monday just gone, A. weighs 3771grams, that's a kilo more than when she was born, and 590grams more than two weeks previously.  She is also 1.6cms longer than two weeks previously.  She has a nasty rash on her face, completely normal and should be gone by six weeks, but not pretty.  WE HAVE RECEIVED OUR FIRST SMILES from her!   She has excellent neck control, according to the nurse, and can hold her neck up for several seconds while laying on her stomach on the ground.  She cries more.  She loves to stare.  She makes new noises every day.  She is finally going 3-4 or even 5 hours without a feed, and we think her sleeping patterns might, maybe, be getting better. 
Anoushka is now 5 weeks old.

Some of the few photos my parents have actually bothered to take of me

Photos taken by Nanna while she was here

Mama, Dada, Mama Dada and Sergio, Auntie Chloe

Many of these photos...

were taken by others, we hope no one minds their use here.

First week

With Auntie Shell and Bri, and Nan (haha, Nan)

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Welcome!

There have been requests for more photos of A., but Joshua and I would both like to keep them private, as well as avoid making our Facebook pages shrines to our child - they are shrines to us, goddamnit.

So this is a baby-ego blog all about the darling screaming girl.

I write this one handed (babe in arms), and didn't get but two consonants and one vowel into this post without having to take a screaming break (not gorgeous pooing girl's fault, as she had to be placed down while I rescued a lizard from Sergio's mouth). This illustrates the setbacks we may encounter in trying to keep this blog entirely up to date, so be patient with us. And please, request no more.

Oh, and enjoy your Anoushka fix.

alex