Day 4....

Just to keep us real, Josie decided to keep me up for a good deal of the night! She seemed to be battling with tummy cramps and was squirming with pain and crying heart-wrenching cries that had me bouncing, rocking and swaying to try and help her releive some 'wind'. An interesting time...and it always seems worse when its dark and everybody else is sleeping.

The beauty of Maternity leave though, is that once all the family were packed off to work and school, I could get back into bed and catch up an hour or two of sleep while Josie slept. Yay!!

I am amazed again at how much time one can spend feeding, burping, dressing, etc the baby....it feels like I do little else in the day at this stage.

It is also wonderful to have a granny around who is taking care of everything I am not getting to.....washing, shopping, feeding the animals, fetching girls etc etc. Yay for grannies!!

I am loving every minute of 'playing babies'.....savouring every minute too as this is the last baby for us!! What a blessing!