Urby you're going to have some ace times with all the firsts.
First steps
First words,
First time she rolls over
First Hallowen
First Christmas
She'll change so much week by week during the first years its an exciting time. I remember once when lilvibe woke up at 1 pm for her feed. I remember sitting there with her, feeling all this rush of love for her, thinking "all is silent, all is still. There is not a soul in this world at this moment in time n I love you."
You get to dress her in all these ace dresses I swear babies, especially girls, have better clothes than us. I miss those times on thinking. I used to love getting new dresses on my lil one. But as they get older they slow down, sorta. Lilvibe is in size 8-9 clothing n has ABSOLUTELY loads of clothes because my sis in law has given a loada her daughter's that she has hardly wore n are practically new.
She came to me today "mam can I wear some lipstick?" I said "no you can't". She's absolutely stunning n I'm not being biased she's really beautiful (she definitely DIDN'T get it from me) but even if she weren't I hate how children are made to grow up tp fast n how society lets us think we need this stuff on our faces to be beautiful (n if any man looks at my child n tries anything I will kill them I'm loyal n protective over my friends imagine how protective of my little um I am). It's a natural instinct to want ri protect you will have that, Urby. I had that the nine months I carried her n even when we were in hospital n nearly died due to high blood pressure brought on stress.
If you struggle with owt tell the midwife. They usually visit several times over the first fortnight then you're transferred to the health visitor where she gives you a red book recording all injections n milestones n you stay with the HV until she's 5 where they're then under school nurse. Hang on don't you live in Scotland? It may be different to there, not sure but yea there was some lovely times when shr was a baby / toddler n sooooooo many milestones they're very exciting. When lilvibe first said mam was magical cause took ages for her to saying she kept saying dadadadada for ages n after the first few words mew words are coming out of them like anything.
All the crap I went through not to lose her was worth it n you go through crap for your kids but then something good will happen n ut will cancel out the bad.
It's amazing n exciting to see this little person that you created, growing n changing every minute.
Embrace it. Document it. Video it for it goes fast, way too fast.....
Evey