Tradition
In the end it all worked out, serendipidy at its best. Amy stayed with Nanny and Grandad and excelled herself, she slept until 9.15. Grandad and Amy have gone up to the park now and left me at home to sort things out, takes me back a few years to when ours were little and Sunday mornings were Daddy and children out and about, Mummy enjoying being able to get on with bits and bobs without little people needing things. Daughter phoned to check that Amy was okay, they enjoyed Spamalot, and are now at Covent Garden having a leisurely breakfast. 2pm will see us all descending on a local pub restaurant, even step-grandson has asked to come, quite an honour, a 12 year old wanting to come out with the tribe, 8 adults, 1 pre-pubescent, 2 toddlers and a baby, I feel quite sorry for all the other patrons.
Isabel is a little cutie, when I weighed her on Friday, day 5, she had put on an ounce and a half, she is now 7lbs, her Mummy was delighted, she was even good when I did her heel prick blood test. Jack is being wonderful, so far there have been no shows of jealousy, just every time he leaves the room he has to kiss her on the forehead. Daughter shows no sign of having just had a baby, she is back being Jack's doting Mummy, it's just that she has a small bundle cradled in her arms as she says 'It all happened so quickly I don't feel as if I've just given birth'. I suppose that if you have a quick homebirth and no stitches the only real change has been that there is now a new baby, there was never the going into hospital, giving birth, waiting to come home, and then the arriving home. I certainly think it helped if you have a toddler around, he didn't miss Mummy and Daddy or have to stay with anyone or anyone stay with him, there was only one change in his life, and that was his baby sister.