Here’s a picture of Edward looking cute in his first bib. I’m not quite sure why it has taken me four weeks to use a bib, I suppose muslins are just too easy to pick up and mop up spills. Yesterday was also the first time we wore socks and the first time we tried gripe water. My poor little boy is very windy and we’ve tried Infacol without success so I thought at four weeks he’s now old enough to try gripe water.

Here we are sporting one of our new outfits bought by Grandad yesterday. As we don’t know when we’ll be able to go home we’ve registered with the local health service. Baby is now weighing in at 4940g – an increase of 970g since birth 🙂 I was discharged by the community midwife and will be contacted by the health visitor to discuss imunisations and other baby stuff. I feel a bit sad as I had a great relationship with my midwife who had looked after me since my first booking-in appointment. I’m never going to get the chance to…

Edward is official today as we managed to fill out a Declaration at the Register Office on the Isle of Wight. This will be forwarded to our local Register Office and we can finally get his birth certificate. We had a little shopping spree in Newport and bought some new clothes as the newborn clothes no longer fit. It was Grandad’s birthday today so cake was duly baked with a little help from Willow.