Friday, September 19, 2008 Libby takes to the water....

Libby at 12-14 weeks

I cannot believe that Libby is 3 months…it won’t be long before I have to pack away the 0-3 months clothes. It is just flying and it won’t be long before I have to go back to work, but hey let’s not think about that. In the mean time, let’s hope we might miraculously win the lottery and then I could give up work and have lots and lots of babies…

Now back to reality and I am wondering how mums cope with having more than one child. Now Libby is older she needs stimulating even more and this in itself can be quite tiring. Tim often comes home from work asking what we have been up to and he probably thinks that we are just out socializing but we are always doing thinks at home in between naps and socialising. She lovers her door bouncer and will easily spend 20 minutes or so in that and then she likes having a good kick about on the play gym or playing with her toys or bouncing around on my knee to nursery rhymes. I always try to interact with her as she loves this.

Libby had her second set of jabs this fortnight and again she didn’t have a reaction to them which was a relief. She obviously cried when they were done and slept for a while afterwards and was a little bit grizzly but was otherwise ok. It will be good when she has had the last set in another 4 weeks as I don’t think that she has to have any more until she is one after that.

We started our Waterbabies classes at last. It is great as there are 7 of us who became friends through ante-natal and aqua-natal and we meet weekly for coffee and decided to take Waterbabies classes together. It is quite expensive but the way I look at it is the child benefit helps to pay for it. Tim and myself decided to use the child benefit to help pay for activities for Libby as she grows up. Waterbabies classes are held at very warm swimming pools – our takes place in a hydrotherapy pool and it is boiling. The classes last for 30 minutes and the term is 10 weeks. In our first class, the instructor dunked our babies under the water and they were all pretty good and there were only a couple cries. In the last class a photographer takes underwater photos, I hope none of them cry!! I have always wanted a Nirvana underwater style baby photo, I just hope we don’t have to re-mortgage to get one!!