Well I have been away a while so thought I would report back on our first month with 2 children in the house !

firstly our little Sophia is adorable, cute and cuddly

She has suffered from bad wind though, Colic every night !

We have been through the mill with Health Visitor with Lactose Free powdered milk (In case that was the problem) Coleif drops, Infacol, Dentinox. You name it we have tried it lol

All to no avail it seems, guess we are just going to have to wait it out as from memory Izzy had similar and outgrew it at around 3 months old, so only 2 months of no sleep to go

We have just reached the smiling stage and both Jue and I got a little smile out of DD just yesterday

We have settled on a pattern that suits our lifestyle for these initial first few months. Due to the Colic Sophia doesn't sleep that well or predictably during the night so to ensure we both get at least some sleep we are working shifts.

I retire for the night at 19:30-20:00 inevitably either with Izzy asleep next to me or she ends up coming into Julie and my room sometime during the night (more on that later), Jue then shakes me at 01:30 and I get up and take over and Jue sleeps through until 07:30ish

This would work fine if it weren't for Izzy !!, she has become very, very clingy with Jue ever since the birth of Sophia, which we expected anyway but it is hard to cope with. The funny thing is we also expected some sibling jealously but we haven't had any of that at all, in fact Izzy is very affectionate to her new "baby sister" and wants to help wind her, change her nappy, have on lap etc etc which is one good point lol

The problem is this clinginess is manifesting itself as insecurity, she wakes numerous times during the night crying out for "Mommy !", Julie tried to taker her to nursery for a few morning a week to give her some time to do things, but the very first session within 30 minutes we got a call from the Nursery staff to say to pick up Izzy as she was inconsolable ! (Jue is going back to Nursery tmrw to attend a session and going to stay around at the Nursery for a while with Izzy to see if that helps her settle there better)

obviously with a limited sleep cycle of around 5hours any disruption can be murder and Julie and I are walking around in a zombie state most of the time, irritable and dead on our feet, but alas Cest la Vie, it will improve. please, please, please let it improve

Its been fairly easy to settle back into the baby care regime, nappy change, feed, wind, sleep, nappy change, feed, wind, sleep lol

without being too visual or shocking, its a helluva lot easier to change baby nappy that Izzys' as baby nappies are how can i say it ahem less loaded

although Sophia has this tendency to do a wee just as you are midway between changing nappies and then it turns into logistical nightmare as you try and placate a crying baby, dig through baby changer shelves trying to find replacement baby grow and vest (now soaked in Wee) lol

I hope this gives you a quick update on proceedings so far lol

Will upload some photos to the photo gallery now

http://www.mylittlecutey.com/gallery/members/daveb/sophia/

Well thought I would start keeping a blog whenever time permits of a fathers viewpoint with a second baby due

We already have our llittle cutey Isabella (Izzy) and now our second baby whom we have decided will be called Sophia is due within a week

Already we have decorated the nursery no.2 in preparation, the old cot and bits and bobs from Izzy have been dug out of the loft, bleached and cleaned and are ready for use again, the main advantage of having another girl

Izzy has been prepared as best we can with lots of n"new baby" books, chat and role play and the idea that the new baby sister will be here soon with a nice big present for her

Granny is here and helping out in preparation for the birth, Izzy chats non stop to Granny and keeps her on her toes lol

Every day we wander will this be "the day" and every day Julies mood darkens as it draws to a close as she realises it wasn't to be this day and she has to go through another uncomfortable day

Sat around at lunch today with Jue and Izzy, and i am amazed how well she is coming on with drinking milk from a cup rather than a bottle.

She did however have a little milk rage and drop some on the floor, table, chair and herself lol

Her new phrase of the day no doubt picked up from mommy is "Daddy behave !!"

Julie had her 30 week scan yesterday

All is well, baby is 3lb in size already !

We had to take Izzy with us which tested patience levels a little as we were there for >2hrs lol

The ultrasound room was empty bar me and Jue when the nurse stepped out briefly so i took the initiative and took a quick snap of the ultrasound machine and its varied attachments for you all to see its in the Ultrasound picture section of the photo gallery below

http://www.mylittlecutey.com/gallery/ultrasound/

We took Izzy down to Exmouth beach today and she had a lovely runaround on the beach with Bradley our Labrador.

She is now playing house with her cousin Billy.