hmmm, there is that 'everything is going to be great' thing about new year isnt there? It pretty much sets you up for a fall. I dont really have that view although its hard to resist wanting to shake things up, draw lines in the sand and start again y'know? Nothing like a new life to make you start thinking about starting afresh. Someone asked us over the christmas holidays if we are planning on doing anything different with number four baby….and i think our joint answer was……a remarkable and profound 'er……'
Yeah, really 'cos we dont know. We dont have a 'formula' that has necessarily worked with all of our kids. I have never followed one of those 'baby books' with my newborns. I read a paragraph of one certain infamous book when i had Isaac and thought 'nope!" I generally go with what works for the baby and what works for me. I do completely disagree with the 'that newborn is just manipulating you now' approach that was very popular a few years ago, the hard training school for the very new baby. A baby has known nothing but closeness for 9 months, sounds, your heartbeat and your movements and sure the adjustment to a bed, on your own in the silence has got to be hard…im not saying it doesn't work…i know it does, i've seen it, just not for me that's all. So im guessing we are just going to get on with it, some things will be the same as with the other three and other things wont which sounds so vague for a soon to be mother of four….but its probably that approach that keeps us in the game and not beating ourselves up at every failure or crappy night's sleep. Like I think i have said before this is a season in my life in which there are so many blessings that can easily get lost if I focus too much on the lows. It wont be like this forever, heck one day Ben and I are going to be the only people living in our house!!!! Now there's a thought!!
So the anticipation is quite high amongst the kids now…we told them the baby would be here after christmas and obviously that has been and gone and there is no sign of the baby, which in their young minds probably doesnt make any sense but we keep saying 'soon, soon'
So here we are three weeks till due date. Isaac was born within a week of this time, Maisie within two and Poppy within nearly four!! So who knows…
37 weeks.
