Nice to meet you

And so our life together begins. Four weeks in and we are all still getting use to each other. 

This first month has been hard work. You rely on your mother and I for everything and you are constantly needing something. You are not warm unless we keep you warm, you are hungry until we feed you, you are not clean unless we clean you, you stay in one place until we move you. It is a humbling thing to have someone rely on you for everything, to be responsible for the life of another. I am enjoying fulfilling my due to you. That you did not ask us to bring you here to be with us and now you are so completely reliant on us inspires me to do everything I can to make you comfortable. That, I repeat, is hard work.

Your mother spends the whole day with you. You seem to be uncomfortable a lot of the time and so you barely let her catch her breath, she has to be with you almost constantly. She doesn't mind, she loves you very much, but it is hard work.

You are a bit like a puzzle game with levels of increasing difficulty. Just as we learn to cope with one thing, you bring on a new challenge. First I learned to clean you properly when I changed you, and you peed on me. So I figured out to put something on top of you to catch the pee, and you shat on me. I got that all sorted and you started to vomit milk, so I have a bip on hand to catch the milk, but then who is covering the other end? You peed and shat on me. It's hard work.

We have started feeding you from a bottle. That way I can help you mother, as before it had to be her as she carries the milk. You look me in the eyes when I feed you. I like that a lot. Another thing you do is you make a sighing noise ("Haaaaaa") after you sneeze that melts my heart each time you do it.

You don't really know how to control your features yet, but I like to pretend that you smile at me from time to time. Every now and then you fall asleep on my chest, it is the greatest sensation I have experienced up till now. So as I said, it's hard work getting to know you. Is it worth it? Hell yes, son <3