Just home from the hospitalOur daughter, Hazel Ósk, was born on 28th August. She is now a little more than 5 weeks old and is doing fine. We are learning how to look after and what her different squeaks and calls mean. We are very thankful that she is a calm, generally happy baby and sleeps well at night. We were both really delighted by the great support we had in the hospital and that we were lucky enough to have two midwives from Neskaupstaður helping us through the birth.
I am amazed how the details of her birth have faded and gone fuzzy already. I do recall though that the birth took longer than I expected and I was very tired since I was too excited to sleep when the contractions started during the night .. but all of us were fine afterwards. I was so glad Óli could stay with me and help with lots of support and affection. I am now amazed that our time is taken up with a small selection of little tasks which rapidly fill the day. However, we have been venturing out more and more and have been for several walks and taken Hazel with us to the music sessions, a lecture, a meditation class, Kólaportið and the library. Tonight we all head out to a concert in the Kópavogur Irish Festival.
Just before going for her first "walk", a few weeks oldI am delighted that we can get around outside now (with some planning) since today we are celebrating the first decent snowfall. Autumn lasted a week or so with beautiful golden and red leaves but now I´d say winter is here. Esja has been white for days and now Kópavogur is too. Tree and snow pictures coming once I next get a chance to come back to the internet!
