Maayan has arrived!

On March 2nd, Maayan came into the world! She was born at 12:10pm and weighed 2.36kg. The birth was a very good experience and it went very well, even without epidural(!) She is a good kid, causing no problems for Mum, right from Day 1.

Maayan's first moments right after popping out:

From the beginning, Maayan looks very much like Itamar did as a baby.

In preparation for his new "toy", Itamar had a Big Brother celebration at day care, and he brought photos of Maayan to show his friends. He also brought his friends yummy chocolate balls (which were prepared the night before the scheduled induction by his excited mother). Maayan started nursing well from the beginning (after a few pointers from lactation consultants), and enjoys sleeping most of the day, waking up to eat every 3-4 hours. These are two things we learned after Itamar's birth: (1) prepare for breastfeeding before the baby comes, and (2) Don't try to wake a sleeping baby to eat every 3 hours like they tell you at the hospital. Let them sleep, and they will wake up when they are hungry.

Here are all the photos from Maayan's first week with us.

Appropriately, the name of the blog has now changed, so we include here the original name, just for the record:

Itamar's Adventures - הילד העברי הראשון שלנו