Maayan's first 2 months

Maayan's second month has been both enjoyable and challenging for us. She has a very good schedule, nursing every 3-4 hours and sleeping in between. It seems that she is enjoying herself very much so far. She doesn't fall asleep on Mum anymore, and has learned to put herself to sleep quite well. She still has periods of crying in the evenings, where she lets us appreciate her miniature lung capacity... this girl is a screamer! She also performs her loud screams after the bath, in the car, and conveniently at the supermarket check-out. She wants to let us know that she is tired and needs to "check out" for a while. She likes to fall asleep in the ergo, which is quite handy for us when we need to take her out during the day.
Maayan's nights are very good for her age. Since around 8 weeks, she has started sleeping for 6-8 hour stretches and waking up at around 5am, then going back to sleep until 8:30am!
Maayan has started to get some really good tummy time action, not complaining too much and even lifting her head up a bit.

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Maayan's first 6 weeks

Maayan at 1 week


Maayan at 2 weeks


Maayan at 3 weeks


Maayan at 4 weeks


Maayan is 1 month old. Here is Itamar at 1 month


Maayan is 6 weeks old.

We officially have another baby! Maayan's first 6 weeks have been a time to get to know her personality, and we can so far conclude that she is, as Tracy Hogg puts it, an "Angel Baby". As a baby, Maayan doesn't like dummies and is not such a fan of sucking (Itamar will probably be weaned from dummies on his Bar Mitzvah, and on to cigarettes :-) She nurses very well and is providing Ayelet with a great "second chance" at breastfeeding. Maayan loves to sleep!! For the first couple of weeks, Maayan was very good at sleeping during the day in the pram, an then always falling asleep on Mum at night after nursing. So Mum was her bed for the first 6 weeks or so. Hoping to change this habit soon, and to get a proper routine started. At first, Itamar didn't show much interest in his new sister - more in the fact that he has to share his Mum with her. Using the dummy a lot more, doing pipi in inconvenient places, etc. To get around this issue, we bought Itamar a skateboard that attaches to Maayan's stroller and he loved it! This is his pride and joy, and allows him to get attention and at the same time it allows walking from day care with two kids under coltrol :-) Very cool invention (see photo). He is very tender with Maayan, touching her carefully and saying "Maayani!".

Maayan has a tendency to wail at the top of her miniature lungs when she gets tired or has gas, and this really stresses Itamar out. When we told him she is crying because she has bubbles in her tummy, he translated to Hebrew: יש לה סבון בבטן (she has soap in her tummy). Also when Maayan cries, he says to her in Hebrew: לא לבכות מעייני, אני פה (don't cry Maayani, i'm here). Very cute! Regarding language, Itamar is bilingual, but only speaks in Hebrew, even with Ayelet. If she insists then he speaks to her in English, but his Hebrew is way way more advanced than his English right now. He is aware that Mum's books are in English and Dad's books are in Hebrew, and he can translate things - mainly nouns. His syntax is much more advanced in Hebrew.

Our first 6 weeks have been (surprisingly!) lots of fun, and not so difficult (with a lot of help). We celebrated Passover with family, went on a few trips together with Maayan in the Ergo (see photo), and started getting used to life as a real family. It looks like Maayan is a very good girl, and if she keeps going at this pace, we think we can expect neat and tidy textbooks at school, and many followers. She already has been asked for her phone number from our neighbour's baby so...

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