I love going and taking care of mother and baby for a week or so. I figure that with 6 kids and 6 grandkids that I've tended as newborns, I might be getting to be somewhat of an expert. I've had a lot of experience, but newborns are still somewhat of a mystery. I've always felt there should be a readout on their foreheads telling you if they were hungry, tired or just gassy! I'm not quite the expert that my mother was with 28 grandchildren, but I'm working on it.
Like my mother did for me, I take the night shift except for when the baby needs to be fed, allowing the new mother to get the sleep she needs. Baby William was a model baby and for the 11 days I was there, I had to wake him every 3 hours (or sometimes 4 if I overslept!) for the night feedings. There was only one time that he had trouble going back to sleep after a feeding. He was quite the overachiever.
I got a chance one morning to have a little photo session with baby William when he was about 10 days old.
The proud mother
father
and grandmother
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I seriously want to stroke his cheek and back. So sweet!
ps - can you come and take care of me for a week if I make Gemma act like a baby?
Well look at you little anne geddes!! I wondered how people take pictures of babies like that.
Are you for hire?
What a great grandmother you are! And oh the love the little baby's going to get with two sisters!
Ahhh, he looks so soft and squishy! Perfect.
You are SUCH a good grandma! What a saint you are to take the night shift! =o) Love it. Love all the pictures. He is too precious.
Congratulations! He's a lucky kid to have you for a grandma!
What a beautiful baby. You are a much nicer g-ma than I am.
Beautiful pictures! (The baby's OK too.)
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