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SIMPLY LIVING FRANCE
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PARENTING DIARIES Pregnancy In France part 4
Tia Malcolm
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ur first day together. Everyone gave me the advice to ‘sleep when the baby is sleeping’ but I couldn’t, not because it was noisy, quite the opposite. I had my own room, TV and internet, it was quite plush but all I kept doing was looking at him. ’I created him’ was all I could think, and he was utterly perfect. I was all fingers and thumbs on the first day. I didn’t want to hurt him, after all he was so tiny and when it came to the first nappy change, which I will never forget, it was hilarious! He was on the baby changing unit, I leaned over and he pee’d straight into my ear! Quite the awakening!
What the midwives had neglected to tell me in the parenting books, is that when I change a little boy’s nappy, keep the nappy until I have everything ready to go because his aim is amazing! Over the course of the next couple of days, I had a steady stream of friends coming to see Alfie, which was lovely and it broke the long post partum days up. I was in hospital for almost a week from
