Introducing... Sophie Burtness

Fifty minutes after midnight on September 20, 2010, Sophie Francine Burtness was born! We long anticipated her arrival and it has been wonderful to have her with us. She is now almost 8 weeks old and is doing really well. She is sleeping amazingly at night-time and is a happy baby during the day. We have really enjoyed being a little family and going on little outings together and introducing her to all our friends. Neither of us realised how much we would enjoy being parents and having a little one to care for and hang out with.

We are glad to have made it through the first six weeks. Man, they were and hard! Lack of sleep and post-partum hormones are not a good combination. Add to that, figuring out her cues, learning breastfeeding, working through the pain of breastfeeding and waiting for the healing of, you know, down there, it definitely was a challenging time. Lots of ups and downs, joys and frustrations, laughter and crying! Moments where we loved it, and moments that are some of the hardest I've gone through!

However, we made it through and feel like we know her cues, know how to help her get to sleep, have got breastfeeding figured out, have her sleeping for longer and longer stints at nighttime. More sleep for her means more sleep for us means we're all just happier!

Anyway, I did a mini-shoot with her a couple of weeks ago and here are some of the photos: