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New fabric

For now we are out of the hospital. Originally we should have stayed till today, but they sent us home Saturday. Tomorrow they will take a blood test again. I hope then everything will be settled. Wish us luck!

When we got home my new fabrics had arrived. Hopefully I will have time to use them soon. They are all for specific projects except the insects one.

In the hospital ... again

I am sorry for the lack of posts, but the last weeks were a bit exhausting, especially for my nerves. The little one still has neonatal jaundice (Neugeborenengelbsucht). The doctor sent us to the hospital two weeks ago, but they sent us away, because it could come from my breast milk. Last week our midwife suggested to pause breast feeding and afterwards the little one looked really better. But of course the doctor wants to know exactly so she sent us to hospital again.

I am all for searching for a cause of the jaundice, but why do We have to stay in hospital? I could give him the bottle at home. I hope after these days it is finally settled and we can have some calm weeks. Right now I am really pissed off by doctors and hospitals, especially because nobody tells you anything. I had to ask how long we make a breast feeding pause and all the other details. And I hate it that my little one is not with me, but on the other end of the ward.

Wish me luck that this will be all over soon!

Scrapbook

Since I was a child I had to collect all kind of paper scraps that I found pretty or holt precious memories. Over the time I had quite a box full of these. So some while ago I decided to put these all in an album. Today I want to share some of the finished pages.

Lifesaver

Sometimes it's the little things that count. Like this pacifier which the little one finally liked after refusing all others. It saved me some nerves the last days when he was in a bad mood.

More Pens

When I discovered that the Muji pens are missing some colors I bought these felt tipped pens at Etsy. And I think these are great for the price. The have a really fine tip and there are so many colors. But now I have enough pens to last me a while.

Nursing pads

Because I am no big fan of disposable things, but my bought ones are not nearly enough to keep me dry, I made myself some nursing pads. Fortunately I had everything at home. I even managed to make them despite having a grumpy little one, who did not want to sleep at all.

I simply cut circles out of a molton fabric and then layered two of these and a cotton fabric. Then I sewed all this together with my serger. Easy and quick! I was a bit lazy and did not cut circles out of the cotton,  but used my serger to cut it in shape. So I saved some time.

I now have nine pairs of selfmade ones and three bought ones. I hope these will keep me dry at least for some days.