First Bath

Late last week, London's umbilical cord came off, which meant that she could get her first "real" bath.  With Connor, we bathed him for a long time in a small, plastic tub that we put in the sink.  However, this time around, the night before I was induced with London, we watched a series of videos from a company called Moms on Call (Thank you, Erin, for introducing them to me...I am so grateful!), which suggested a different method of bathing baby, involving submerging her in a large tub, letting her arms and legs float, and holding her head.

I was a little bit apprehensive about trying this new (to me) method, because Connor always loved taking a bath and his little tub was just fine, but I thought if we were going to do the Moms on Call method, we should try it all, and so we did.

Here are a few photos from London Elise's first bath:

After all of my reservations, she actually loved the bath.  She spent the whole time looking around, wide-eyed, and only cried once she got a little chilly as we were taking her out.

Even though I've experienced all these newborn moments before, I now realize just how fleeting they are, so I am trying my best to savor all the tiny moments, bathing her, smelling her newborn head, every sleepless moment spent feeding or changing her.  I blinked and Connor was 3 1/2.  I know the same will happen with London, so now my goal is to enjoy each moment with both of them, knowing that I won't have them this way forever.