Sheila was able to bring her cradle and get it cleaned up. She spend a day refurbishing it; fixing broken pieces, sanding out scratches and staining in dings. It was a beautiful little bed for her. Although, in these photos it looks a bit like a prison.
OK, technically her second bath. We had the nurse in the hospital give us a working tutorial on how best to bathe a newborn. And, yes, I’m not ashamed to say we waited quite a few days before she got her second bath. There was far too much learning and crying and eating to be done before we could even think about a bath. And then there was Indy to contend with.
[Many thanks to Armie for this ingenious little tub device that is soft, flexible and best of all, folds flat for easy storage! Puj tub is definitely one of those nice modern improvements in the world of baby stuff.]
After the second week, we needed a new bed for Indy to sleep in. Called a “Moses bed” because it was a basket made from thick twined reeds, it was portable and lightweight; Those also turned out to be its downfalls – not being transparent and ill-fitting on my dresser also made it an unlikely candidate for safe nighttime sleeping. It was handy to take her from room to room when she napped, but we needed a more permanent solution.
Trying to use the philosophy ‘less is more’, we tried to minimize the amount of baby items in the house in the beginning, only getting items as we needed them. We had a crib on the way from Sheila’s daughter’s home where it has successfully rocked generations of babies to bed, but it wasn’t at our home just yet. In the interim we used this plastic bin from an IKEA push cart that once held my art supplies.
This worked beautifully for the first week, being both portable and see-through, it was the ideal bassinet. Unfortunately, after the second week she outgrew it.
Introducing Indiana Giselle Davis, born Sunday October 12th, 2011 at 8:29am at UCLA Medical Center. A healthy 7lbs 6oz. and 20.5″
