Isabel at Day 4
Would you say their features are alike? Perhaps. However, the sisters are like night and day as far as their infant habits go.
Here's a slightly painful memory of what we went through with Hannah.
Taken at day 8, we were already experimenting with the "Tiger in the Trunk" carrying position, thought to reduce colic in infants. Thankfully we were also 4 years younger, and staying with grandparents who could share out the burden of calming a screaming baby for at least 2 hours every evening.
Isabel seems a calmer person, with occasional unsettled evenings, but nothing quite as dramatic as our darling firstborn.
Daughter number 2 sleeps beautifully most nights, waking up only once or twice for feeds, then swiftly dropping off back to a peaceful slumber.
Having braced ourselves for Hannah-like colic attacks, we could hardly believe that we were getting decent hours of sleep right from day one.
But of course, looking after a baby is still exhausting work, but for everyone?!
The BOTTLE was our next battle with Hannah. Both girls were introduced to a bottle of expressed milk at about week 4 to give mummy a bit of a life.
Hannah, being in general a very intense (shall I just say fussy?) baby, screamed murder for a long time before succumbing to the charms of her experienced grandmother.
Hannah
Certain that Isabel would go through the same anguish, we were again pleasantly surprised our little angel took to the bottle at the first attempt, after making a few faces.
Isabel
Surely we have learnt by now that Isabel is nothing like Hannah, even if they do resemble each other.
What is YOUR verdict?
