Skye Lilly at one weekWell here we are over a week into having Skye with us and all is good !
Faye is feeding her lots and lots as she always wants feeding, Faye is a bit shattered by all the feeding but all in all we are coping loads better then with Max.
Skye's weight is already back to her birth weight and that is a great sign.
So why is it all so much easier this time? Well I think there are a few reasons:
1) Fayes labour was a lot shorter.
2) We have had more time to establish our lives with her.
3) We have a bigger house.
4) Been there and done it !!
1 - Rather then starting at lunchtime on the 29th and Max arriving just before midnight on the 30th involving a couple of trips to the hospital and lots of stress and no sleep, Faye had a twinge in the morning and 4pm felt strong contractions and when we arrived at the hospital, about 17.30, she was already 9cm dilated ! Skye Lilly arrived into the world at 20.20.
2 - rather then having everyone round straight away we have basically set our own times and not had anyone round until we was ready for people.
3 - a 2 up and 2 down full of people is no fun whereas a 3 bed house with lounge and diner has enough space for everyone.
4 - Yeah a strange one but simple things like dressing her is quicker, with Max we was both so worried about hurting him we would hardly bend his arms and it would take ages to get ready whereas with Skye we just get on with it and it is done really quick.
She had her first bath today and even that was quite easy :-) I sat there with the new camcorder so was a breeze for me :-)
We have decided that she will be Skye Lilly and no middle name but known as Skye for day to day. Thanks everyone.
On the camcorder front I bought the JVC GZ-MG175 and it is a HDD model and well after a bit more research it is not as Mac friendly as I hoped as the USB is not seen by iMovie HD but is by iMovie 08. iMovie 08 is slated and a reason why I have not bothered with iLife08. To get round it I had to use mpeg streamclip with a Quicktime add in then save as DV format BUT have since worked out that I can just connect the DV cable / firewire from my older DV camcorder to the dock and play it and to see the clip in iMovie and import it. I'm still playing and getting there with it now so will hopefully have something to show you soon. It seems as though JVC sorted it by adding a DV output to the dock on my model.
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Now then Simmo, there is a way around the iMovie08 issue which I read somewhere. When you install iLife08 it installs the new version of iMovie over the top of the old one and replaces the icon in the dock. However before doing this if you create a project in the old version and save it somewhere you can use this to force OSX to open up the old version of iMovie (the one with the blue icon). Then you can use the old one to create a new project.
p.s. Your new baby looks like you!
Glad everything going well, she really is beautiful. Sounds like you're that organised you should be thinking about Baby Simmonds no.3!!!
Great to see you and Matt are as geek as ever when it comes to MACS, I'm sure there's a name for people like you?!?!?!
Take care all of you
Michelle xx
Not sure about No.3, tell you what you have one and we will think of No.3.
What was sadder was that Matt and I then sent a few emails about it.
It saves iMove HD or 06 into an old folder and I need to just use that copy. What i could do if I wanted was to import the camcorder into 08 using USB and export over to 06 BUT using the DV link is working great and I am editing some film so might have a new video soon. I ramble....
She is so cute, congratulations! With the second baby it is always easier because you've seen it all and done it all:) Wish you all happiness!
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