Walk walk walk

For the first two weeks they both were in a hospital. At first maternity ward for a week (standard procedure) and then in an actual children's hospital. Some blood toxin levels high or something. Turned out to be nothing, just a leftover from stressful birth.

Now that they are both home, new life and new routines may begin. At first I woke up every time he cried for food, but over time got used to it and now I mostly sleep through the night without remembering those wake-ups.
It is said, that fresh air is good for babies, so I'm having long walks every day. Throw the kid into the carriage aaaand off we go for a couple of hours. Luckily the weather is fine and a supply of podcasts is quite sufficient. At a normal pace can cover 12-15 kilometers in a go, turns out to be a quite nice exercise.

Otherwise we are quite lucky. Some say that parenting is mostly talking about crap (literally), but at first it's more about farting. Wouldn't have even suspected, that such a natural thing as flatulence is actually an acquired skill. Our little dude learned it early on and is farting like a machine gun. Some acquaintances are complaining that their babies are crying due to stomach pains, which arise from inability to release inner pressure buildup.

Since we are trying to be more or less eco-friendly, we decided to go with reusable cloth diapers. Basically, a swath of cotton cloth (kinda like cheesecloth) folded into groin-width strip held together with teethed rubber bands and wrapped around in water(wee)tight "pants". He goes through some 10-12 a day (sometimes more), that would make ~350 a month or over 4000 a year. Multiply that by 2-2.5 years kids can't hold their stuff in, you get roughly 10 000 diapers. At 300g each, that would be 3 metric tons of that absorbent gel + plastic which might outlive the person themselves. Think about it. Instead we have a bit under 30 of them and wash them every or every other day. The inconvenience of washing and folding them is pretty minor.