Home again

We made it home and so far we have it all nicely under control. Or that is how we felt until we got home safe and Leon was asleep. And then a chain reaction started: after the first feeding he got hiccups which prevented him from falling asleep until Rita put him in the baby sling. There he passed out in a nanosecond till the next diaper change. Soon came the second faux pas, when Rita managed to put accidentally the nappy rash cream on his ass causing big shouting till washed away :) Thus arrived the second feeding round for another hour with lots of screaming, then expressing milk, which Rita wanted to save for the night. That was the plan - he finished it all right after Rita completed expressing it. And the hiccups started again.... And here I stop listing all the "first night" challenges before you think it is all a nightmare. Actually despite of all these difficulties it is very rewarding to be with him, seeing his fulfilled expression with a half-smile driven by a staffed belly and then an extended yawn with a big stretch. So far not much else makes him so content, but it is good enough for now. Finally he went to sleep at 11 pm and gave us a good 6 hours rest with a good feeding at dawn since when he has been sleeping "like milk".

By now we know the secret to make him sleep -enough food makes him let everyone else rest. I guess the next big challenge will come once he gets sick - we will not have a clue how to handle him. The only thing we have not figured out is why he gets hiccups. 

Lastly on his behalf - thank you for all the wishes from around the world!!! Forgot to mention that right from the beginning our little boy became an illegal crossing the German-Polish border without any papers as we have not managed to get him a birth certificate yet... It will be another funny experiment to get him registered first in Germany, then in Poland and finally in Hungary...