These first 4 weeks have flown by but somehow I can’t imagine a time without him. I won’t pretend to know what I’m doing yet or try to sound like I know what I’m talking about – but I do think we’re finding our way slowly but surely. Having a baby is definitely humbling. We face new questions every day and what the ‘manuals’ can’t tell us – the visiting public health nurse is only too happy to help us with. She arrives on a bicycle and totes a hefty knowledge.

We’ve had quite a lot of visits from friends and family now that I count them up – and here I’d thought we’d be more cut off. There are a lot of things that aren’t like I’d thought they’d be. I also thought I’d crave a babysitter. Now I can’t imagine letting anyone else take care of Thor. No one else knows him like we do and well.. I don’t want to miss out on anything.

In Denmark the public health department arranges a mother’s group for you with five other women living close by who’ve had a baby around the same time you have so that you can meet up once a week to drink coffee, compare notes and offer/receive a bit of support with the million questions, feelings and challenges that come with all this change. It’s ideal. So far our group’s met once and agreed to add fitness activity to our meet-ups: at the gym or for some kind of swimming. Even more ideal.

The pace overall is slowed way down (which is so not me), my to-do list is horribly neglected and my hair probably needs a wash. And I’m smiling.