4 months, counting and audible

Today Jakob turned 4 months and the past weeks have brought a lot of changes and new things. The probably most obvious and at the same time most surprising is that the little man has got two teeth by now, one of which broke through more than a month ago! While the initial teething could hardly be relieved as Jakob has not entered the oral stage yet and did not use toys, fingers or anything else to bite on and get relief from the pain, he has in the meantime started to do so. This behaviour of chewing on everything/anything has probably been the starting point for another premiere, our first illness and stay in hospital due to an infection with the a norovirus. Quite obviously this one we could have done easily without!

Growth in size and weight continued as well, even though the few days in hospital and disruption in normal eating rhythm slowed down the growth a little bit, but we are at ca 65 cm and more than 7.3 kg anyway. The most recent developments make our lives a little bit more complicated and cumbersome again, as Jakob fell back to behaviour from his very early days: he does not sleep a lot, cries, or better said screams a lot and doe not like to be put to bed or lay him down in general. What makes things even worse this time round is that he is extremely focussed on kerstin and screams as soon as someone else holds him, plays with him or tries to entertain the prince. Even Markus has got no chance to calm Jakob down and so it is pretty difficult to allow Kerstin to relax and recover unless one wears earplugs. The "honeymoon" with our new neighbours definitely is over and now they have to realise that the area is not as quiet, as they might have expected.

A very rare picture these days: J sleeping peacefully

We are pretty sure though that the current phase will not last forever and that soon again Markus and friends and family will be able to spend time with Jakob but without Kerstin again in a calm way. Until we reach that again, we will be patient and keep on saying: "It is only a phase"

Jakob, Kerstin & Markus