Before Amelynne was born Amanda and Myles gave us a huge amount of clothes (thank you so much :)) and amongst them was this cute stripey hat. While I was very pregnant I lovingly washed all her clothes and fiddled with them and dreamt about actually having a baby wearing them. I tried to imagine what she would look like, who she would be and how it would feel. As I was packing my hospital bag I popped the hat in at the last minute for fun.

When Amelynne was born it felt so strange and surreal. A part of me felt so right holding my tiny daughter for the first time, and at the same time it felt so unreal and dreamlike. Amelynne’s temperature was a little bit low and the midwife asked if we had a hat she could wear and I excitedly said yes and had Josh dig it out. The hat was too big and swamped her little head but I loved that she was wearing it. In a really tangible way I knew that she had a arrived and that the baby in the hat was real.

She wore the hat for the whole first day and this is a photo of her at 11 hours old.

And later that day with Mum

This week Amelynne was wearing the hat again and I couldn’t believe how much she has grown. She is now such a part of our lives and our family. Although she definitely feels real now, I still can’t believe that she is really here, she is really our daughter and she is here to stay. I also can’t believe how quickly she is growing and changing.

So this is Amelynne in the hat at 11 weeks old, it fits a little better now.

We’ll see how it fits when she is 11 months old :).