Heidi knows that staying in late is a good idea now, and so we woke much later than expected. Heidi also does not wake until prompted at the moment, which is rather helpful.

We go into town and park on the seafront on what looks like a very sunny day. However, it’s a north easterly so it is much colder and so Heidi gets extra layers in the pram. As the sun is bright it is difficult to steer her out of the glare, and she squints and growls when this happens. Soon with the motion of the pram on our potholed pavement she is fast asleep.

A visit to the butchers and then a few other shops sees people peering at her. She is in a red polka dot dress, so looks lady-like for the first time in her life. No hats yet though, as her head needs to grow into them.

Once back to the sea front we watch some containers being craned on to the Green, although not much happens. Heidi also is not very interested.

We then head off to my mum and dads, where Heidi picks up some more gifts. Dad has been cutting the grass and hedges so all looks good. I was going to wander down to the off licence with him and Heidi, but it is a fair way and my feet are aching a bit too.

Once back at home, the midwife calls (and a student) to give Heidi her vitamin K orally and to do the heel prick. We chose oral Vit K as it is normally given via an IM injection. Not sure why injections are the preferred route, but there was once a paper on perhaps an increase in childhood leukaemia when Vit K was administered by injection, so we opted for oral in the end. No one suggested otherwise and most of the nurses or staff thought they would opt for the same in our circumstances.

That went down a treat although the heel prick caused a bit of grumpiness. She bled well which was good, as Fred never did when it was done to him. I think they did more than one attempt.

After that we went to Sainsbury’s as we are light on some stuff here. Nice and quiet although Heidi again slept well in there. She hated the blast from the chillers in some places so we hurried through there. Only a few old dears peered in and cooed, with one man guessing she was a week old. She was squashed up a bit with shopping piled up around her though.