I took this picture of Anna the first day "alone" -- Eric back to work, Mirthe at the creche, no more baby help (in the Netherlands you get professional help the first eight days from a "kraamhulp", kind of like a doula but not exactly, they're trained to help with just about everything and they clean your house and peel potatoes and take walks with your high-energy first child and tell visitors when it's time to leave, so that you can crawl back under the covers....man it almost makes me want to have another baby, just so I could have another week like that :-) Just me and Anna. She slept almost the whole day. I should have, but didn't -- I think I spent the whole day watching her... my beautiful baby girl.