Labour Day...
was August 29th for me, though to be honest, not much labour was involved at all. Went in at 8:30, they fitted me for an IV (was the most painful part of the process- apparently my veins look upon needles like Dracula looks at garlic knots, and they would shrink away and hide each time I got poked. Took them three nurses and 5 attempts. I look like a pin cushion.) and then took me in, gave me a spinal anaesthetic and got started. At 11:06 AM, we had a new baby girl, with a FULL head of VERY dark hair, who weighed 8 pounds, 5 ounces. They say that she was probably born about 2 weeks before term, and she would have easily been 9 pounds if we had waited that long. I am very glad we didn't.
She has my long fingers and toes, my eye shape and my olive complexion, but her dad's chipmunk cheeks. Pretty cute, in that newborn Winston Churchill way.
Anyway, it took us a while to decide on a name, and we ended up with one of the first that we had come up with- her name is Calliope Lilou Smith. Rora has long decided that she should be called Rose, essentially naming the new baby after herself (Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty is called Rose while living with Flora, Fauna and Merriwether), and while Kevin was more than willing to give the baby the middle name Rose, I'm not a fan myself, so I told her that if she wanted, she could call the baby Rose- no problem. I mean, we call Rora "Bug" and always have- so Rose is definitely an improvement on that. So, she has either been baby sister or Rosie since then. Good enough for me. Rora actually only met the baby last night, and has already proven to be more maternal than I am- she puts the baby's things away in more appropriate places, has fed her, wiped her face, brushed her hair, and sang her songs. I'm actually feeling pretty lucky, all in all.
Only snag right now is that apparently the baby and I have quite the incompatible blood types. I'm O+, she's A+, and therefore she is Coombs positive for jaundice. because of that, she is stuck on a bili blanket 24/7, and neither of us can go out in the nice weather. Hopefully she will be off it in a few days. As of right now, she looks like Kryptonite.
Oh, that and I'm bored. Bleah! Hey- maybe I'll update this more regularly with my free time! Or I'll remove the paneling from the living room! Or go stir crazy!
Guess which is most likely!
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