My First Cry - It Was A Joyful Noise

Hee - so you all know the absolutely smashing news? I have a brand new baby brother. And he is A-DORABLE! So peaceful and calm for a little man who's only been in the world 14 hours!


Here's the story...

These last few days I've been feverishly working on an assignment that was due midnight tonight. On the way home from work I did a library crawl, looking for critical stuff to quote in the essay. I got home, sat down at the computer and began to type... and type... at about midnight I started worrying about not getting any sleep. But I kept going and finished the thing, all 1500 words, at 3.10am exactly. Emailed it off, got up, put pajamas on, climbed into bed... and leapt out again about five minutes later when the phone rang! Scrambled back into my clothes, woke up Jayden (who looked like death warmed up - sorry Jay!) and danced about like a crazy woman waiting for our grandparents to pick us up. Jayden had a sore throat and decided to get some honey - somehow managed to flick an ant off the jar into his eye! Poor lad - I was so full of beans that it seemed HILARIOUS - but it must've really stung...
So, after waiting for what seemed like forever, Grandma & Papa showed up and drove us to the hospital. I won't say too much about the labour - it wasn't anything like in movies, with the woman lying down and screaming and stuff, but there was a scary moment when the silly doctor woman came in and was all bossy AND gave Mum penicillin, which she's allergic to. That was incredibly scary. Mum didn't have a reaction - God be praised - but they had to give her adrenalin, which slowed the labour right down. It was taking so long that the midwives were starting to talk about hooking her up to machines and having an induction and stuff (which freaked Mum right out) but then the contractions started up again and Taiya, Daddy, Grandma and I watched our darling boy be born, at 7.35(ish)am! It was really, really quick and he was pretty quiet (also, unlike in movies) at first - but it was just so amazing to be there, right as this little human being came into the world and breathed for the very first time.

I left at 11am to go home and sleep, which I did until 5pm, when we went for a visit to see the new little chappie again. He's so perfect and lovely, it's hard to even begin to say. His skin is all soft and velvetty, he recognises our voices - he stopped crying and tried to look at Mum when she spoke - and he opens his eyes and stares at you with a dazed, unfocussed sort of calm. Amazing.