19th post

Sophie

Hello People!

First of all, thanks for all the 'good lucks' and 'all the bests' to me, and the new addition to our family! Means a lot to us!Wow. What a week. Sophie lies snoring in my bed as I type this at 7.20am, Wednesday morning. She is exactly 1 week old! In case you didn't catch it, she came EARLY, not just in terms of weeks, but also in terms of timing - the doctor hadn't even reached the hospital yet (though that didn't stop him from charging his specialist fee!) and I was alone in the labour room, dozing - courtesy of the epidural (lovely, lovely epidural!). My champion husband was in the next room watching the world cup highlights. I felt the contractions coming hard, but didn't think anything about it as they were like that the whole night/morning. I thought, 'what the hell, just sleep it through lah'). Next thing I know, I felt something 'plopping' wetly between my legs...I put my hand down there and felt her head, and called the nurses in!!! (BTW, shouldn't they be monitoring the contractions from the nurse's station???!!!). I also had my mobile, and was frantically calling Daniel, but he had put his mobile in my handbag - in the labour room! I was frantic, not only becaus this was MAJOR (I was worried because Sophie wasn't making a sound), but because he was going to miss Sophie being born! The nurses were calm, and helped to quickly deliver her shoulders, but they were a little quick to cut the umbilical cord. Alas, Daniel missed it. I was telling them to call him, and when they finally did, she was all wrapped up and I was delivering the placenta!He was in a daze because he had only left the room to watch the telly next door for a few minutes and didn't believe the nurse when she told him that his daughter was born! He was like, "Yeah, right!" and continued watching tv! Can you believe that! Anyway, he was just grateful that there were no complications (seeing that the doctor was MIA and all that), and his girls were fine.I was just grateful I didn't TEAR.

Whooooooo-hoooooo!!!!!What excitement! Milo is acting pretty normal, on top of all this, so that's a plus. He tried feeding her a popudam on one of his visits to the hospital! Hmmm. That, my dears, is normal Milo behaviour.Sophie really looks like a 'Sophie'. I will upload photos as soon as I can!!! Promise! By this weekend, at the very latest!

Sophie Shiloh Aman Kraehenbuehl was born on Wednesday morning, June 14th 2006. She is a healthy (albeit somewhat jaundiced) 3.8kg and a lovely, quiet little girl.