Our little impatient baby girl arrived three weeks early in the morning on May 7th. Her name is Dinah Pearl and she is a lovely little lady. She was born at 12:02am, she weighed 6 lb 1 oz and is 19 1/2" long. So far she is very sweet and patient and likes to cuddle and sleep and eat. We are getting along really well :)
Leah got to come and see her be born. I have a feeling it was an experience that she won't soon forget. She has been talking about it ever since and has excellent ability to recall everything that happened, even how grouchy I got! Oh well, we wanted her to see how real life is and she got to! She loves the baby and is super pleased that she got to see her before I did.
Here she is just born. It is always an odd experience for me to finally meet the little nudger face to face. I seem to always be surprised that they are who they are.
She weighed 6 lbs 1 ounce and looked like one of my babies! It was hard to tell which one, but she for sure looked like a baby of ours. All of the staff agreed that she was lovely, she even did a little modeling before she was an hour old. When the nursery took her to do her newborn screening one of the nurses took some photos of her during her bath and asked us for permission to frame one and put it up in the hallway, they were in the process of redecorating that hallway. So she showed us the photo she had taken and had us sign a paper. It was all a bit strange to be happening at one in the morning while I was in a wheelchair being transferred to the post partum room. But such is life with lovely children.
We brought her home and she has been busy being adored ever since. Her siblings are quite pleased with her and love to help take care of her. The first day home from the hospital I fed her and handed her off to her baby sitters and fell into a deep slumber only to be awakened two hours later by a child returning her, saying she was poopy and hungry. Ahhh, sweet bliss. That sleep was fantastic. Love my kids.
She has been very pleasant, she thinks that since she started out so small that she needs to grow quickly and that means she has put herself on a strict diet. She eats very often and sleeps most of the time. The diet is working, she has gotten almost plumpish.
We are so grateful that she has arrived safely and that she is doing so well. We love our little Dinah-saur, our Pearly Girl.
3 comments:
She's a doll! Congratulations! Another cute addition to your crew. :)
congrats on your new little one!
Haha! It seems like several of your babies have wanted to arrive earlier than expected. They're ready to get busy with this whole earth life thing I guess! Good work mama!
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