The Beginning!

When I arrived yesterday I thought that why stress things like getting the blog started, it's more than a week until the small one is due. Well, this morning the same small one decided to prove her father wrong, less than 12 hours after he arrived. A trait she inherited from her mother, if anyone had any doubts.

At three o'clock Sara started complaining that she had a bellyache and couldn't sleep. She tried to keep me awake by explaining that those were actually contractions. Ok, I thought, good practice since we need those muscles later. After an hour, where she still got a contraction every now and then my dear wife exclaimed, that at least it was good timing. Hmm, false labor I thought and when my wife figured out she would get much support from me she decided to wake up her sister. At five o'clock Sara decided that she wanted to go to hospital and sent her sister to wake me up. (FYI Our apartment is upstairs from her fathers place) Tired as I was I decided to go with it since, after all, Sara's the one who is actually in pain.

So after we arrived at the hospital at 05.15 it took another 5h and 40min before my daughter was finally free!!! And I must say that she's the most beautiful conehead I've ever seen. (The conehead was partially caused by the fact that she wanted to come out backwards, not behind first but facing the opposite direction as the "norm" and partially because her poor painstricken mother got abit confused about when to push and when not too.

Well, Viviana Isabella Redmond was born 48cm long and weighing 2.958g at 10:55.
Sara got some problems with excessive bloodloss and had to stay away for awhile, and during that time they kept my daughter "locked away". Afterwards I found out that it's a privacy thing. I had the company of Sara's sister, aunt and a friend of hers and since Sara hadn't signed a paper say who besides me and her are allowed to see the baby they kept her away... and she didn't have any clothes. My bad, the clothes were in our room, but I never even thought that she might need them....

Well, here are some pictures. (Not the best quality but the lighting was poor and bright lights, incl. flash was prohibited)

Yesterday, trying to figure out how to put the stroller together!


Sara back from her "pit-stop", waiting for Viviana!


Sorry, the store is closed (Not in business yet)!


Daddy is VERY fond of his latest "toy"


A small wave and hello before it is time for...


the beautiful conehead to get some sleep!