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[ailbhe]

We are all home and well, and I am still too tired to write the birth story up :) Hardly surprising, given how ill we were before going in.

I'm very happy. Rob's very happy. Linnea's very happy ("Where's my baby sister? I NEED him!") and Emer's very happy. My mother's very happy - I can hear her singing to Emer now.

Birth went well, healing is going well, Emer came out of the oven fully cooked and ready for the universe, feeding is going well - tandem feeding coming soon to an icon near you - and I have plans for getting involved in a group aiming to improve maternity services in the hospital where I delivered both times.

Emer has HAIR. And is unfeasibly tiny. 7lb 2.5 oz is a lot lot smaller than 9lb 14oz. She's 1.5oz bigger than I was.

Oh, and this time? Her first bowel movement was passed outside the womb, so we got to see it. Wow. (She also peed all over the obstetrician; ob said "She just weed all over me!" and I said "Good girl!" for some reason.)

Comments

[tammylc.livejournal.com]

Oh, and congratulations, of course. I'm so happy that things went well for all of you. The day that you posted your last post I was thinking about you all day and talking about it to both my husband and a coworker. "She said the birth was like a party. Most people like parties, so that's probably a good thing. I really hope so!"

[baratron.livejournal.com]

"She said the birth was like a party. Most people like parties, so that's probably a good thing. I really hope so!"

That was my reaction too. I found myself desperately trying to remember the conversation we'd had about Myers-Briggs personality types (many years ago) and whether Ailbhe was introverted or extroverted :)