Friday, September 23, 2005
First morning at home
Hello, here is the new mother. I'm back again!!!
This is incredible, I'm still and totally gobsmacked. No words can express what the last days, especially the 20th (Due = delivery date) have been, for Luc and me.
It's the most wonderful thing that can happen to you.
I'd like to say "Thank you to you all" for all your nice messages and best wishes. I'm still so emotional that I start crying for happiness when I see all you lovely words. Thank you so much, it's such a blessing. I'd love to reply to you individually but I hope you understand that this is a bit too time-consuming at the moment. But sooner or later I'm sure we have the chance and time to speak or see you all.
Well, now I sit here in front of my laptop and take the moment to send you a quick personal update. It's 8am and I just had to express some milk to ease the pain I have in my breasts before baby wakes up. His feeding time starts again in 30 minutes. Unfortunately the expressing wasn't very helpful, although, against all my concerns I had about this, quite some amount came out. :-) Besides that I'm fine, but still in quite some pain. But I hope this will get better soon. My weight loss so far only 5 kilos, but I guess this will happen gradually.
Later this morning the midwife will come and show us how to bath a baby. This will be his first bath after birth and I can't wait for this. There are soooooo many things to learn now. Incredible how helpless this all makes you feel, but luckily we have good midwifes to help us.
Anyway, I'm ready for the baby now.
¶ 7:47 am
