The Things We Don't Want to Forget
The first four weeks have flown by. Harry has grown and is turning from a newborn into a baby. It is wonderful and overwhelming all at the same time. We are realizing that the sleep deprevation combined with biology conspire to ensure one starts to forget the details of those first wonderful, mind-blowing weeks. So here are our attempts to remember some of the things we don't want to forget:
- The overwhelming maternal feelings when Harry came out into the world and Dr Thompson put him on my chest. He lay there and made the same movements on my chest as he did when he was inside my belly. But now he made all of these little cooing noises that made me cry.
- How beautiful the weather looked on the day he was born.
- How grateful I was to Dan and Mummy for all of their support and help during the labor. I couldn't have done it without them.
- The feeling at the hospital - most of time we spent in the labor and delivery room we were laughing and joking - the time in the postnatal ward was also mostly happy, we had music playing and it was a little cocoon of love.
- How the pediatrician came to visit us at midnight the night that Harry was born.
- How I felt when they took Harry away to be circumsized...the first time I felt truly helpless
- How I felt when we put Harry skin-to-skin with me, he slept, and then woke up and rooted until he found my breast to feed.
- How Harry's eyes looked sapphire blue in the first weeks.
- The wave of emotions that came over me in those first days in the hospital - love for my baby, for my husband, anticipation, mixed in with trepidation.
- How excited we felt coming home from the hospital.
- The amazing job my body did bringing this little being into the world - it is still changing even now and it has developed the ability to keep feeding him now that he is in the world with us.
- When my milk came in, and Harry realized it, how excited he started looking when I put him on my breast - arms outstretched and shaking, eyes wide and full of anticipation, and little excited grunts - made the pain worth it for the first time. :-) Harry does love the boobies. :-)
- The first time I had skin on skin contact with Harry - this little being lying on me as babies have for all time.
- The moment we could distinguish between the "I'm hungry" cry and the "I've just peed on myself" cry.
- The new feeling of waking up suddenly because you want to make sure the baby's OK.
- Returning home and noticing how everything in our house has fur on it.
- How proud we felt when Harry learned to take the pacifier. Who knew that a baby opening his mouth could engender such feelings. :-)
- The first time it really dawned on us that we are a family and will be from now on. Such a wonderful thing!
- The overwhelming maternal feelings when Harry came out into the world and Dr Thompson put him on my chest. He lay there and made the same movements on my chest as he did when he was inside my belly. But now he made all of these little cooing noises that made me cry.
- How beautiful the weather looked on the day he was born.
- How grateful I was to Dan and Mummy for all of their support and help during the labor. I couldn't have done it without them.
- The feeling at the hospital - most of time we spent in the labor and delivery room we were laughing and joking - the time in the postnatal ward was also mostly happy, we had music playing and it was a little cocoon of love.
- How the pediatrician came to visit us at midnight the night that Harry was born.
- How I felt when they took Harry away to be circumsized...the first time I felt truly helpless
- How I felt when we put Harry skin-to-skin with me, he slept, and then woke up and rooted until he found my breast to feed.
- How Harry's eyes looked sapphire blue in the first weeks.
- The wave of emotions that came over me in those first days in the hospital - love for my baby, for my husband, anticipation, mixed in with trepidation.
- How excited we felt coming home from the hospital.
- The amazing job my body did bringing this little being into the world - it is still changing even now and it has developed the ability to keep feeding him now that he is in the world with us.
- When my milk came in, and Harry realized it, how excited he started looking when I put him on my breast - arms outstretched and shaking, eyes wide and full of anticipation, and little excited grunts - made the pain worth it for the first time. :-) Harry does love the boobies. :-)
- The first time I had skin on skin contact with Harry - this little being lying on me as babies have for all time.
- The moment we could distinguish between the "I'm hungry" cry and the "I've just peed on myself" cry.
- The new feeling of waking up suddenly because you want to make sure the baby's OK.
- Returning home and noticing how everything in our house has fur on it.
- How proud we felt when Harry learned to take the pacifier. Who knew that a baby opening his mouth could engender such feelings. :-)
- The first time it really dawned on us that we are a family and will be from now on. Such a wonderful thing!
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