Sarah

We arrived home from the hospital yesterday morning and all is going well. I feel fantastic compared to how I felt after Nathaniel.

Here is a little run down of the last week. We went in Monday morning to have the baby and the big question on my mind was whether I would have to be knocked out like I was for Nathaniel or be awake. The anesthesiologist kept trying to do a spinal, but it wasn't working. He thought he was just about in the right place then he would hit my back bone. After over an hour of being hunched over on the operating table, he decided to try an epidural needle in my back then thread a spinal through that. Success! I was so happy because I really wanted to see one of my kids be born. The freezing was pretty much instantaneous and was a very strange feeling or lack of feeling to say the least.

Once I was frozen, about 5 minutes later, out came Sarah! Just as my obstetrician was about to pull her out, she and the other surgeon started laughing like crazy. I figured that wasn't a bad thing, that most likely I wasn't about to die or anything. Then she said, "Look at the size of that baby!!" and all I could think was, "Great, another monster baby". Sure enough, 10 lbs and 5 oz later, the chubster emerged. She let out a big holler, which was great to hear, they brought her over to show me-she looked like a giant purple plum then wrapped her up and did a few tests on her. In a few minutes, they brought her over to Iain and we got to coo over her for about 10 minutes before Iain and the nurse went to the recovery room with Sarah to wait for me. After that, I just kept feeling better and better and things are going really well.

She is a great baby so far-sleeps, eats, looks around for a bit and then repeats the cycle. We are totally enthralled by her and I love her dark hair-it is almost black. She has big blue eyes, the exact same colour as Iain's. Nathaniel thinks she is quite funny but he wasn't very impressed when he woke up in the middle of the night last night and came into our room and wanted me to cuddle him and I was feeding Sarah. At 2AM, all 4 of us were in our bed, wide awake. Iain was not overly impressed but I thought it was rather humourous. Things got better after that and we all ended up with a good sleep.

So far, having two rats hasn't been as terrifying as I was thinking it would be, thankfully.