The doctors let us go home today, which is awesome, because it’s only Day 4 and they originally said they were keeping me until Day 7. Harper and I are so happy to be at home with Doug instead of in a hospital room with no Internet access! All updates of the last few days have been via our dedicated scribes… Thank you, scribes!
Doug, Jack and I just indulged ourselves in the sparkling shiraz, smoked salmon, leg ham, camembert and cranberry sauce we had planned for the post-birth meal and now Harper has had a big feed and is zonked out in her little bouncinet and I have a moment spare to type this.
I will of course be posting photos of our darling girl and probably lots and lots of updates. Doug is a lot more private than me and a lot of this won’t be public posts. Hell, there are things I wrote on the "maybe baby" filter that *I* wouldn’t have wanted as public posts. We won’t be adding just anyone. If you’re already on the "maybe baby" filter, you’ll probably be added automatically. If you want off, please let me know (if you haven’t been seeing weekly pregnancy updates, you’re not on it, no need to tell me you don’t want to be). If you’re not on it and you want on, talk to me privately. (If you don’t have an LJ, you’ll need one to get onto the filter I’m planning.)
And now *drumroll*, first pics, from Mum’s camera.
She’s so gorgeous. Mum says she looks a lot like early photos of me in this shot.
A really delightful closeup…
I love this little purple outfit that Mum knitted in bamboo. You can’t see it here, but there are booties to match.
This outfit — matching feeding top and baby suit — was given to me by my sister Selena. The feeding top is too big for me, sadly, as the outfit is really (possibly sickeningly) cute and makes me think of Norton Juster’s Phantom Tollbooth for some reason.