Beautiful, healthy, baby Ella has finally arrived, reluctantly, and with some last minute dramas, at 2.04pm Monday 21 May 2007. She is an absolute honey pot baby with soft plump little pillows for arms and chunky, milky soft little legs and long fingers and toes. She is a very plump 11lbs 5oz (5.3kgs) with chubby little cheeks and thick black hair that has a suspicion of a curl in it. We think she is the image of Jody with her mother's gorgeous mouth and cute little nose. She has a few bruises from her difficult (natural) birth but they will quickly clear. I was lucky enough to have a very long cuddle with her when she was only about 3 hours old. She is an incredibly soft little bundle and quite capable of complaining loudly when she needs to.
Being so chubby she was very slow and reluctant to come out, which created some dramas for everybody, especially in the final half hour. Joshie said it was like an ER episode with about 15 people in attendance. He said Jody stayed calm and brave but I know it was very stressful for him to go through too. They are both full of praise for the professionalism of all the medical staff and the caring treatment they are receiving. Josh, Jody and Ella are "public" patients yet have had the best possible care and Jody is in a room by herself tonight. We feel blessed to live in such a civilised, well resourced society at times like this.
Jody's labour started in earnest at around 1.30 this morning so neither Josh nor Jody have had much sleep in the last 24 hours. We are hoping they can start recovering now. We are all very relieved that the waiting is over and baby Ella is safely here. It is raining heavily again in Canberra tonight. Can we be lucky enough to have the drought brought to an end too?
I raced up to the hospital soon after 2.00pm this afternoon because I was getting so agitated and forgot the camera (duh). I will get some shots tomorrow and post them on the blog so you can all see our honey pot of a baby girl.
Being so chubby she was very slow and reluctant to come out, which created some dramas for everybody, especially in the final half hour. Joshie said it was like an ER episode with about 15 people in attendance. He said Jody stayed calm and brave but I know it was very stressful for him to go through too. They are both full of praise for the professionalism of all the medical staff and the caring treatment they are receiving. Josh, Jody and Ella are "public" patients yet have had the best possible care and Jody is in a room by herself tonight. We feel blessed to live in such a civilised, well resourced society at times like this.
Jody's labour started in earnest at around 1.30 this morning so neither Josh nor Jody have had much sleep in the last 24 hours. We are hoping they can start recovering now. We are all very relieved that the waiting is over and baby Ella is safely here. It is raining heavily again in Canberra tonight. Can we be lucky enough to have the drought brought to an end too?
I raced up to the hospital soon after 2.00pm this afternoon because I was getting so agitated and forgot the camera (duh). I will get some shots tomorrow and post them on the blog so you can all see our honey pot of a baby girl.
1 comment:
Such fantastic news Judy! Jeremy sent a photo through on my phone last night, so I've managed to already catch a glimpse of her. Claire send she resembles you in some way?
Congratulations to everyone, especially the tired parents. Have fun being a doting Granny, I'm have no doubt that both you and Rob will take the reigns with relish.
Tell Grandpa to post (his no doubt already completed) Ella poem up on the blog.
lots of love,
d.
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