the day after
Thank you all for the well wishes and support. I love how loved Keaton is already.
Last night he nursed every 1.5-2hrs and somehow I was happy to wake up each time. Maybe that'll get old. When someone else holds him and he's away from me I go nuts not hearing his little vocalizations and murmurs and smelling his sweet smell. The labor was really hard for me and intense and it obliterated everything else in the moment. At one point (~6am, which later turned out to be transition) I went out for a walk with Ali on our street and I looked up at the stars and moon and felt like the world was ending. An hour later when he was born, the world was back. He's our world now, I guess.
There were many magical moments of pregnancy but there is nothing I have ever felt that can compare to looking at our little baby. I'm sure it'll get hard, this having a newborn thing, but right now I can't imagine a purer heaven.
Last night he nursed every 1.5-2hrs and somehow I was happy to wake up each time. Maybe that'll get old. When someone else holds him and he's away from me I go nuts not hearing his little vocalizations and murmurs and smelling his sweet smell. The labor was really hard for me and intense and it obliterated everything else in the moment. At one point (~6am, which later turned out to be transition) I went out for a walk with Ali on our street and I looked up at the stars and moon and felt like the world was ending. An hour later when he was born, the world was back. He's our world now, I guess.
There were many magical moments of pregnancy but there is nothing I have ever felt that can compare to looking at our little baby. I'm sure it'll get hard, this having a newborn thing, but right now I can't imagine a purer heaven.