Alice à la naissance | Mother and daughter united | World, here I come!
Alice est née sans problème à 5h37 ce matin. Elle pèse 9 livres et 3 onces et mesure 21 1/2 pouces, elle est donc une once plus lourde et un demi-pouce plus longue que sa "grande" soeur Lily ne l'était à sa naissance...
Rachel va bien. Ce deuxième accouchement s'est déroulé plus rapidement que le premier, et la bébé a fait irruption après à peine 2 poussées intenses... comme un bouchon de champagne. Les sages-femmes et aide-natales de la Maison de naissance ont été admirables une fois de plus!
Alice was born this morning at 5:37, after nine months and ten days of a wonderful pregnancy and twelve hours of equally wonderful contractions (speaking from my standpoint, of course). Rachel is well (see picture with the smile) and fast recovering and Alice is plump and daunting (see picture with the frown). She weighs 9 pounds and 3 ounces and has a healthy appetite for her mommy's milk.
Our experience with the midwives in the "Maison de naissance" (birthing house) has proved once more to be immeasurably satisfying. While Lily was born there during a snow storm two Christmases ago, little Alice chose to emerge during a rain storm. Thankfully, Rachel's own storm inside the room came to a quick end soon after the waters broke, and Alice appeared after only two major tsunami pushes.
All three of her sisters - Flor, Gabriela and, mercifully, princess Lily - are delighted to see Alice arrive into our family, which family I will be trying to keep happy by staying at home full-time for the coming month, and by generally dedicating myself to all these women for the rest of my life ! (haha)
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Thank you for posting these colourful pictures of your loved ones.
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