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KSena ([personal profile] kseenaa) wrote2012-08-17 10:28 pm
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She is here! She is finally here and home!

I've been trying to write this since Thursday... Anyway. :-) Here goes.

Home... Finally home. Me and Alexandra got to go home on Wednesday. :-) Finally!

If you didn't understand it from my internet-silence, then I'll tell you.

Nerd Jr has finally been born.

Yes. Thursday night (or morning?) 9th of August at 00:35am I gave birth to a girl. A little girl that me and [livejournal.com profile] peting73 decided to name Alexandra.

It was one rushed delivery to. Even the midwifes and nurses there thought so and nicknamed Alexandra the racing-baby. :-)

Gonna spare you to many details, but... water broke at 1pm, first feeling of labor pains... 3pm. Labor pains coming close and steady, 7pm. At the hospitals maternity ward, 7:30pm. Fully opened (yes, there), 10pm. Alexandra out and born, 00:35am.

Apparently, as deliveries goes, that was quick! So once she decided she wanted to join us, she did so quickly our girl. :-)

Unfortunately she had an streptococcal infection when born. At first the nurses and Docs didn't know what it was, so they checked both her heart and her lungs, since she get didn't her oxygen out through her body properly. And she had to be taken to a intensive care unit for babies (where usually premature babies end up). Hence she couldn't stay with me, which was quite shocking and sad and depressing. Gladly though, there was nothing wrong with lungs or heart. Just the infection, so she got antibiotics for almost a week (we got a room at the hospital me and Alexandra so we could stay together), and then she was fine... and we could, finally, go home. :-)

Now we've been home since Wednesday. It's been a change, let me tell you. Our whole lives have been turned upside down. And in the center of it all, our girl... our Nerd Jr or Mini-viking. Our Alexandra.

It'll take time to get used to it all, but we are working on it. Together, us three. Well, five. There is the cats to that has been quite skeptical about this little tiny thing that makes so much noise that we brought home. They are slowly getting used to her though, and to have to share their time with us with Alexandra.

So if you miss me, or wonder where the hell I've gone to? Well... There's your answer. :-) I do keep up pretty will with Twitter and Plurk, so feel free to watch me there if you want. I am sorry for missing your entries and all, but right now I just don't have time to keep up. :-P At least not until we're all used to each other and have gotten a good schedule for us all.

Oh, and if you wanna see photos of our little miracle, [livejournal.com profile] peting73 created a journal for her. For all of you, and also since all my relatives are living in other towns. :-) (Oh, and he has posted a GORGEOUS photo of her in his own LJ... where she is only two hours old...)

So here it is. Alexandras LJ/photo-album: [livejournal.com profile] mini_viking. Go check it out! :-)

And to [livejournal.com profile] zeph317toho and to [livejournal.com profile] rule_number_7.... THANK YOU FOR YOUR GIFTS! THANK YOU SO MUCH! Not many babies that has such gorgeous gifts being sent to them from the other side of the world... THANK YOU!

[identity profile] iamkaa.livejournal.com 2012-08-17 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Congrats (again)! Nice feeling to be home, isn't it? :)

[identity profile] kseenaa.livejournal.com 2012-08-18 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, it is. It really is... Now I just have to get used to having her here and taking care of her 24/7. Not quite there yet, but we are working on it. :-) [livejournal.com profile] petingh73 is going to stay home with us for quite long, so that helps A TON! :-D

[identity profile] iamkaa.livejournal.com 2012-08-18 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
well, you will be her mother for the rest of your life, in that perspecitve it really doesn't matter if you get a hold on it tonight or next year, it's still just a blink of an eye of it hole, isn't it?

And thankfully they are too young to remember what we put them through in the begining, you got about two, three years to get it working before she will be able to hold it against you as an adult LoL
*What they don't remember never happened, unless it isn't something that makes you look good, that's the golden rule of parenthood ;-)*
Edited 2012-08-18 15:57 (UTC)

[identity profile] kseenaa.livejournal.com 2012-08-18 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Ha ha ha! Yeah, that is true. :-) Hard to wrap my head around as it is now, but yes. I hope I'll only teach the good things from me, and not the bad. :-)

And it IS a good thing her memory ain't the best yet. ;-) I am sure we'll make mistakes along the way when she grows up, but all one can do... is ones best, right? And I'll make damn sure about that at least!