Angel Seraphine has finally arrived

Our little angel, Seraphine Suzanne Shi-Yin D'Arcy has finally arrived! She was born on Monday, 21st May, through an emergency "C" section, just under 3 weeks early. She's a real beauty and yes, as her name describes it, an angel (so far)! So far, she's been calm and sleeps a lot (though, she's not as good an eater, we need to wake her up for feeds). She weighed in a hefty 3.9 kgs when she was born, but has lost some weight as she hasn't been eating a lot (though she latches on quite well.... she just keeps drifting off to sleep!) She has a huge shock of light black hair, like her sister, and in many ways, does like like Bibou when she was born. Bibou has been an absoulate delight and loves being with her little baby sister. She was a little bit worried, (my poor baby) when she arrived the first few days at the hospital as I was all 'wired' up (with tubes, drips, etc) and she kept asking why I had so many 'boo-boos'. She's really sweet. As the photos and videos show, she loves to hold, cuddle and kiss 'baby Seraphine'. But that's when the baby was in the hospital. We'll see what happens when we're home for a few more days.

The "C" section was no fun as usual, but I was determined to get right up as soon as possible and made a big effort to do so. Thus, now, just after 3 days, I'm back home. All the nurses etc (who were really nice at the hospital) were patting me on th eback and were quite encouraging. They were all saying that "C" normally go home only after either 5 or 7 days (and the last time, I was in the hospital for 10 days). Of course, it also helps that the hospital now has a new service where the midwives and peds come on the home to check on the mom and baby every day so that they can go home early (generally for 'normal' births). But since I got up, got 'wireless', been walking and taking care of Seraphine all on the second day and generally doing good, they let me home. Yippee!

Here are the first round of pictures and videos. Thanks to all the congrats we've received. We hope you'll be able to meet our little angel very soon.


















Here's another video of Bibou being really sweet with Seraphine