Baby!

[attackfish]

I have a niece!  She was born late in the evening two nights ago on the 6th of August, to my brother and his wife.  She topped out at eight whole pounds and nineteen inches long!  She made her poor mother endure almost twenty-four hours of labor, and when she came out, her face was all swollen.  Her huge cheeks made her look like a little bitty old lady queen Victoria.  The swelling is going down now, and we're finally getting to see what she looks like.

And of course, I'm stuck at my doctor's in California, so I don't get to meet her until Sunday. Until then, I am relying on the pictures my sister-in-law has been sending us.  My favorite one is of her mama holding her, and she's yawning.  I love her little yawn.

Anyway, if you can't tell, I'm smitten.

Comments

[grandiose666.livejournal.com]

Mazel Tov! Nieces are nice indeed, babies generally are very cool when one can hand them back during crankytimes.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

And she's particularly short on crankytimes as it is since her mother is taking opiate based pain meds following a particularly long hard labor, so my niece is a little dopey. (This was done with the advice and observation of their doctor who knew she was breastfeeding, and it stopped this morning. Let's see how calm she is now!)