3 weeks old!

Well, three weeks on from the birth of Tayen and what can I say? Has it been a breeze? I don't know... Do I love every minute of it? Absolutely!
Sure, some things haven't run smoothly - there have been some baby blue days where all I could do is cry my eyes out, and some breastfeeding issues with Tayen spitting up my blood (very scary, what a little vampire!) but other than that, motherhood suits me!
Tayen has been smiling since just before she was two weeks old. They say babies can't smile until they're at least 5 weeks old, but Tayen's smiles are definately not wind! When she's looking right at you, reacting to the silly things we say and the stupid faces we make, she knows what's she's doing!
She has put on 600 grams since birth, has grown 2cm in length and her head circumference is 1cm bigger.
My mum was staying with me last week, which was really nice, but Tayen was spoilt as Oma rocked and sang her to sleep! This week I'm on my own, and I'm more than a little tired, but I just can't find the time to sleep during the day - I still have a business to run, and a book to write for the Museum, so with looking after Tayen on top of that, I don't have time to scratch myself! I'm sure I'll have a meltdown in the next month, but it will be worth it!
I'm looking forward to the 6 week stage, when everyone says all the initial teething problems of being a new mother magically sort themselves out - hopefully my nipples can last that long (seriously, the things you can talk about when your body is a supermarket is amazing!)

Here comes another Henderson!

7:00 am on the first of May found me becoming groggily aware of two goofy adults standing in my doorway. I peeled back the layers of sleep from my eyes and began to wonder why the roof was yellow. The thought subsided, and the goofy adults smiled.

"It's happening!"

Indeed; since 5:30 that morning, Dee had been having contractions.

"And what? You're trying to send me to school?" I asked incredulously.

No matter, I stayed home, and the day was full of slowness, card games, slowness, contractions, slowness, the agonising movie Emma, slowness and not much else.

But yay! At six we toddled finally off to the hospital, and after hours and hours of excrutiating labour, little, squashy Tayen Kaylee Henderson slid into the world. It was 2:13 am on the second of May. (Oh, and by 'little', I mean 9 pounds ... O_o). Tayen is an American-Indian name meaning 'new moon', and Kaylee is a character from the show Firefly. She's the most gorgeous little monkey person I've ever met, and I can't wait to spend lots and lots of time with her and get thrown up on a lot.

So, today we brought her home for the first time, and set up the baby monitors and such. I'm writing this from my room, and every time I hear her cry it's an "Oh la vache, this will only get worse ... nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo." But oh well, I'm sure the good will outweigh the loud, annoying noise :P

But I'm sure you will all want to hear the other points of view in this, so that's the way the cookie crumbles.

(And keep an eye out at your local video store for the second doco by the Henderson family - Here Comes another Henderson).