The day we met!

21st of April 2012 ! A really lovely sunny day i remember thinking between contractions at the Southmead Hospital. The first thing that the midwife said when she saw you was " get ready to buy a comb, the lil guy has a lot of hair". And then right after you were born, you had me and your Abba in splits by trying to lick him. That was making him ticklish and he kept giggling like a lil kid.Never though lying down in a hospital bed could get this interesting.

That is when the midwife asked me for your cloths and cap.  My oops moment, when i realised that my seemingly impeccable packing wasn't quite as impeccable, and it never crossed my mind that babies need caps. The midwife very kindly found us the blue cap you are wearing in this picture.

And after everyone left, in the ward i held you for several minutes and kept looking at you, half believing that my lil miracle was here and half imagining all the things we are going to be doing together. For the next 12 hours we both slept quite well waking up for snacks every now and then. Plus not to forget the first poopy diaper. Your Abba always promised to me that he would be the one in-charge of all the yucky stuff. And yet here i was staring blankly at you while you were clearly uncomfortable in your dirty diaper. One of the nurses then came to my rescue showing me how to clean your bottom. While i hated the fact that my designated diaper disposal man wasn't around,  but it didn't take us both very long to get back to snooze.

The next day we were meant to go home after all your check ups. But strangely enough we couldn't figure out if you were peeing on the diaper or not. This is meant to indicate that your kidney is functioning well. So sadly at 8 in the evening, we stopped waiting for you to pee and your Abba went back home. And you being you decided too pee (decisively this time) just a few minutes later. But in no avail, we were spending our second day night at the hospital. So we actually went home on  Monday the 23rd April, which was a super duper rainy day. And mind you it took us a good one hour or so to get you to sit in  the car seat. Every time we put you there, you would start screaming and crying. Until finally.....

And at home....

And on our first night at home....Well lets just say it was very little sleeping for me and your Abba, it was a lot of crying for you. And then in the morning...

In those early days, you only wanted to be cuddled my Ammi....a lot. And how so very cuddly you were!!!! And there came our next challenge to get you to sleep without me sleeping with you. We tried the bed, the cot, the pram, and everyone's laps....but you little mister just wanted to be cuddled to sleep by Ammi.