For month I thirstily anticipated encounter the little one , and unfeigned to her byname , Sprout — our darling Gemma Lumen — arrived on March 20 , the first Clarence Day of spring , after almost 16 hour of labor . It was long and arduous , but the gush of easement I felt with that last pushing station a surge of endorphins through my consistence that I ’ll never forget .
Despite the drawn - out wait , Gemma ’s entrance into the world was one of calmness and curiosity . She was wide - eyed and alert like a shot after birth , and it took a few days for it to really sink in that this lilliputian creature was in reality mine , that I mature those little toe and that delicate nose inside my physical structure from what was once a mass of cubicle .
Pregnancy and birth is a wild and howling miracle , and one that I would put as one of life ’s pinnacle experiences . For the female soundbox to serve as a vas for such a monumental achievement is nothing shortsighted of head - boggling .
Even more mind - boggling , as I think back to the twenty-four hours leading to her birth , was the fact that just a mere 10 hours before I went into labor , I was mellow on a cliff on a coastal rise with Will . I get slushy now that I experience it was her last escapade in utero , and a fitting one for our Pisces baby .
Though I ’ve only known Gemma for a short two weeks , I already see slivers of myself and of Will in her disposition . She ’s such an easy and happy babe , and has made this initial period at menage surprisingly peaceful .
She eat well and sleeps well , and loves tummy clip and skin - on - hide time . Though the round - the - clock nursing is voiceless , and my hormones are take me for quite an emotional and physical drive the right way now , her little coos and spontaneous smiles simply make me melt .
I teeter-totter between moments of acute bliss and then of utter weariness . parentage has already prove itself to be a unhinged , can’t - believe - we’re - in - charge - of - this - fresh - life - and - get - to - keep - her matter . But we ’re still in the new-sprung honeymoon phase , and I just adore her at this eld .
Will has been a phenomenal help around the home and is to the full in charge of diaper duty , as well as pug tariff , chicken duty , garden duty , kitchen responsibility … He has really transcend my expectation as a husband and founding father , and there ’s nothing sweeter than see your partner apply his child in his arm .
How something so perfect and vulnerable can have such a unplumbed and beautiful impact on our relationship is a fact I ’m still trying to wrap my mind around .
We ’re slowly but sure as shooting settle into a new turn at nursing home , and I ’m try out to remind myself to take it tardily and bask all these ephemeral moments .
Welcome home , sweet girl , I ’m so beaming you ’re ours .
