Home at last!

The doc­tors let us go home today, which is awe­some, because it’s only Day 4 and they ori­gin­ally said they were keep­ing me until Day 7. Harper and I are so happy to be at home with Doug instead of in a hos­pital room with no Inter­net access! All updates of the last few days have been via our ded­ic­ated scribes… Thank you, scribes!

Doug, Jack and I just indulged ourselves in the spark­ling shiraz, smoked salmon, leg ham, camem­bert and cran­berry sauce we had planned for the post-birth meal and now Harper has had a big feed and is zonked out in her little boun­cinet and I have a moment spare to type this.

I will of course be post­ing photos of our darling girl and prob­ably lots and lots of updates. Doug is a lot more private than me and a lot of this won’t be public posts. Hell, there are things I wrote on the “maybe baby” filter that *I* would­n’t have wanted as public posts. We won’t be adding just anyone. If you’re already on the “maybe baby” filter, you’ll prob­ably be added auto­mat­ic­ally. If you want off, please let me know (if you haven’t been seeing weekly preg­nancy updates, you’re not on it, no need to tell me you don’t want to be). If you’re not on it and you want on, talk to me privately. (If you don’t have an LJ, you’ll need one to get onto the filter I’m planning.)

And now *drum­roll*, first pics, from Mum’s camera.

She’s so gor­geous. Mum says she looks a lot like early photos of me in this shot.

A really delight­ful closeup…

I love this little purple outfit that Mum knit­ted in bamboo. You can’t see it here, but there are booties to match.

This outfit – match­ing feed­ing top and baby suit – was given to me by my sister Selena. The feed­ing top is too big for me, sadly, as the outfit is really (pos­sibly sick­en­ingly) cute and makes me think of Norton Juster’s Phantom Toll­booth for some reason.