Welcome Anouk

YAY!!!! Anouk was born 2 days ago, on April 6, at 12:34 in the afternoon, and mom and baby are doing great :-) It is the most awesome experience to see the actual delivery, even though it involves a lot of hard work and pain. But once she came out, hormones make you forget everything and you become the happiest person on the planet.


Anouk is obviously the cutest and most amazing baby on this planet, and everybody who said this earlier about their kid was clearly wrong..... :-) She measures 20 inches (50 cm) and weighs 7 lbs 3 oz (3270 grams), and she was born on her due date (we like punctuality).


After the successful delivery, we stayed in the hospital for another 2 days to make sure that everybody is healthy, and teach us basic baby-survival skills like swaddling, diaper-changing, breast-feeding etc. The staff was very thoughtful and supportive, and the food was good. I slept on a cot in the same room so I could spend the night with my two women :-) On the second night, they served a celebratory dinner with fillet mignon and tiramisu, which was really great. Unfortunately, none of the nurses wanted to come home with us, so now we are managing it on our own.....


We took her home in the car seat (mandatory), and now she is getting her portion of protein as I am writing this. We are obviously very excited, and we'll post a lot more pictures in the next few weeks.


Oh yeah, and some people make you think that kids only smile (you never see other pictures); this is not completely true: