Our Baby Girl made an appearance on January 24th, 20:39hrs Houston time. Despite being 'officially' 2.5 weeks early she is a healthy 3170 grammes and 48 cm (7 lbs, 19 Inch). Her name is Kaat Wikke and she appears to be in top shape.
We are very happy and very proud and the delivery was pretty smooth and she did not give me too hard a time.
What a miracle!
We thinks she very obvious Rick's sibling
although after her 1st bath this morning we also started to see some clear differences.....the hair fortunately for her!
Thanks the delivery I feel pretty good as you can tell
Rick got to meet his sister this afternoon. He ran into the room, called out 'Baby!' and proceeded to give her a big welcome kiss on the cheek. He can say Kaat or Kaatje very well already.
No major fit of jealousy (yet), just some genuine interest (not too long of course -;)
And wanting to share his sandwich with Kaat, getting a little annoyed when dad insisted she did not need any bread.
Welcome Kaat - we are all so happy you are here.
For those of you into the details, she is already feeding very well (within the hour she did a first 20 min session), we likely get to go home Wednesday am or noon, yes we are fine with people calling her Kate and Rick was in the care of our Dutch friends Joost & Marlouke the night Kaat was born (and in day care during the day). I had a natural delivery and Eelco did a stellar job supporting me throughout. I have some discomfort but can get by on normal ibuprofin so nothing to complain about.
