June 2, 2013

• Friday 31st May

   

   

   

  So last night I worked on the internet making a special photo book for Mahalia that had to be done before the 31st.
  I was still awake when Anson called me at 2am.

  He was so excited.
  Their wee babe had finally arrived.
  It has been a long week, culminating in an emergency c-section at 1:30am.
  When he called, Marah was still in recovery and hadn't come out of anesthetic yet.
  He had been with her through the op and was there to see his daughter arrive into his world.
  She was whisked away quickly by the pediatrician and connected up to a drip etc, but he did get to see her and hold her before calling me.

  Anson wanted to call all the family himself so I snuggled down into my pillows to sleep.
  Then at 2:30am Phoebe text me.
  She was so excited she couldn't sleep.
  Finally after half an hour of texting I suggested she turn off her brain and try and get back to sleep again.
  Then I was woken again at 4:45am by Sunni, her phone had been off and she had missed Anson's call and was wanting to hear the news.
  Then at 7am I was thankfully woken by another text.
  If it hadn't woken me I would've slept on and been late into town!

  So at 8am I headed into the city with Ross.
  Left him at a friends and I went straight into the hospital.
  This was my first meeting with my wee granddaughter.
  She was all snuggled up & sleeping soundly with her mummy.
  What a delicious squidgy wee cutie.

  

   

  Unfortunately the medical profession do not respect sleeping ladies and the pediatrician came to give her a Warrant of Fitness!
  She passed with flying colours and he said that the glucose drip could be weaned from her over the afternoon and she could have all the tubes removed later in the arvo.
  She wasn't terribly impressed at being woken and poked & prodded!!

  

  

   

  Hullo world
  My name is Eden Kayleah.

  

  Eden is Hebrew and means 'delight'
  Kayleah is Gaelic and means 'slender'

  

  I weighed in at 3130gm - or in the old measurements cuz my Nonna needed to know - 6lbs 14ozs.
  But I am so well covered that no-on will believe I am actually that small!

  

   

  Tthe nurse & Anson wheeled Marah's bed back to her room so she could freshen up and have breakfast and then rest.
  She was very tired.
  I had to leave soon after 9:30am as I had to meet Ross at the lawyers office.
  I grabbed a frappaccino on the way to sustain me through the stress of the meeting
  We had a very interesting discussion of which I cannot go into detail here.
  Needless to say there is a lot of stuff being leveled at us which unfortunately is having to be sorted out via the legal eagles.

   

  I drove Ross back to Richmond.
  While he sorted some stuff on my computer I went off to post mail.
  When I dropped Ross home Andrea was back so I just had to do the grandmother thing and show her the baby photos
  Then I headed back to Nelson.
  My vehicle was full of stuff for recycling.
  Called in to see Winningtons and Margaret offered to come help me unload so we dropped it all off at the Hospice shop.

  The day was flying and I knew the maternity ward closed between 1-3pm so the Mum's can rest so I hooned back up there at 2:30pm.

  Found Marah back in the special care area having lunch while Anson was cuddling the sleeping babe.

  

  I gave Marah the cute cuddly pink teddy and balloon to decorate her bed.

  

  Anson is really enraptured with his wee daughter

  

  

  

  Isn't she just the sweetest wee poppet?

  

   

  I left them to rest and headed into town to do some last minute things.
  Had a quick snack with Nathan at Hangar 58.
  He was at work but was on break when I arrived.

  I called in to see Seb's house on the way out of town.
  I drove straight to Blenheim.
  Arrived at Christine's soon after 6pm.
  Unpacked and changed and headed in with her to the Marlborough Convention Centre to the Meet & Greet evening which was the beginning of the 50th Jubilee Celebrations for the Marlborough Girls College.

  We had a wonderful night.
  Met up with a few girls from our 1970 intake year whom I hadn't seen since we left college in 1973/4.
  I got tired of standing around talking so went and joined Jeanie and Liz for a sit down catch up chat.

  

   

  Christine and I were quite socialised out by about 9:45pm so we took our leave.
  Drove the streets of Blenheim looking for somewhere to have some food and a drink.
  Not a lot happening in Blenheim on a Friday night

  Ended up at 'Fairweathers', had some wedges and hot chocolates.
  A couple of other old girls were also hanging out there with some friends so came over for a chat.
  It was midnight before I hopped into bed.
  A long long day.
  But a very happy one - I am focusing on the joys of having a wee granddaughter rather than the lawyers visit

   

   

   

   

   

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