Introducing Dorothy McKenna

Mother and daughter are doing well.

Marc, Milo and I were able to be there for the birth.  She was scheduled to be induced on 10/9 at 6:00 am.  Real labor didn’t begin until after midnight on 10/10.  Elspeth spent about 2 hours pushing (she was a champ; figured out early that the better she did on pushing, the faster she’d be done!) and Dorothy was born at 4:10 am on 10/10.  Els had a hard time delivering the placenta; bled quite a bit losing more than a liter.  Some fluids, and bit of light-headedness later, she was doing fine.  We had to leave, head home, around 9 am.  Marc, Milo and I gave Dorothy her first feeding (30 ml of formula since Elspeth wasn’t yet feeling well enough to hold Dorothy).

Dorothy will have a scan today (sinus issue, so they’re checking her kidney’s and hearing since sinuses and kidneys develop at the same time).  Her little toes are adorable (each foot has a toe that bends a bit and ends up under the next toe, as if she were crossing her toes while promising to tell the truth).

Beautiful black hair, darker blue eyes.  I wonder if she’ll keep them?