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maxcelcat ([personal profile] maxcelcat) wrote2006-09-04 12:02 pm

New Person

Yesterday, [livejournal.com profile] evildoom_bunny and I met a New Person.

Not in the sense that we met someone we'd never met before, but in the sense that this person didn't exist until Saturday morning.

And when I say met, I mean patted the head of. Gently. No actual talking involved, or hand shaking.

Which is a round-about way of saying we went and looked at new born baby :-)

A couple of our acquaintance squeezed out a baby very early Saturday morning - well, when I say couple I mean husband and wife, and mostly it was the Wife doing the squeezing!

We visited them briefly at the maternity ward of the Mercy Hospital for Chicks, which is a maze of a place. Very modern - even had a room especially for preparing bunches of flowers. Brian Chee Mun Ho, the New Person, was doing some serious breast feeding - some babies have a hard time getting the hang of it, not this one! It's amazing how tiny they look, less than the length of my forearm.

He was having a sort of half-hearted cry when we left. He had nothing to really cry about - warm, well fed, kinda squished looking. I said to [livejournal.com profile] evildoom_bunny "It's almost like he's simply complaining about being out rather than in." It must feel like a very weird transition - being warm and all wet, then having to use your lungs and mouth and wear clothes. I'd be a bit grizzly as well. [livejournal.com profile] evildoom_bunny would also know - she was nearly a month late.

The last new born I saw was my cousin Katya's baby Nina, about three years ago. She was the second largest baby the Royal Women's had ever seen - nearly 12 pounds (five kilos?) and nearly 60 centimetres long. So Bwian looked small in comparison, being only average sized.

Me? Clucky? Not at all :-)

(Weird. While writing this I just got an email saying that Melinda in Finance - in a division of my company which is interstate, so I've never heard of her - just had a baby. It's an epidemic!)

[identity profile] divamelisande.livejournal.com 2006-09-04 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
That's funny, cos I always used to call babies New People. :-)

[identity profile] smegforbrains83.livejournal.com 2006-09-04 10:14 am (UTC)(link)
no

not clucky at all

cluck
cluck

[identity profile] evildoom-bunny.livejournal.com 2006-09-04 11:22 am (UTC)(link)
b-GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAK!!!