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Monday, June 28, 2010

Cartoonist Baby (aka Baby Z) is here!

Baby Z (aka Cartoonist Baby), the Early Days!

Cartoonist Baby sleeps through her family portrait

As you may have guessed from my long past due date, Cartoonist Baby is finally here... and she is AMAZING! Masheka and I are so in love with our little girl, and just in awe of her. We've been home with Baby Z (her first initial) for a few days now, and in between nursing sessions, naps and diapering we pretty much just hold her and talk to her and stare at her in happy shock. I mean, really--look at this face!

Baby Z (aka Cartoonist Baby), the Early Days!

Now, when she finally decided to arrive, she certainly took her sweet baby time. I was in labor for FIVE DAYS before she deigned to make her appearance--I kid you not. I remember being scared by one of the videos I saw in my childbirth class about a woman who was in labor 48 hours, but our instructor assured us that was really, really rare. Ha! By hour 60 I was wishing to have that woman's labor. Though the sleep deprivation was certainly good preparation...

Here we are in the hospital recovery room the day after she was born:

Baby Z (aka Cartoonist Baby), the Early Days!

By the way, Masheka is the sweetest and most devoted dad ever, in my totally unbiased opinion. He's pretty much doing everything except for feeding her, which is of course my full-time job these days!

Staring at her Daddy:

Baby Z (aka Cartoonist Baby), the Early Days!

Masheka and I dressing her for her trip home:

Baby Z (aka Cartoonist Baby), the Early Days!

All dressed!

Baby Z (aka Cartoonist Baby), the Early Days!

Most of the clothes I've sewn or knit for her are still way too big, but here she is in her pink hand-dyed Fool-Proof Baby Hat:

Baby Z (aka Cartoonist Baby), the Early Days!

And here's a middle-of-the-night diaper change photo of her in her Green Goblin diaper soaker, which is still a bit on the big side:

Baby Z (aka Cartoonist Baby), the Early Days!

And here she is checking out the Brooklyn view in one of the cloth diapers her Grandmommy Beryl made for her:

Baby Z (aka Cartoonist Baby), the Early Days!

Here's the full Flickr gallery.

And with that, I'm off to cuddle Baby Z and stare at her some more.

Baby Z (aka Cartoonist Baby), the Early Days!
posted by Mikhaela Reid at 8:14 AM

3 Comments:

Anonymous Unbeliever said...

Awwwwww. Precious cartoonist baby. :)

1:22 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oh my gosh, she's so cute, congratulations! And respect on your 5-day labor, especially if it didn't end up in a C-section! I had a regular-10-hour labor and that was enough! And now you got me thinking about what her first name might be. Zelda? Zoe? Zion? Enjoy your little treasure and sleep well if possible ;)

6:29 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

oh mah gawd. Is it weird to say I wanna eat her feet? I kinda want to eat her teeny baby feets.

11:28 PM  

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