Do you remember?

After having three births last week among friends I started to reflect back on that special weekend. It's funny and strange all in a good way to say that I miss it. We were one of those few couples that choose to not find out the sex of the baby and Greg honestly wasn't too happy with the initial decision to keep everything a surprise. However, I think I now made him a believer of "surprises." Now don't get me wrong many of my friends find out and I'm totally supportive of their decision...because it is THEIR decision. I think it's crazy that sometimes people will look at you cross eyed if you choose to wait on finding out the sex. Some people say it makes planning and gift giving easier. Well all I have to say is that we ended up with almost twice as many things because after finding out we had a girl everyone wanted to buy something pink and sparkly.

HOWEVER...do you remember those first couple days with your sweet baby? I remember that it all began when my husband was on a busy intern rotation for ortho. He was suppose to be on call the night that Brooke was born however there was absolutely NO way that he was going to leave his two girls. Those first couple days with just the THREE of us were absolutely perfect. We didn't have any family there (other than my sister that was living with us at the time). Therefore, we got to initial develop a bond as a family before people started coming in to help. I remember the morning after having Brooke, Greg was still in utter disbelief that this little person was in my belly 24 hours earlier and couldn't imagine life without her now.

I always make a point to tell friends that have just had kids to remember to just spend time with your hubby and new baby. It's so hard to get caught up in all the wonderful help that you get tossed your way but I think for my husband it really helped make him feel a part of the process. After all as a mommy you'll always get special time feeding the babe. OK, enough nostalgia for everyone. I'll stop talking about babies and giving birth and I'll start talking about sweet Brooke.