Time to be born

So the big day arrives!! Daddy had come back from work and I was taking a nap when I felt this liquid coming out… I knew that my water had broken and I called your dad to tell him. Even though he tried to hide his anxiety I knew that he was very nervous and did not know what to do with us. :)

We called the midwife and she said I would have to wait until the contractions were about 5 minutes apart, I think. It was January, 26^th, 7pm and we waited until the next day to go to the hospital. All night feeling those terrible contractions. Uncle Sady and aunt Carla came to give us support at the hospital and stayed there the whole time. Aunt Carla filmed everything. It was a moment of great pain but of greater happiness for me and for your daddy. We were both crying when you came to this world. It was one of the happiest days of my life!! (I won’t mention what happened in the next days, when I had to go to the hospital several times because I couldn’t pee for 10 days!!! :) you used to love to hear that story when you were 6 years old… mommy carrying that plastic bag around… remember that?)

So you were born on a terribly cold morning of January, 27^th, 2001 to brighten this world.

Grandpa Guilherme was the first one from the family to come visit you. He stayed with us for two months helping me with food!!! We loved it! :) He even brought meat from Brazil to make us some feijoada! Too bad the only thing you could have was breastmilk!! :)