My niece Jasmine is finally here! :) I got a chance to see her tonight at the hospital, only 6 hours after she was born. Needless to say, our entire family is elated and glad that both baby and mommy are doing well. I received a phone call around 3:30pm today from my brother informing us that not only were they already at the hospital but the baby had already been born! =:o I guess it all works out for the better since none of us needed to sit around and wait while they go through those torturous pre-epidural linda blair in the exorcist type of pain. It wouldn't have been a pretty sight.

But Jasmine is indeed a pretty sight to me because I've never seen a newborn so hot and fresh out of the oven before. Like I said before, I hardly have any friends who have children and if they do, they are already walking and being a menace to society. Kidding! Oddly enough, I thought newborn babies were supposed to be more crinkly and wrinkled like a shar-pei when they come into the world. Or maybe it's just that all the babies they show on The Baby Story are that way. :x But my niece (weird typing this word) is such an interesting sight to behold because she is part of my flesh and part of my blood.

She weighed in at 7 pounds 8 ounces and is 19 inches long. And the girl has LARGE hands and feet!! She arrived at 1:10pm after only 10 hours of labor, pretty impressive for a first baby and she's doing just fine. She has dark dark brown almost black hair with some strands ending in blonde highlights. I guess she won't be needing those trips to the salon like I do. She's got em au natural calico hair. *wink* She also has grey blue eyes right now (so they tell me). They say some of her features look like me but I guess we'll have to wait and see about that when she gets older. But the one thing that's JUST like me is the whole head of hair she has when she was born. I had the exact same thing too. Let's just hope she doesn't get that nasty premature graying gene that all my siblings and I have passed onto her.

The poor gal has a lil conehead ala SNL's Conehead at the moment since the doctor had to suction her out due to some difficulty wedging her big hands and shoulders out. But it should return to normal later. She also developed a slight injury to her collarbone and a tad bit of bruising due to the whole trauma during her passage down towards the light at the end of the tunnel. ;P But she'll be fine.

The very happy yet tired parents. :)
[notice my generous use of the "blur" effect to soften the exaggeration of their tired panda eyes. my SIL is actually glowing but my bro looks kinda exhausted.]

Don't these lil bundles of joy starting growing at the rate of sea monkeys?

I'm out.