Our rainbow

Well here we are, a week after our rainbow was born. At 05.11 on the 16th of January 2012, 6 days early like her big brother Ruby Ruth Wu was born. Yup Roo was a girl, mama really does know best! After a nice easy labour and deliver, yet again with no pain relief or gas and air we are thrilled she is here. We delayed cord clamping to ensure she got all the oxygen rich blood back into her body. It took 20 minutes and a further 60 to deliver the placenta (without the job). I'd wanted it to be as natural as possible, regardless of what had happened with Angus this was a different labour, a different baby. I'd already proved I could do it all in the way closest to nature that suited us. A helathy 7lb 6oz at birth, a shocker compared to the 5lb 14oz of Angus.

When she first came out my goodness she looked like Angus. But there was something different, she was chunkier, screaming and demanding to be fed! She just looked like she was here to stay and for that I'm thankful. It was eerily similar yet so different. Two different children who have moments when they look the same, but they couldn't look more different.

Ruby is breastfeeding beautifully, a healthy weight gain since the initial loss of only 6%, today a week later she's only got 1oz to go before being back at birth weight, weight day tomorrow! And yes I'm exhausted feeding on demand, but my god is it worth it to see those eyes open and look at you, knowing you've given her the best start, knowing she is thriving purely because of you. We are so in love with her, and fear though it still remains is by far out weighed by joy and love. The past 11 months since losing Angus have been so awful and yes we always had hope but now we can hold that hope in our arms, bath her, fed her and physically be with her. She is amazing, she is everything.

Andy is just fantastic with her, our family is complete once more. Our little rainbow is here and although the storm is still above us we have a beautiful bright rainbow.