Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Raphael Luke Soh

Presenting the new addition to our family.... Raphael Luke Soh is here! This is him on the weighing scale, testing his vocals, voicing his dislike of the hard and cold plastic compared to my warm chest minutes ago before he was whisked off to be measured.

We had some very nice midwives who actually followed my birth plan to a T. They cleaned and sucked out all the gooey with him laying my my chest and let me breastfeed him too. Basically, they left the 3 of us alone to savor the moment. Hmm...

Borned on 07 September 2008, Sunday
Weight: 3.77 Kg
Length: 51 cm
HC: 34 cm

All wrapped up. Nice and cosy.

Chloe and Raphael met for the first time that evening. She was not at all interested in Raphael initially cos 1) She just woke up from her nap on the way to the hospital, not warmed up yet. 2) There were our friends in the room, a little taken aback with all the commotion. A while later, after much coaxing from Grandma and Simon, she went to the bassinet and checked the baby she has been patting all these months (in my tummy).

She knocked on the plastic bassinet and said hi to Raphael like he's an exhibit. Then the action begins. She wanted to carry baby! She climbed up onto the bed, positioned herself nicely and asked Grandma to place baby on her lap. (Just looked at the excitement and anxiety on Grandma's and Simon's face, by the way I'm hyperventilating too.)

She shook his hands, high fived him, did an over all checked pointing to his eyes, nose, mouth etc and patted him. Chloe is definitely very into her new brother and there is not even a tinge of jealousy.

Still not very satisfied, she went on to touch his little toes and is about to unwrap him to feel his tiny fingers as well.

Our first family photo