the business end
Thursday, May 31, 2007
A couple of people have asked who took the pictures of Maggie's birth. Not Jack, who was busy on hand-holding and brow-mopping duty, but Joeleen, the very sweet first-year midwifery student to whom we entrusted our camera in exchange for allowing her to stay and watch. This was only the second c-section she'd observed, and she clearly takes a keen interest in her profession, to judge from the graphic and comprehensive nature of the photos she produced: all I can say is, if you think the edited highlights posted on flickr are gory enough, you should see the ones we left off. However I'm grateful to Joeleen: thanks to her I have a detailed and actually quite moving record of my second daughter's emergence into the world. One that I am never, ever, going to show to anyone else.
Here's a concept: a baby who, after her 3 AM feed, settles instantly and contentedly back to sleep in her bassinet rather having to be rocked, sung to and paced up and down with for the next one and a half fucking hours.
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