Pure delight! I think that’s the best way to describe meeting our baby for the first time. It took us three floors and about 15 minutes of searching before our driver located Jeremiah’s hospital room. Praise God for our driver though because we would have never been able to negotiate that crazy hospital!!
When we walked in the room all we could see was a tuff of black hair sticking up out of the blanket. Jeremiah was soooo tiny! At first the nurses would not let us hold him…..I think they were checking out these crazy Gringos. So we rubbed his head and gently patted his back. One of my favorite memories is Jeremiah holding on to Stephen’s finger with his tiny hand!! Later in the afternoon the nurses said that we could hold him! What bliss!!!!!!!!!!!
Seeing Jeremiah and holding him for the first time was surreal. He was much smaller than we expected (even wrapped up in a few blankets we weighed next to nothing) but he was so much more beautiful than I had anticipated. Seeing all the tubes and needles in and out of him was very hard.
Both Stephen and I definitely loved this little guy and wanted so much to take him home and make him better. I remember thinking “I could sit and look at him all day”. Actually that’s exactly what we did!! There’s nothing much to do in a hospital room, but hold your baby and drink him in!!
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