SEC17 WK:#6: My Family, My Pride!

So today i want to tell you about my little #family

My family consists of:

• my grandma
• my father
• my girlfriend
• and our little son

And of course the family of my girlfriend, which consists principally of:

• her father
• her mother
• and her brother

Of course there are other (living) familymembers too, like aunts, uncles, cousines, etc. but i don't have really any contact with them since many of them missbehaved in the past. My girlfriend on the other hand has a really good bonding with her aunt, uncle and cousins - it's like two different worlds.

But today we won't talk about missbehaeving, but about pride. And i'm really proud of the newest member of my family:

Our little son!

I won't show you any images from him, sorry for that, but i think we all know that the www could be a wild west with really weird people unfortunately. But he is sooo #cute! And he develops really fast.

But first things first

His birth was a really cool experience for me. But before the birth there was the planning. We decided in about four days that we want a child, now! Even if we are more on the younger side (middle 20). We tried it in middle January last year and it worked on first try! On the 14th of February, Valentinesday, we got the notice that she is pregnant. I was so so happy when she told me!

So the nine or moreover ten months (in modern way of calculating) waitingperiod were really hard for me. On every ultrasound i was really nervous if this little creature inside my girlfriend is still alive, since it could always be that it gets complicated somehow.
The most wonderfull sound i ever could hear was it's #heartbeat on the very first ultrasound.

So we went in June to a birth preparation course. It was really cool, they prepared it really nice! And so the time passed and we came closer to the calculated day of birth: the 25th of October 2023

But the little boy wasn't ready to came. So we went every two days to the hospital for a little check. It was very important to my girlfriend to get the birth as natural as possible - so no "midwife-cocktail" or similar. As the days passed and our child won't come out we came closer and closer to the 12 days until they give her a midwife-cocktail.

But then it happened!

I was at work and on the 2nd of November at around 3 pm she wrote me that she thinks it is time. But i should stay calm and work until the end, since they told us in the birth preparation course that we got plenty of time. At least at a "normal" first birth...

So i worked till end, went home and talked to my girlfriend. Everyone took a shower, we prepared the last things for her clinic bag and slowly i drove her to the hospital with a little stop at the gasoline disturber. On the way she got labour pains every now and then.

While she took her turn for showering i used my time to create a meme to tell everyone that it's time. I used the seastar from the film "find Nemo" - today's the daaaay! and wrote something like: "the baby in the womb is like:"

I learned fast!

While she got labour pains when i drove her to the hospital and said something stupid, she sweared at me. So i kept calm and when a labour pain came i didn't said anything, so she didn't get mad at me - and it worked really well! #tippForFutureDads

So we arrived to the hospital at around 6:50 pm. At around 7:10 pm we got our birth room and my girlfriend was laying on the bed with some instruments attached to her to measure the heartbeat of her and the little one inside her body.

The midwife got outside the room since she had to do something. Every now and then when the labour pains were much we called the midwife and she came for a moment, did something and went outside again.

My girlfriends biggest birth wish was

to give a waterbirth. But the midwife didn't wanted to get her into that pool-thing since the insteuments didn't measure very well and inside that tube it measures even worse normaly. But later we could try it, later we could try it... So the time passed and we didn't tried the bathtube. After i asked the midwife finally how it looks then with that bathtube. So finally she filled it with water. And it was a surprise for her that the instruments measured the best in there.

But that wasn't the biggest surprise!

The biggest surprise was when my girlfriend told her that she thinks now she is ready for the contractions. We were about 4 hours inside the hospital. She didn't beleaved my girlfriend and made a control - and was very surprised when the cervix was open. So now she stayed at our side (finally).

And then it was time...

On 11/02/2023 at 11:11 pm she gave birth to our wonderfull son! He came to world still in the "lucky bonnet" and after that broke up in the water he came to the waters surface like superman: with one arm up in front.

And he really is a superman!

He develops and learns so fast, he is now 6 month old and just tries to stand and go. He is very strong, he can pull his up without our help.

This is such a beautiful journey with him and i can't tell whats the proudest thing about all this is since whenever he does something new, he learned something or developed something, sometimes even only if he laughs at me, i'm so proud of him for what he does, proud of my girlfriend to gave birth to such a beautiful little guy and proud of myself too!

I would be curious to hear about @schlensbens1 family prouds and @wakeupkitty.pal