Little baby 1st homecoming from the hospital was on Sunday 24th afternoon, two days after birth. Najla was very excited, not so much that baby is home, but more of mummy being home. She had been crappy the day before when she realised that mummy was not coming home yet and we had to almost continually keep her occupied lest she throws tantrums.
We were at the hospital in the afternoon on Saturday to visit baby and mummy and we brought Najla along.
She was beaming when she saw baby and mummy, insisted that we take some pictures of her with mummy and baby and seemed to be overawed with little baby, touching him in trepidation, as though expecting baby to wake up and scream at her!! She remained fascinated over her little brother and kept her eyes over the baby every now and then. At the same time she was throwing questions after questions to mummy. She also felt mummy's tummy and then look at the baby, perhaps wondering whether baby has truly come out from mummy's tummy, ha ha!! 
It was very difficult to get Najla to leave mummy and baby at the hospital when it was time for us to go home. She cried in the car and at the hypermarket where we stopped to buy groceries. The hospital is in another town, Heaverfordwest, which is bigger than and some 45 minutes drive out of Tenby. In this town we can get a good variety and choice of groceries and also 'halal' items. Because Najla continued to cry I had to sit with her at one corner of the hypermarket while Ram did the shopping alone. Najla finally fell asleep, obviously exhausted of crying, and I had to carry her and let her sleep on my shoulder. Luckily she is slim, small and light!!
Late Sunday afternoon was when baby arrived home with mummy and daddy and baby was sleeping peacefully in the 'carry-on' car seat on arrival. Not long after that he woke up and wanted to be fed. For the rest of the day and night baby was crying often, and was passing alot of 'wind' his tummy being obviously unsettled. We had to apply all sorts of techniques to make baby comfortable but we were almost up all night through. It was only early in the morning that baby was more settled and had a few hours of sleep. Phewww.... what a night..... I hope this will not be a sign of the many more sleepless nights to come....
Najla, about to hug Mummy on her arrival home
Just Like Tok Bi in that 'Nyonya' dress!!
MKI Ramblings Unlimited,
Tenby, Pembrokeshire,
Wales
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