Just Had A Baby, Back Next Week
Lily and Grace and I just had a baby yesterday! His name is Rocco and he is terrific. By far the smallest guy I’ve ever met. If you’ve got any baby advice you think we could use, please do feel very free to share it, since this is a first for all three of us.
They give your baby a free little hat when you have a baby in the hospital, you know. But the hat doesn’t like to stay on.
He’s a wonderful little yellow lump of butter. I’m very glad to get to know him, almost more glad than I can say. It is very hard to lose family, and it is very beautiful to gain family. One doesn’t cancel out the other, but it is nevertheless so good to receive. I hope you are all made as happy as you can possibly bear this week, and I’ll be back to talk more about Mansfield Park soon.
The best advice I was given: it’s all temporary. All of it. When the hard parts feel impossible, know they will pass. When the good parts feel joyful, cherish them, because they’ll pass too.
Second best: if any one of you is feeling completely inconsolably overwhelmed, drink a glass of water and/or go outside.
Also, while I have tried my hardest to read everything ever written about parenting in the hopes it will magically make it easier, I’m sorry to report that nobody has ever written a book about YOUR baby so you just have to muddle it all out yourselves.
Welcome to the world, lovely Rocco. ♥️
In about a month, when he’s more solid and awake but still floppy, it will be the best time for one person to hold the camera and the other to dance the baby like a muppet to an old timey song