These first moments are so magical, suddenly you feel like nothing exists outside that room and your whole world shifts a little to orbit around this new wonderful little person. Your eyes drink up every single movement, expression and tiny detail with insatiable hunger because it still doesn’t sink in that this is something you helped create and no matter how imperfect we think we are we create these angels. 

The pain and exhaustion that absorbed you so fully during labour disappears and the awe of new life bathes all your senses.  Something that a few moments ago didn’t exist becomes the epicentre of everything and this time I felt every moment of it. With Aydin all this took days to sink in and those first moments were a blur of disbelief and an overall numb experience of your emotions not quiet catching up with what was going on. This time around emotionally we did our best to be in the moment.