She's here!

No photos yet, but my niece was born about three hours ago and everything went well.

My brother's email has the stats (3.13 kg = 6 lbs 14 oz or, "6.9 lbs"* and 48.5 cm = 19.05 in), but he gave my mom more details when he called her (and then she talked to me on skype): my niece has lots of hair (I LOVE hairy babies!) and she was already breastfeeding well.

I hope my sister-in-law has a swift recovery. I'm a bit concerned that no one can stay with her overnight in the hospital :( , but I'm hoping she will be fine. I can't wait for the photos!!!


*I HATE expressing weight (particularly babies') in pounds and ounces, I think it's a pathetic way to measure, every Brazilian I know who lives here in the U.S. gets their newborns' babies' weight wrong because of the lbs oz thing!! The metric system is so much better in every way. Sigh...