What was the first thing you said to your baby at birth?

I saw my daughter for about 5 seconds before they rushed her to the NICU. I saw her a couple of hours later and she was hooked up to several montiors. My husband went with me and I said nothing. I couldn't even really touch her. The next morning I walked down to the NICU to see her by myself. All I could tell her was that I was sorry and I would do whatever I could to make it up to her but that I knew she was going to be ok. I sat there with her for a bit and held her tiny little hand gently. She was 29 weeks to the day. I felt empty after having her like a piece of me was missing and it was so scary that I didn't know what to do the first time I saw her I was still in shock. But the next morning things were clear and she was my little girl and I would never give up on her and I knew I would alway be there for her. She is 3 now and just a perfect as can be. She is a little me which is good and bad. Luckly she is stuborn and a fighter just like me which really helped in the hospital. Now I tell her every night and several times a day that I love her very much. She is my little angel.

Hi. I will never forget the minute I laid eyes on my baby. I did not know whether it was a he or a she. The first thing I saw in my baby when the nurse carried her over to me were her rosy cheeks. When she was lowered to me and I got a full view of her, believe me or not, I thought she looked like a Japanese sumo wrestler!:-D (No offense to them) She was huge and weighed 4 kilos. Her eyes were shut and just small slits on her face. When she opened them a little later, they were like black grapes inside. She was so soft and pink. And she was the talk of the hospital at that point of time. They called her 'big baby'. I had a difficult delivery, but I would gladly go through all of that again for my daughter.

When I was pregnant with my oldest son I used to listen to relaxing music. I used to do relaxation techniques imagining him or her in a beautiful garden with myself. I told my baby that I was going to push him or her out as quickly as possible. It took just twenty minutes and then I was greeted with the sight of my son. I said "welcome to the world little boy" but he wasn't so little. His size amazed the midwives. He was 9lb and 4ozs and had the head size of a 6 week old baby. When my second son was born I said "I am so pleased you are alive". You see he is disabled and his back needed an operation the same day he was born. So he got rushed off to hospital in an ambulance. He had another operation two weeks later. It was magical when he was allowed home. I said to him "Poorly one I am going to keep you safe". I had to place him on his left side to sleep for medical reasons. When my third baby was born I asked is it a girl or a boy. My midwife said look for yourself. I found out she was a baby girl. I said to her "You are so pretty and I am going to treasure you". Then I felt more and more unwell and weak as I lost more and more blood. I was lucky to survive that ordeal of losing over two and a half liters of blood. Now my oldest is 15, my disabled son is 3 and my baby daughter is 1.

When my son was born, I looked at him, crying my eyes out and told him how beautiful he was and how I waited so long to see him and that I loved him very much. I am so in love with my son. He's 14 months old and the light of my life! I would sacrifice anything for him just to see him smile. Having a child can make you feel like you're going to just burst with joy! I can't explain how he made me feel, or still makes me feel to this day. I tell him every day, several times a day, that mommy loves him very much and that he is my everything.

To breath was what I told my son when he was first born he was purple and a premie with severe jaundice so he was only 5lbs when they finally let us take him home. I remember he hardly fit into the carseat.

I had an emergency CS delivery due to preeclampsia, but I'm still conscious during the procedure, I know whats happening to me that time and heard the voices of the people around me but felt nothing. Until I heard a baby's cry, oh it's my baby boy he cries very loud. The nurse brought him to me and then I said "I love you baby" and then I kissed him. After that I already loss my consciousness. Thank God we're both safe, he is my greatest gift. I love my baby so much.