![\"Image](\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v340\/ksej2610\/skintoskin.jpg\")
<\/p>\nAt approximately quarter to one on the 23rd of November, the midwife in the delivery room helped get Andrea’s baby blogging career off to a great start by taking a picture of her as she met from the outside someone she’d got to know intimately from the inside over the previous nine months.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Later that day, she began putting faces to voices as I introduced her to the rest of the extended family.<\/p>\n
\nHer grandfather, who fell in love with her at first sight and eagerly volunteered to hold her every time I needed both hands free.
\n![\"Image](\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v340\/ksej2610\/granddad.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
Great-aunt Susan, who provided a full set of cloth nappies and gave me a lift when the time came to register the birth.
\n![\"Image](\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v340\/ksej2610\/susan.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
Auntie Alison, more nervous than the rest because she’s not had as many chances to hold babies. Uncle Sam, even more nervous because he’s an only child, looks on.
\n![\"Image](\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v340\/ksej2610\/auntieali.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
And finally, her great-grandmother.
\n![\"Image](\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v340\/ksej2610\/greatgran.jpg\")
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At approximately quarter to one on the 23rd of November, the midwife in the delivery room helped get Andrea’s baby blogging career off to a great start by taking a picture of her as she met from the outside someone … Continue reading