Babies and Bubbles

Generally I'm going to be writing about pretty affordable wines but since this is my first post we're going to start big -- and at the beginning!

Now my lil bug was due on January 14th and since it was my first I figured I'd be late.  So imagine my surprise when on Christmas Eve my contractions were about 8 minutes apart.  Since no one wants a Christmas birthday I pretty much laid around in agony till my doctor appointment on the 28th.  By 7pm that night we were all checked into the hospital ready for a baby.  Long story short, labor lasted till about 3pm the next day and after 3 hours of pushing our lil bug was still turned the wrong way so I had to have a C-section.  Our baby girl was born on December 29th at 8:10pm.  Just in time for this new mama to enjoy some New Years Champagne!

Or so I thought.  Still we spared no expense and broke out my favorite - Krug Champagne.  This deliciously well balanced bubbly is like drinking apple pie mixed with smokey almonds and is a true party in your mouth.  One that costs $200 a bottle.  Still, I had just been pregnant for nine months and just went through 25 hours of labor, I deserved it.  But I also hadn't slept for more than two hours at a time and did just have my stomach cut open so my crazy indulgence was about a half a glass (Don't worry, Daddy and the grandparents made up for my wussiness).

As we continued our New Years festivities in the hospital (Yes, it was a rager) I noticed my poor little girl was starting to look the same color as our beautiful golden Krug bottle and by 8am the next day she was sunning herself under the lights to get rid of the jaundice and I was a complete and total reck.  Hormones are really a cruel thing especially those postpartum ones.  So much for enjoying my first glass of the good stuff.

When I finally did feel those crisp bubbles hit my lips it wasn't on champagne's biggest day of the year.  It was a few weeks later on a Sunday and lil bug decided it was a good day to torture her mommy so she started crying.  And crying.  And crying.  By the afternoon I thought I was going to loose it.  Most parents might throw their baby in the car and drive around the block or spend hours in a rocking chair.  My hubby's solution was breaking out another bottle of Krug (and the breast pump).  Once we relaxed, lil bug relaxed.  And I finally got to sit quietly sipping my sweet bubbles with my sweet girl asleep on my lap.

And that was one of my first big lessons of motherhood.  Sometimes the best moments are the unexpected ones.  And any moment can easily be worth a two hundred dollar bottle of Champagne.