And so it begins!

She's here!! Baby Meha took her first breath at 11.10pm, Saturday, April 16th. The labor went amazingly smoothly (so says the dad). At about 9.30 at night, which was about 3 hours after arriving at the hospital, we hunkered it for what we thought would be a long labor. The lights were dimmed, as we were told to get some rest. (For the record, iPad won over the Kindle in this situation as the backlight came in very handy for me to read to Joanne.) Before we fully knew what was going on, we were told to start pushing and Meha entered the world about an hour later.
Here's Meha at age 30 minutes:

And here she is at 30 hours:

She had a huge face-scratching issue when she first came out (she still does to some extent). My guess is that she had her hands close to her face in the womb, and that's her comfortable pose. So, we placed mittens on her little hands. Within half an hour, she had figured out that if she bit down on the glove and pulled down on with her hand, she could break free of the mitten trap. Just as we were admiring the precociousness of our newborn, she proceeded to stick her finger in her eye. Lots to learn.