First Night Home

So, once again I’m up late and wanting to write something. There’s been a certain topic on my mind for a while now, and that’s the first night when my husband and I returned from the hospital with Yuuki.
Keep in mind as you read this that I had been in the hospital for three days before I was released. That is two nights spent sleeping on a hospital bed. My husband stayed with me and slept on a pull-out couch. Therefore, neither one of us had slept in a real bed in a few days.

We left the hospital pretty late on Saturday night/early Sunday morning. Now, this would be pretty normal, except for the fact that it had been storming earlier in the day, and this caused the power to be out. That’s right, we returned home to absolutely no electricity. We have a three-day-old baby, and we’re straining our eyes just to see the stairs.

The first thing we did when we returned was to make it into the nursery. From there, we need to figure out a way to see. The only thing that I could think of at the time was the mobile that we had bought for the crib. There’s a faint light on it, and it was the first thing that I reached for in the dark.

So, while I’m holding Yuuki, my husband goes around trying to find candles so, obviously, we can see. After we are able to locate one, it was the time to figure out exactly what we were going to do. No electricity means that the monitors are not going to work, so how are we supposed to hear if she cries? So what did we do?

We set up camp. Yes, my husband brought over a comforter and pillows from our room, and we had a little campout. We talked, fed Yuuki as she needed it, and switched off holding her until early morning. I still remember my husband holding Yuuki in the candlelight and the rush of love I had for him that night.

After a few hours, I told my husband that he could sleep while I stayed up with Yuuki. I watched some episodes of Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends and the musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the dark (on my husband’s laptop with a dying battery), never failing to laugh at Anya’s hatred of bunnies.

(Quote directly from IMDB)


Anya: [singing] Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes. They got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses. And what's with all the carrots? What do they need such good eyesight for anyway? Bunnies. Bunnies. It must be bunnies!

A few hours later, the electricity finally came back on. If I remember correctly, it was about 2 or 3 in the morning. I woke my husband up, we put Yuuki in her crib, then gathered our things and crawled into our nice, normal bed.