Happily reporting here from mission control headquarters that baby Sophie is doing GREAT and we are tucked away at home with my folks visiting, still recovering from the delivery excitement…

Long story short: we have the sweetest most beautiful little girl ever !!! And she certainly made a high-maintenance entrance. Unfortunately due to some ill-placed holes in my spinal column during the course of getting the epidural, i have been flat on my back ever since delivery waiting for the spine to heal and me to be able to stand up without fainting from crushing headaches. Not the most auspicious start to motherhood, but Sophie and I have lots of time to bond and plan our future travels.

I can confirm that typing from the flat position is not so easy, so will leave you with a few happy family photos. There’s really nothing better in the world than being able to say “we are a family now!”

And a HEARTFELT THANK YOU to all of you who wrote, visited, called, prayed and more! Especially Sally without whom this entire production would have never been possible. More on all that when things settle down…

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Just after the c-section…Soenke looks hot in his scrubs! And mommy is just SO GLAD it’s finally over…

Thank you Knut for doing Sophie’s first photo shoot!!

This is Sally, Head Messenger, reporting in on behalf of the Crawford-Einfeldt duo (now trio) with more details.

After a very long and turbulent journey, Jennifer Crawford and Sönke Einfeldt finally welcomed Sophie Celine to life outside the womb yesterday, May 22, 2007 at 11:21 p.m. at Marienkrankenhaus in Hamburg. Sophie weighed in at 4240g and measured 53cm. Her head is a whopping 38cm in diameter. (That’s 9.35 pounds, 20.86 inches and 14.96 inches, not 48 inches, like I had initially reported).

Here’s the princess:

Jennifer is recovering slowly, but surely from the absolute longest, but surely happiest, day of her life. Sönke is the happiest guy on the block. I unfortunately only got a shot of Jennifer with Sophie this time around but next time I’ll be sure to visit when Sönke is around.