04.22.2012 01:32 PM

It's a girl!

The "tail up" posture is associated with various feelings of uncertainty and vulnerability. In this case, trying to reconcile instincts to get up and find milk are in conflict with newly-liberated muscles that need to gain strength, and lungs that have only recently inflated taking over the job of oxygenating blood.

I took another photographic intermission and removed the rest of the membrane from the baby's body before snapping this pic. It's not necessary, but helps me out when I do the blow-drying,