Hi all, I don't have a question as such, I just wanted to talk about the fantastic 2 year old video I found last night of dd's first half hour of life. I apologise for the length and the apparent pointlessness of this post. It is just a selfish thing to get this off my chest because I didn't know we had any footage at all of the event until last night, so I am very over-excited. I didn't even think we had any photos because at the time dp wrongly insisted he didn't need the flash, so no pictures came out at all 
Somehow it all got lost in the post-natal stormy weeks/months that overtook us and I came to terms with the fact that it would all have to just be a memory in my head without any photographic proof, so to speak.
Then last night I was sorting through things, and decided to watch some home video footage by plugging the camera into the TV, (never done this before). I thought I was going to find images of our holiday to S.Africa, but I came across the most amazing, mind-blowing, breathtaking bit of video of dd just after she was lifted out of the pool. My face as I took her - wow!! - it was one of such raw, stripped down emotion. I look so vulnerable, so exhausted, so fearful and exposed and so childlike. I am clearly very tired and weak and completely overwhelmed. Then you can see her colour changing from blue to pink...her snuffles...my oh-so-shaky hands...dp's first words to me and our first 30 minutes of staring and kissing and bonding...oh, such precious, beautiful moments that have been caught for ever and I never knew about....I am so lucky to have this it keeps moving me to tears. (Much more than it did at the time).
It was also really interesting to see how things were done & the details of things that I have forgotten about. For instance, I didn't realise how long it took us to check the sex, that was more of an afterthought, and it seemed to take forever for the cord to stop pulsating when at the time I thought it was only a couple of minutes. I never realised how calm and snuffly she was either, I think I was too overwhelmed to take in what a lovely gentle time it was.
So if you have a video camera, I recommend you consider recording this if possible. Dp set the camera up on a tripod and then when dd emerged he just switched it on and forgot about it (for 2 years!! lol).
There you go, that's off my chest now, thanks for reading this far.
Do any of you have similar videos? Have you watched them much and if so what do you think of them when you watch them?