{"id":11356,"date":"2015-10-26T02:11:31","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T06:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/verastic.com\/?p=11356"},"modified":"2015-10-27T00:19:05","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T04:19:05","slug":"dear-sweet-potatoes-im-a-mommy-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/personal\/dear-sweet-potatoes-im-a-mommy-now.html","title":{"rendered":"Dear Sweet Potatoes, I’m A Mommy Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

The rumors are true.<\/p>\n

\"Ada-Is-Here\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I, Vera Ezimora, am now a mommy. Igwe and I welcomed our baby girl on Tuesday, October 20th 2015 at 5:19 PM. She weighed 8 pounds and 10 oz and measured 20.5 inches. For those who measure weight in kilograms, she weighed about 3.8 kilograms. No, she was not a small baby at all. But then, we cannot be surprised. A lion can never give birth to a goat. Ha!<\/p>\n

For now, she’s a yellow paw paw baby, but there’s no telling what color she will eventually be. When I show you her face, you can determine for yourself who you think she looks like. Yes, Igwe won the battle of the sexes.<\/strong> <\/a>He wanted a girl, and I wanted a boy. He won. I guess we’ll continue the battle next time.<\/p>\n

Sooooo much has happened in the past few days — as you can imagine. I’m looking forward to telling you all about it soon. The story is just too much for one post. I haven’t even finished my journey to baby posts and it’s already become a journey after baby. Not to worry, I’ll continue the story. I might make a video if the spirit moves me. I finally have my maternity pictures, and I’ll be sharing them here tomorrow, so come back!<\/p>\n

For now, we are prepping for the naming ceremony, which will be held tomorrow. If you’re a Sweet Potato in the area and you want to come celebrate with us, please email me! I can’t put the address here, but if you’re interested in coming – and I would absolutely love to have you – please email me. The naming ceremony isn’t my culture, but it’s Igwe’s culture. Left to me, I won’t be having one. Igwe was kind enough to give me that option\u00a0(of not having a naming ceremony)\u00a0but I don’t want to take the naming ceremony experience from him either, so naming ceremony, here we come.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, I shared the above picture on Facebook and Instagram, so I’m embedding it here for you to be following us to be laughing and to be rejoicing.*Trying to sound like the characters from Beasts Of No Nation*<\/em><\/p>\n

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