For the last few days, Simon has spent much more of his time awake. (Soon we’ll post new pics where Simon is doing something other than sleeping.) There’s a downside to this, as I can no longer plan on regularly spaced two-hour blocks of time to eat, go for walks, run errands, clean, read, knit,etc. […]
Monthly Archive for November, 2006
Today was Simon’s three-week birthday and his second trip to the pediatrician. As you can see, he had a great time at the office. At Simon’s last visit, he weighed 6 lbs, 10 ozs. They want babies his age to gain an ounce a day, so today he should have weighed 7 1/2 lbs. Well, […]
Check out more pictures as Simon approaches week three.
As most of you know, Simon spent his first days in the NICU because he aspirated amniotic fluid, which resulted in irregular breathing. His stay in the NICU ran five days and four nights. They did chest X-rays, had him on oxygen, ran antibiotics via an IV, had him hooked up to monitors, and did […]
Before Simon was born, I spent much time wondering what he (or she, since I didn’t know) might look like. Matt and I are physical opposites, so the possibilities were endless. Would his hair be reddish and straight or dark and curly? Would he get Matt’s large but distinguished nose, or my family’s equally large […]
Yesterday Simon hit another milestone. For the first time that I’ve seen, his crying was accompanied by tears. Previously, when he cried his body twitched, his forehead crinkled, and his wailed his heart out, but his eyes remained dry. Turns out new babies don’t have functional tear ducts for the first two to three weeks. […]