Congratulations to my cousin Chuck and his wife Heather on the birth of their new son, Benton Ford, today. I’ve congratulated a lot of my friends on the arrival of their children in the past year, but this is the first congratulations I’ve sent as a dad myself. Kind makes me all sappy, ya know? [...]
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In about two hours, Simon will officially be one week old. In honor of this, Simon decided to keep us up almost all night last night. We’re fried, but we have to take him to his first appointment at the pediatrician (same one I went to thirty-some-odd years ago) this afternoon. There’s a Heine Bros. [...]
Tristan and Percival are checking out the smelly new arrival napping in his cradle. Before anyone freaks out, I should point out that Cat/Simon interaction is carefully monitored. Percy and Tristan like to stop by and sniff him occasionally (Good God, why?!), but other than that they never seem to want to get too close [...]
Everybody’s crabbin’ because I haven’t posted a lot of pictures up here yet. Well, for most of the last week, Simon has either had tubes in his face/head or been Hulk-green from jaundice. He’ll thank me for the lack of early pictures when he’s older. But Zadie and Nana visited last night and they brought [...]
Things I’ve Learned About Hospitals
Posted in Hospital Fun, Matthew on Oct 21st, 2006
I’ve learned three things about hospitals over the past few days: Hurry Up and Wait! Hospitals are some of the slowest places on earth. We arrived yesterday at about 11:30 after a phone conversation with the NICU that suggested Simon was ready to go. Four hours later we were still waiting. Information does not flow [...]
This post could alternately be titled Simon’s First Night With Absolutely Clueless Caregivers, but he’s alive and in pretty good shape this morning so I’m sticking with the title I’ve given it. Simon was finally discharged yesterday at about 4:00PM, and with help from Grandma and Bubbie, managed his first hour at home reletively uneventfully. [...]
Question: How do you know when Simon has finally come home? Answer: Mom and Dad don’t have a free minute all day to blog about the coolest day of their lives.
Pumping, Pumping, Pumping…
Posted in Matthew on Oct 20th, 2006
We have rented the Ameda Elite breast pump from our lactation consultant, and for the past several days 40 minutes out of every three hours (or so) has been spent running through the pumping ruitual: Alarm clock goes off; I smack it and shuffle into the bathroom. I rinse and dry the flanges, filters, collection [...]
Simon’s Coming Home!
Posted in Hospital Fun, Matthew on Oct 19th, 2006
We just got back from the hospital, and the neonatologist told us that she has filled out the discharge paperwork for tomorrow afternoon. Simon is still remarkably jaundiced (he was practically green last night), but he spent all of today under the UV light and his numbers are going down. Everyone’s thrilled…except for Simon — [...]
All Clear!
Posted in Hospital Fun, Matthew on Oct 18th, 2006
Jessica and I were discharged from the hospital earlier this evening. It wasn’t easy leaving Simon behind, but we weren’t really too worried about him and we knew he was in good hands in the NICU. After a trip to the 24-hour pharmacy to fill a Percocet prescription and a quick bite to eat, we [...]