So, yeah - this is late. Apparently (for those of you who haven't had the luxury of going through the experience), having a kid takes up a lot of time. Enjoy that tidbit of a warning. But, then again, it's totally worth it. If you haven't had a chance to see some of the amazing photos that were put up on Facebook by our friend, Janel, you're totally missing out on some of the most adorable baby shots ever (sue me, I'm biased on the subject).
Matthew's doing amazing - we went in for his one week checkup to find that he's already back over his birth weight benchmark (apparently this is a 'goal' that they have for newborns to achieve by week 2. My son, who eats like a small football team, achieved this in less than a week.) and that his overall progress is great. I'm pretty sure that we haven't gone into their office without one of the nurses 'kidnapping' him to go and show everyone else how awesome this kid is. Also, for the other new parents (or parents-to-be, in some of our readers' CASES [you see what I did there?]), you really need to check out the Woombies. These things are one of the most ingenious designs of a easy swaddling device that I've seen in my (somewhat limited) time as a parent. And they're cheap. Did someone order a win-win? Cause they just delivered it here: http://www.woombie.com/
Kyara is adopting her new 'charge' without too much trouble (her concern is currently limited to making sure that we remembered to bring him home every time we go out with him and to periodically check on him throughout the night to make sure that he's still 'planted' in his crib). Anna has taken on being a mom with a good amount of care - there were some rocky areas that we both had to get over on the first few days (primarily the realization that they actually let us leave the hospital with another human being without making us sign anything or take a test or swear a pledge of ownership - at least for me it was....still trying to get my head around that one, to be honest).
We're still getting through the first 2 week stage of having a child (which I'm sure has been severely padded for us by the presence of a great family support system here by Anna's mom), but I think that once we get through the initial phase of "what the hell do we do now?" that we'll be back in the mood for some visitors and life will return to (or at least seek to achieve a form of) normality.
I hope?
Matthew's doing amazing - we went in for his one week checkup to find that he's already back over his birth weight benchmark (apparently this is a 'goal' that they have for newborns to achieve by week 2. My son, who eats like a small football team, achieved this in less than a week.) and that his overall progress is great. I'm pretty sure that we haven't gone into their office without one of the nurses 'kidnapping' him to go and show everyone else how awesome this kid is. Also, for the other new parents (or parents-to-be, in some of our readers' CASES [you see what I did there?]), you really need to check out the Woombies. These things are one of the most ingenious designs of a easy swaddling device that I've seen in my (somewhat limited) time as a parent. And they're cheap. Did someone order a win-win? Cause they just delivered it here: http://www.woombie.com/
Kyara is adopting her new 'charge' without too much trouble (her concern is currently limited to making sure that we remembered to bring him home every time we go out with him and to periodically check on him throughout the night to make sure that he's still 'planted' in his crib). Anna has taken on being a mom with a good amount of care - there were some rocky areas that we both had to get over on the first few days (primarily the realization that they actually let us leave the hospital with another human being without making us sign anything or take a test or swear a pledge of ownership - at least for me it was....still trying to get my head around that one, to be honest).
We're still getting through the first 2 week stage of having a child (which I'm sure has been severely padded for us by the presence of a great family support system here by Anna's mom), but I think that once we get through the initial phase of "what the hell do we do now?" that we'll be back in the mood for some visitors and life will return to (or at least seek to achieve a form of) normality.
I hope?
