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July 01, 2008 at 08:23 PM · Posted under family
Edward just finished his first shower and was a very good little water baby (just like his dad!). The technique is a little tricky, but one hundred percent less annoying than setting up the baby wash tub. I just hold him in the shower with the water running at a comfortable temperature for him while Sarah washes him with the wash cloth and soap. No bowl of soapy water, no complicated rinsing procedure, and certainly no tricks needed to keep him warm during the bath.
When the water first hit him he cried for just a second, then quickly decided that the water was just fine with him. Even getting his face rinsed off was no big deal and, in fact, seemed to be a pretty enjoyable procedure. Cute!
And just so this post isn’t just boring text, I give you Blanket Baby:
And a rare snapshot of Plotting Baby:
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May 30, 2008 at 12:10 PM · Posted under family
Sarah and I have really loved reading everyone’s comments on the baby posts. It’s really been fun to check in every few hours and read all the well wishes. Emily, sorry your comment got caught by my spam filter. It’s out now and right with all the others.
The baby continues to be exceedingly cute. He’s learning how to be a physically separate being and we’re learning how to care for this cute little guy. Everything is going great so far. The baby has been checked a few times by the hospital nursery and is in fantastic health.
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May 29, 2008 at 09:08 PM · Posted under family
Whew, it’s nine pm and I finally have more than a couple minutes to sit and get down some actual writing.
Baby Ball is acting all supercute, of course. He was wide awake for about three hours after the delivery but has since fallen into a baby coma with only a couple of brief periods of awake.
He hasn’t really cried so far, only a couple of times while the nurses were poking and prodding or bathing him.
We’re in the post-birthing room now. It’s about a third of the size and is much less well decorated. My very long comfy couch has been replaced by a moderately comfortable recliner.
Right now baby is asleep, but practicing sucking on his left hand. Come to think of it, he’s mostly been using his left hand. How sinister :-)
His name is Edward, which is awesome because it has a ton of potential nicknames. He weighs something like 7.8 pounds and is 20 inches tall (maybe, I don’t quite remember).
He is a veritable font of cuteness. So adorable!
Sarah is doing very well and is, like the baby, resting peacefully.
We are rooming in with Edward so I have to take awake and alert until midnight to keep an eye on him.
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May 29, 2008 at 05:03 PM · Posted under family
Born just before 4pm, so cute!
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May 28, 2008 at 09:00 PM · Posted under family
Now the baby has discovered the monitors resting on his personal space and is having fun kicking them. We still hear his heartbeat in the background but now it’s drowned out by the rhythmic thuds of his kicking. It’s making some pretty funky patterns on his heart rate graph :-)
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May 28, 2008 at 08:20 PM · Posted under family
We’ve seen Dr. Cole, who is very nice (and went to NCSSM!), and things are moving along and looking the baby is coming sometime tomorrow. So Sarah and I are just hanging out and watching TV. It’s kind of like sitting around a hotel room…a hotel room with the tell-tale thudding of a baby heart! DA da dummm!
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May 28, 2008 at 05:59 PM · Posted under family
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Sarah and I are in our room in Durham Regional Hospital. It’s actually quite spacious and nice, lots of nice touches and wood accents. Soothing by design to be sure, except for the woman who was rather vocally giving birth a few rooms away. Rather disconcerting but luckily we arrived at the very end and I got to hear a baby’s little cry shortly afterward.
It’s a nice stormy day for Sarah’s birthday and the approaching birth of our cuddly baby boy. We’re finally down to the wire and parenthood is right around the corner! I’m wound up and running on a sleepless night and nothing but excited.
5:42
We just had a visit from the nurse who got all the monitors setup. Now we can hear baby’s heartbeat which is hovering around between 125 and 142 and watch the pretty graphs go by. His heartrate shoots up to the 160s and 170s when he wiggles around, so cute! Everything with Sarah and the baby looks right on target. A doctor is supposed to check in with us soon.
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February 20, 2008 at 06:03 PM · Posted under family
Here, finally, is one of the pictures we got at the last ultrasound. You can almost see what he looks like!
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February 13, 2008 at 02:58 PM · Posted under family, quicklinks
when geeks have kids
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February 08, 2008 at 05:55 PM · Posted under family
After another ultrasound our baby no longer exists in a state of uncertainty…we’re having a boy!
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January 24, 2008 at 12:19 PM · Posted under quicklinks
Do’s and don’ts with babies
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January 09, 2008 at 03:05 PM · Posted under family
Sarah and I had another ultrasound today, this one partially in realism-adding 3d. Behold!
Aww, our very own lolbaby.
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November 27, 2007 at 10:39 PM · Posted under family
Oh well. But we did get to hear the baby’s heartbeat with a doppler instrument. Well, not so much hear the heartbeat directly but static-like pulses emitted from the devices as it received sound waves distorted by the baby’s heartbeat. Apparently at twenty week we’ll be able to hear the heartbeat directly with a stethoscope. That’s also around the time that we’ll get a second look at the wee one.
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October 23, 2007 at 10:38 PM · Posted under family
“We’re having a baby.”
Today that turned from an abstract concept into solid reality with our first ultrasound of the wee one.
“We’re having a baby.” A baby! Tiny thing. An amalgamation of our respective genetic makeups. In one flash of amazement we looked at the screen and saw a tiny grey blob and the rapid fluttering of its heartbeat.
I must say, and note that I’m attempting to be impartial here, that it must be the cutest grey blob that I’ve ever seen. Seriously. If there were grey blob cuteness awards we’d be forced to clean off the mantlepiece to make room for the grand prize.
Apparently going for a clean win by nailing the performance judging, we caught a glimpse of it head on and saw it wiggling its little arms doing a simply adorable little dance. Yes my child the cute dancing grey blob. Aww.
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