These pics are from our camera. Dan was able to go get it on Thursday while I was still in the hospital. The photo download picks up from my shower.
I included this pic of my stomach because it surprised me to see it like this again. This breastfeeding thing has been the best weight loss program that has to be known to mankind. Too bad you have to have been pregnant recently for it to work. This was taken on Saturday, March 24, when I weighed about 172 lbs. Since my maternity clothing has been loose for the past few days and my stomach seemed oddly "small" when I looked at my reflection today, I weighed myself this morning out of curiosity. I've lost a little over 22 lbs in two weeks.
Greenwich Hospital gives a special celebration dinner for new parents on the night before the mother is to be released from the hospital. (In my case, the dinner was Thursday March 29). The choices for dinner are filet mignon, roast salmon, roasted cornish game hens or lobster tail. Since I'd been deprived of shellfish for eight months, you know I went right for the lobster tail along with shimp cocktail for an appetizer. The dinner also comes with champagne which was OK for me to have in small amounts despite breastfeeding. This room was the postpartum room to which I was moved at 8 PM on Wednesday night. (March 28). That would be the room in which none of you could find me. Without a phone card, I was unable to make long distance phone calls and my cellular service did not work well in the hospital.
Dan with champagne at Celebration dinner. (March 29)
Dan and Alex on Thursday night (3/29). He was finally allowed in the NICU that evening.
Alex getting his first feeding from Daddy - Thursday night.
Alex close up. Fed by Daddy. Thursday night.
Alex, doing what he'd do after 15-20 ml of milk for the first three days of his life - sleeping. The tube was reinserted to feed him the remaining 20 ml.
Alex, after waking a little.
Alex's birth card from the nursery (NICU in his case). I had asked them to insert his full name so that my father-in-law could see the middle name. Gerardo hadn't known that we gave him the middle name "Gerard" until Orquidea pointed it out on the card to him. Dan doesn't have a middle name, so I think it might not have occurred to my in-laws to ask us what Alex's middle name would be.
A big moment for us on Friday afternoon. Alex got "promoted" out of an incubator and into an open bassinet.
My father-in-law, Gerardo, meets Alex on Friday afternoon. (March 30)
My mother-in-law, Orquidea holds Alex on Saturday afternoon. (March 31) You can see the tube in his nose which indicates he still wasn't taking full feedings from the bottle.
Me leaving the hospital on Friday afternoon with the leopard Donna and Ellen gave me Wednesday night. It was depressing to have to leave the hospital without a baby. I insisted on holding the leopard instead. The saint pushing me is Nurse Mary - witness to The Screaming Hours of 9:30 AM to 11:00 AM on Wednesday while waiting for the anesthesiologist and while he worked for about 15 minutes to get the epidural in.
April 1, 2007
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