Bunny Suit Again

So, I donned it again - the white clean suit they make dads wear in the operating room when accompanying their wife for surgery.  Isabella Margaret Fleming was born at 7:47am, December 23, 2010.  She weighed in at 8.02 pounds and 21.5 inches long.  Her crown measured 14 inches.  Apgar score of 8 and 9 and an A+ rating from the pediatrician.

Certainly a lot has happened since my last post - showing that I am a fair weather blog author, only posting when I have time off of work.  Liam has gotten the hang of eating, such that he's high in the percentiles for size.  He's now running everywhere he goes and there's so much that I could go on about his childhood development thus far.  However, this is Isabella's day, our daughter's birthday, and the focus should be on her at this time.

Not long after Liam was born, we were told that he really deserves to have a few years as an only child... Oops, then life happens and we find out that he's going to be a big brother within 2 years of life.  From the get go Isabella was determined to arrive and be healthy.  Beside the nausea for 34 weeks and being breach for much of that, we couldn't have asked for a better pregnancy and delivery.  She cried the entire time we were in the OR and until she got into her mother's arms when we realized that she was just hungry.  After a little fuss here and there she's been happy to just sleep in momma's arms and nurse every 2 hours or so with the occasional rocking by daddy.  Posting this at 9:30 pm, we'll see if she's just been saving up her awake time for the overnight...

One thing I forgot about but thoroughly enjoy is the euphoria felt, despite the tired eyes, with a new baby.  I find myself baby-talking, humming and singing to her and in general pretty care-free.  Though I don't know if it's the fact that I don't have to go to work for a while, I'd like to believe that it's because of our daughter.

After talking this event up to Liam for months, the day before she's to come he begins to projectile vomit - he finally caught the flu bug that'd flown through daycare.  It really couldn't be any other way, right? He'll have to wait a bit to meet her, but he did kiss the computer screen when viewing pictures we sent home (and you may all say it - AWWWWW how cute).

We are blessed to now have 2 healthy children and the support of family to see this event through.  Can't wait to get back to life, but for now kicking back and only having to care for an infant (with a nursery down the hall) is alright for me.