Welcome to the world George!

George arrived on Monday, February 19, 2007, at 3:38 pm. He weighed in at 7 pounds 2 ounces and was 19.5 inches long. Once more for the record... I was NOT in labor for 28 hours. Heck, I wasn't even at the hospital for 24 hours before he arrived. And he was NOT in distress... he was just not happy with the contractions I was having that I could not even feel (shout out to Dr. Cabral the anesthesiologist for the awesome epidural!) so Dr. Ashkin felt it would be best to help him out. Tom was wonderful throughout the entire process, making sure I was ok and that the boy was all right when he came out, getting me ice chips even when the nurses said I couldn't have any, and just being there with me. Thanks to Gretchen for making me laugh (surely it's time to push!) those last few hours when I had to lay on my side hanging onto the bed rail so I wouldn't flop over.

Here he is at about 1 minute old -

He seems a bit dazed by the whole process!

He did NOT enjoy his first bath (still doesn't like them for that matter)...

but he did enjoy the back rub (and still does!)



And finally, after an hour of being banged around, he got to rest. Poor guy, he looks like he was in a fight.We brought him home on Thursday the 22nd. Getting ready to go home was an arduous task... first he had to get dressed (thanks to Ashley for the cute little outfit)... after days of hanging out in a diaper and t-shirt we expected him to wear clothes! After wrestling him into them, he decided it was a good time for a diaper change. In trying to keep his outfit clean while getting a new diaper on, we managed to let him pee on himself - including a good squirt on his face! The poor guy was NOT happy while we furiously wiped him down before the nurse came back into the room... and they still let us keep him!


And while I was induced to start labor, I don't think he was really overdue even though his due date was the 16th. When I had my first appointment with Dr. Ashkin I told him my calculations had the baby arriving on February 19. The doctors had him pegged for the 16th. It's good to know George listens to his mother. HA!