Gavin’s only a few days old here. I love this close-up. You can really see his squished face and the bruises he got on his eyelids during birth. Who does he get that hairy forehead from?
Being Born Took a Lot Out of Me! Nap time!
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As you can see, our swaddle technique pretty much sucks. But before this, we were only able to practice on the dogs. So, please cut us a little slack. It’s not easy to swaddle babies after the sleep deprivation starts playing with your brain.
Cuddling with the Monkeys...
Yep, he’s got no strength to hold himself up. So Steph is using the natural two-finger head pinch to hold up Gavin. (About 4 days old here!)
He’s cute as a button even if we may have picked up a little Tibetan baby from the hospital instead of our own.
I'm so tired...
- Meditating like the Buddha…
We finally get Gavin home from the hospital, 1.5 days after our special delivery. I’m excited. But, it wasn’t without much fighting with the hospital staff. They’re telling Steph to relax and try and rest in the hospital, yet they are coming in every 2 hours to take her vitals or give her food or clean the room, etc.
I took this ridiculousness as more CYA than care, especially for a natural birth without meds. (It’s incredible what the body is capable of doing when unmedicated. In other countries, women give birth and then go home from the hospital in the same day.) I can see why epidurals keep women at the hospital…it’s because it numbs their entire lower half!
So, I pushed the issue. Over and over again until the hospital staff heard me. (We also have the luxury of being only 10 minutes from that hospital and 2 minutes from another, so that was also a factor…it’s not like we were 4 days camel ride away.)
I just wanted to get home so that I could take care of my wife and baby…in our warm, cozy home.
And as you can see, the Worm (not nicknamed yet…) is having his meditation time. Peaceful and serene, isn’t he?
Can You Hear Me Now?
This is the 3rd hearing test for the Worm. At the hospital, they will give the hearing test multiple times if one or both sides fail. Gavin failed the first hearing test on the right side. (I thought he was only going to have one good ear, but I made amends with it because one good ear is better than none, right?) The second time he took the test, he failed again. (I made amends with this again, because it hadn’t quite sunk in that he could be deaf in one ear yet.) The nurse said that the reason for the hearing test failure was that there could be fluid stuck in his ear, so she gave Gavin some drops and I held him over my shoulder for a few minutes to let the ear solution unclog his ear. Voila! She was right and he passed the third test with both ears functional! Yeah! He will have no excuse hearing me yell at him!
If you’re wondering about the above setup, the red and blue are the headphones and the electrode on the forehead is the probe. The baby needs to be sleeping for the test to work properly, hence my dirty finger in his mouth.
Cleaned Up and Ready to...Sleep
This picture was taken a little while after the incident with the lederhosen and the pitchfork. What? I’m trying to make this picture interesting…Ok, he’s napping soon after completing his descent from the warmth of mom’s womb.
You want me to do what?
Separating mommy from baby was my first job as a father…Does that face say “I’m clueless about fatherhood” or what?
Due to the high demand for baby pictures on this blog, we have started a new category called GPOD – Gavin Pic of the Day. It’s a way to shamelessly promote the adorability of our son Gavin. We will be starting from his very first breath of air.
Me vs. Gavin 