Lily with... mom and dad

Lily's parents have been very doting in her 11 days on the outside. A few family pictures are below.







Dad changing and Mom photographing Lily:


Family portrait taken the day when Lily was a week old:


More photos from that day:






We made muffins (cranberry pecan variety) to celebrate a week of relatively successful child rearing. Lily showed little interest so Mom gave her a hand:


Proud and beautiful Mom admiring her handy work:

Lily awake

Lily isn't spending a lot of time awake yet but she is photographed regularly when she is awake. Here is a series of photos taken over three days.

6 days old:




















These were taken while she finished listening to Bach's Goldberg Variations (she's a week old here):








Lily took a nap after she finished listening to music:


Lily on the bed (8 days old):

first few days

A few photos from her first five days outside:





going home outfit:


kisses from new mom and dad:




lost in a giant car seat:


getting ready to spend first night at home:




First full day at home - day 4 on the outside:




tummy time:


Asleep in the frog:


Awake!




More to come.

baby Lily

Baby Lily came into the world after her mother laboured for ~75 hours.

Liz's contractions initially began at 3am on Friday. She had an appointment at 3pm to check her and the child's health. Both were very healthy and we returned home where Liz continued to labour. She even got a bit of sleep Friday night! Her contractions continued throughout Saturday and became more and more severe with lots of pain in her back. The pain became bad enough to go to the hospital a second time at around midnight on Sunday.



After evaluation by the midwife on call, Liz chose to continue labouring at home. She did not get any productive sleep that night and was very uncomfortable in the morning. Her water broke at around 10am on Sunday and we took a third trip to the hospital; this time staying.

We arrived at the delivery room just before 1pm and Liz spent the next 14.5hrs trying to ease the increasingly severe pain of contractions.





At 3.30am on Monday, Liz began pushing and Lily emerged just after 6am. She shares a birthday with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and John Updike.

Lily at ~3min old:



Stats:






Exhausted:


First bath:




Proud (and tired) mommy:


First hug from dad:


Doting grandparents:


New family: