Friday, March 29, 2013

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 with Lily

Dad with Lily

Mom with Lily

Dad changing and Mom photographing Lily:
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Family portrait taken the day when Lily was a week old:
the family

More photos from that day:
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Lily with mom

Lily with mom

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:
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Proud and beautiful Mom admiring her handy work:
Lily and mom

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Lily awake

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:
Lily awake

Lily awake

Lily awake

Lily awake

Lily awake

Lily awake

Lily awake

Lily awake

Lily awake

Lily awake

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

listening to music

listening to music

listening to music

Lily took a nap after she finished listening to music:
listening to music

Lily on the bed (8 days old):
Lily on bed

Lily on bed

Lily on bed

Lily on bed

Lily on bed

Saturday, March 23, 2013

first few days

A few photos from her first five days outside:

Lily

Lily

going home outfit:
going home outfit

kisses from new mom and dad:
getting ready to go home

getting ready to go home

lost in a giant car seat:
in car seat

getting ready to spend first night at home:
sleepy Lily

sleepy Lily

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

proud mommy

tummy time:
tummy time

Asleep in the frog:
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Awake!
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Lily

More to come.

Thursday, March 21, 2013

baby Lily

yawning
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.

labouring

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.

labouring

labouring

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:
Lily


Stats:
Lily in grams

Lily in pounds

long baby

Exhausted:
exhausted

First bath:
bath time

combing

Proud (and tired) mommy:
proud Mom

First hug from dad:
first hug

Doting grandparents:
doting grandparents

New family:
family