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[rivka]

Michael and Colin are asleep together in an armchair, Michael's shirt open and Colin stripped to a diaper (but covered with blankets) so that they can be skin-to-skin. It is such a beautiful sight.

I have just had a shower, which was marvelous, and have read everyone's comments - thanks so much for all your love and good wishes. I should be napping, but I'm too happy.

A few more things about our boy: he has a full thick head of reddish-brown hair. (More color accuracy will be possible once we've washed the vernix out.) He makes these adorable little high squeaky sounds for no apparent reason. He's twenty inches long, and a goodly part of his eight pounds of weight is fat - he's got a double chin and plump juicy arms and legs.

He cried and cried while we were still up on the L&D floor, a time when I remember Alex being very calm and alert. On the other hand, since then he's cried very little at all. He was up for a fair portion of the night, as newborns tend to be, but he alternated between calmly nursing and calmly looking around with wide dark blue eyes. No screaming, no extended fussing. Alex cried for much of her first night and was very hard to settle.

Nursing seems to be going well. He's very particular about how he wants to be put on, but the details of his preferences elude me so far. I just attempt and attempt until he signal that I did the magic thing by latching on. He's got a pretty good latch and a strong, vigorous suck. Newborn sleepiness is not getting in the way of nursing - I don't have to undress him and massage him and all the things I had to do to get Alex to wake up and nurse. He just goes at it. Yay, Colin.

We'll be going home tomorrow. Tonight Michael and Alex are going to come back to the hospital with sushi and cake for a little family welcome party. Life is good.

Comments

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

That sounds splendid. I hope you are well yourself.

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

*squee*

I'm loving these posts :D

N.

[journeywoman.livejournal.com]

Awwww! That's such a sweet image. I'm so happy that everything is going so well!

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

Life is good.

Yes it is, indeed. Enjoy the sushi and cake, and the family time most of all.

[ailbhe]

Oh, lovely! I'm so glad!

[ailsaek.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's just wonderful. I am so happy for all of you.

[eeyorerin]

I thought he looked rather strawbery blond in that first photo, but it was rather hard to tell.

He looks like a very sturdy wee lad, as contradictory as that sounds.

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

Awww.

[tiger-spot.livejournal.com]

Awwww. Congratulations on your beautiful family.

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

I've been reading your LJ since before you were pregnant with Alex and I've really enjoyed reading your posts about the pregnancy and child development. I wonder how you find the time to write so much and so well, and I hope that with two children you can keep it up. I'm looking forward to seeing how Alex takes to big sisterhood and just wanted to leave a comment to say congratulations, but also THANKYOU for sharing your family with us.

[chargirlgenius.livejournal.com]

It's amazing how two brand new tiny little people can be their own person, right from the first minutes. It all sounds lovely. Thank you for posting pics and stories, and I look forward to hearing more.

[lydy.livejournal.com]

As others have already said, thanks for posting. Congratulations. Colin is a lovely name.

[puzzlement.livejournal.com]

Sounds beautiful and Colin is looking good. I hope you all have a lovely party and that you all get lots of sleep as and when the opportunities pop up.

[redbird]

Excellent! Healthy baby, a shower, nursing, family, sushi, and cake: it sounds very well arranged.

[lizzibabe.livejournal.com]

[Does the HappyJoyFatBaby!!Dance]

This is wonderful!

[ratphooey.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[hal-obrien.livejournal.com]

Mazeltov! Truly. This sounds great all around.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

It sounds like things are going quite well!

And just to be sure, are we pronouncing his name Cah lun or Colon?

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Or Coh-lin ("coh" as in "cough" and "lin" as in "lint") which is the only way I'd ever heard it pronounced until Colin Powell got into the news.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

That's how we're pronouncing it, except that in our accents the "coh" sound in cough is pretty much like Marilee's "cah." But definitely "lin" as in "lint." And definitely not like Colin Powell.

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

Awww :-)

[selki.livejournal.com]

Hurray! And what a big healthy-looking baby!

[whumpdotcom.livejournal.com]

Welcome Baby Colin! Congrats to you all.

[cassandre.livejournal.com]

Congratulations to the whole family!

[zencuppa.livejournal.com]

Congratulations to you and your family!!! Thanks for posting a picture . . .

*sigh* I love newborns.

[kalikanzara.livejournal.com]

belated congrats!

[ailbhe]

Unrelated to the baby, are those red DM Mary Janes?

[kalikanzara.livejournal.com]

Nope -they were probably Bjorn clones that I found in some department or discount store, but they've held up pretty well.

[sashajwolf.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[kate_nepveu]

Yay, well-eating baby and bonding and calm and sweet!

(Weirdly, SteelyKid was also 20" and a little heavier, 8lb 2oz, and I don't remember thinking she was plump at all. But then, looking back at those old pictures, I might just be distracted by the jaundice and the tiny floppiness.)

[sciamanna.livejournal.com]

Catching up on LJ backwards, so I give you my congratulations here! Hope you are all doing well :-)

[tendyl.livejournal.com]

Much congrats and well wishes

[ahforgetit.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, to you and Michael and welcome, Colin.

[baratron.livejournal.com]

I don't read livejournal for a few days and you go and have your baby! Hehe. Hope all is well with the four of you. I'll try to catch up now :)

[ex-serenejo.livejournal.com]

I'm so envious of you, in a good way. I'm very, very happy for your family, and for you. Yay!