Day One...

Our first day with Liam has been great after all 3 of us were able to get enough sleep last night to feel human again. We have been hanging out with Liam (watching him sleep, make faces and cry...a little) and the nurses have been great about helping with everything from changing diapers to overcoming breastfeeding challenges. We are at Sky Ridge hospital which is only 2 years old and only 10 minutes from our house. It's been a great experience as the hospital is new, clean and very well staffed. I got the scare of my life already when I went with him to have some tests to the nursery and he started choking!! It turns out that he still had some amniotic fluid in his stomach, which is hard to digest, and he spit that up and starting to choke on it. This is apparently normal...but no one told me that! Fortunately the nurse was right there and quickly sorted him out with a little blue suction thingy. I am not 'on guard' for any type situations and know what to do.

Annette has been great with her breastfeeding efforts and being a big lad he's hungry and seems to like her boobs (no surprise there...he's my son afterall). They have lactation consultants on staff here and they have been great helping Annette and Liam form the right habits for feeding. She'll be doing it every 2-3 hours for months so best to get it right!

I've also been making good use of my new camera taking a billion pictures of the little guy and my lovely wife. We are going to be discharged tomorrow as both Liam and Annette are doing well - so our first night in our own home will be on Wednesday 20th. It will be great to be home with him although I dread my first business trip. It's going to be horrible having to leave them both for something as silly as work.

Thanks everyone for your best wishes, sorry that we haven't responded just yet as we are obviously busy..but I hope that this blog gives you some idea as to what we're up to and how the three of us are doing. More to come soon!