New Addition To My Family

I mentioned on this board before that I was expecting my first boy. He finally came.He doesn't have a name yet because we cannot decide between 2 really good ones.His birth was rather interesting. It just so happens that we had our last pre-natal appointment. We showed up and when our provider examined my wife she was suprised to find out that she was 8cm dialated. She had labored the previous night and all through work the next day without even realizing it. We rushed to the hospital and in a few more hours and she had progressed to 10cm and he was 3cm below the midline of her pelvis still without any pain.The finally broke her water when he wouldn't come down any more and then it felt like real labor. I thank God very mightily because towards the end he was in distress and they gave her one last chance to push him out before they were going to intervene. Because she had enough energy having been spared the labor pains she was able to do it. Little guy had his hand over his head which got him a little stuck. I never though I would see him being born hand first.He was 7lbs 10oz and 19in long. He is totally healthy so far. His only baby problem is that he is "tongue tied" which I had never heard of before. His little tongue is attached a too firmly to his lower pallet which causes it to bow when he tries to stick out his tongue.We have had him home for a little while now and things are going great. My wife is still recovering from the unusual labor but we are both very excited to have him here. I'll let you all know what name we pick when we finally decide.Thank you for all your good blessings before. They were well utilized.

Thanks all for the kind words and advice. He finally has a name.We decided to name him Dante.=)

Dante is great. He mostly only cries when he is hungry or tired.He is starting to explore his world a bit. He tracks people and bright objects. He has learned to like his baths which makes them fun. He is still not very interactive but we are only at a month.Some of his milestones though are that he pretty much has control over his neck already when he is not being lazy. When we hold him over our shoulder he pops his head up like a little gopher to look around. When he is lying on his stomach he can already push himself up a bit to explore.I am not looking forward to the immunizations either. My wife had a bad reaction to the hep b series awhile back so I am kind of nervous. I understand the need for some of the other ones but it seems sort of weird to do hep b on a baby. It is not like they are exposed to many blood borne pathogens yet. We opted out of the hep b booster at the hospital when he was born since they just get a duplicate dose anyway when they start the series in a couple of months.I can't wait for the smiley interactive part. We have been trying to get him to mimic faces like they say newborns can but it is hard to tell between a college try and just coincidence.He is still tounge tied but it is stretching out a lot and looks like it will just take care of itself before it becomes a speech issue. If it doesn't I think we will opt for the surgery. As it stands he can stick his tounge out about 1/4 of the way. The area behind where it is connected has thinned considerably and looks like soon enough there will only be the connective tissue between the very tip of his tongue and the lower pallet.

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Of course, biblical creationists are committed to belief in God's written Word, the Bible, which forbids bearing false witness; --AIG (lest they forget)

After a bath.He likes to stare at the patterns on our couch.

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Of course, biblical creationists are committed to belief in God's written Word, the Bible, which forbids bearing false witness; --AIG (lest they forget)