Day: October 8, 2014

mOm will get more of them, but here’s one.

 

Grandma laughing.  That’s me with 4Hr Callback (a perfectly acceptable nickname for a kid who made his appearance after 4 hours of labour) and his exceedingly mellow mom.  The delivery room nurses, when she left the hospital at 8 am on Monday (literally the soonest they would discharge her without putting a big fat AMA on the chart), told her that she had no right to look like she hadn’t just given birth.  Apgar 8 and 9 and a solid feeder, although still quite sleepy.  He has the least annoying cry of any newborn I ever heard, and only demonstrated it to show he could do it, as far as I can tell.  A solid, well-fleshed child, the image of his da.