Adam meets Grandma & Grandad

Adam met one set of Grandparents for the first time today. They came to see him on their way home from a week away in a holiday cottage.

Adam's First Time in the Big Bath

Adam has been home for a day or two now. Today he had his first experience of a bath in the big bathroom bath. He doesn't look too impressed with the whole thing!

Adam's First Bath

Today we gave Adam his first bath experience. As you can see in the video, he was not totally happy about it!

Day 2

I took Natalie in to the hospital again today to see her baby brother, and Mum of course.

Natalie meets Adam - Video

I took this video of Natalie meeting her baby brother for the first time when I took her into the hospital in the afternoon on the day Adam was born.

Adam meets his Sister

Adam got to meet his sister Natalie in the afternoon. Natalie was so excited about meeting her baby brother. For weeks she has been giving hugs to Mummy's tummy, telling us she was going to share her treasured blanket with him, and asking when he was coming out of Mum's belly.

Natalie took over Mummy's hospital bed to sit with her baby brother. She was thrilled and went all gooey over him, telling us he was really sweet, and had little hands and a little nose.

Natalie examines her new baby brother

Adam, Natalie & Mum all together on the bed in the hospital

Adam with his Dad

Mum is feeling well enough to operate the camera this afternoon, giving Dad a chance to be photographed with his son.

 

Proud Dad

 

Baby boy in Daddy's arms

Adam makes his entrance into the world

We were expecting our second child to be delivered on Wednesday morning. Plans were in place for his big sister to be looked after by friends so that Dad could be with Mum at the hospital. But Adam had other plans, and started to make his intentions apparent in the early hours of Monday morning. But after a morning spent at the maternity hospital we were told it was a false alarm and sent home again. Adam wasn't having any of it, and made another attempt to change the schedule to his choosing that evening. Mum went into labour around 6pm on the Monday evening, and we had to call local friends in a hurry to get them to come and baby sit for Adam's sister. In the delivery unit, it appeared at first that Mum's labour was well advanced. But at 11pm a reassessment resulted in a change in plans again as it appears Mum's labour was actually in the early stages. Adam was struggling a bit at this point, and the only real option was for Mum to have another emergency C-section delivery. Adam made his entry into the world just after midnight, making his birthday the Tuesday by just 7 minutes. The procedure appeared to go very smoothly, with Dad by Mum's side throughout. It was lovely to be able to cuddle our new baby boy immediately following the birth, after our previous experience with his big sister 3 years ago.

Adam with Mum, at around 10 hours old

 Our new born baby boy

 Mum & Baby