The first 48 hours

Well, the first 48 hours have flown by. After the post on Monday, we spent most of the evening waking up to two things. One was all the machines Denise was hooked up to kept having alarms going off. Don't worry. They were all stupid false alarms. The second was, of course Evan. However, he actually slept pretty well. The biggest issue was getting him to breastfeed. One would think you'd just show him where to go and let his instincts take over. Apparently, it's a little more complicated than that. Since he wouldn't always "go to town", we actually "supplemented" him with an ounce or two of formula. They're worried about "nipple confusion" (we'll save Eric's comments for that topic). So, we actually let him suck on a finger and then put the formula in an eye dropper and let him suck it out of the corner of his mouth. This really helped us when he wouldn't sleep in the middle of the night. Now, both Evan and Denise have made a lot of progress. He's nursing well now. A good feeding will pretty much put him asleep for 2-3 hours.

The last two days we had a lot of visitors (all grandparents, the only living great grandparent, two aunts, an uncle, four friends, and a partridge in a pear tree). We're hoping we can go home tomorrow. We're looking forward to getting settled and getting Eddie (the cat) introduced to Evan. Then, we're hoping the rest of you will get a chance to swing by and see him if you'd like.

Until next time, here's a couple new pictures. We had to leave the funniest picture off the website. While breast feeding, Evan extended his middle finger at Eric! I guess now Eric knows he really is the father!