Monthly Archives: July 2007

First Pediatrician Visit

Today we visited our pediatrician Dr. Ristaino. This was Isaac’s first trip out of the house since we came home, and we decked him up pretty and put him in his car seat.

Looks a bit like a disgruntled gnome. Endearing if you are a parent, but kind of hilarious regardless. Anyhoo, he checked out pink [...]

Last Day at the Hospital

We got to stay an extra day at the hospital because Isaac isn’t all that sharp in the eating department. A bunch of different nurses have tried many different techniques to get Isaac working at the breast, but he appears to have inherited my laziness factor. So he latches on, but then he just sits [...]

Fourth of July

Today we spent some time trying to figure out how Isaac works. Baby’s are a bit complicated; who knew? Isaac was sporting a superfly fourth of july knit cap, made by volunteers for all the baby’s at Emerson.

Learning Who Mama Is

After Isaac was all born and stuff he met up with Mama in the nursery. Mama gave him a good snuggle and explained a bit about what was going on. All the noise in the background is a construction crew building a new wing on the hospital, which was nice for Blossom to have right [...]

The Big Event

Sunday morning, July 1, Blossom began to have contraction or two. They were pretty mild and didn’t stop her from going shopping down in Framingham for an item or 3. She came back, had some food, and rested a bit. By 6:00 PM she thought she might be in false labor so we decided to [...]