Category: 0-1 Month Maddie

There isn’t much to this video but we thought it was still pretty cute.  Here is a video of Madeline desperately fighting to wake up.  She is really having a hard time opening her eyes.   She really loved her sleep (at least at this age)

Here is a video of Madeline on Day 4 checking out the world.  In this video you will see a hand creep up a caress her face.  That is Ryan – he is being sweet and is so interested in his new sister.

Madeline’s birth was very sudden.  Grace and I were at home on Friday and I was about to make dinner when she mentioned that she felt some cramping.  It is not unusual at that stage in the pregnancy to feel some contractions so we didn’t know if this was really the big moment.  After 15 minutes Grace said “this is it!”  Daddy finished cooking dinner and ate with Ryan while Grace called the babysitter.

After about 20 minutes Reanne arrived to take care of Ryan and we took off for the hospital.  After arriving at the hospital we checked in and asked for their nicest suite.  They took Grace to the examining room and said that she wasn’t totally ready to check into her room (her contractions were 8 minutes apart).  After 15 minutes her contractions had gone from 8 to 2 minutes.  They decided to get her up to her room ASAP. Everything progressed fine and in the end Grace did get her epidural which made things so much easier compared to last time.

After Madeline was born she just didn’t want to sleep. It got to the point that one of the nurses felt so bad for Grace that she came in and held Madeline so that Grace could sleep. At this point daddy had returned home to take care of Ryan and to spend some quality time with him before taking him to meet his new sister.

After Daddy had a chance to let Ryan know that everything was ok we decided to go and have a picnic with Mommy and the new baby.  We stopped by and picked up some of Ryan’s favorite sushi (Mango sushi!) and bring it to mommy.  Ryan was very excited to meet Madeline and to have a picnic at the hospital.

Both mommy and Madeline were doing great.  At this point our friend Maddie was visiting Grace in the hospital.

Ryan was so sweet with Madeline. He was very gentle and wanted to touch her face very gently. We were cautious but there was really no need – Ryan was so sweet. Here are some photos of them together and us as a happy family.

Madeline was born at 11:01pm and weighed 3300 grams (7 lbs 4 oz).  Exactly 1 pound less than her brother Ryan.  Here are a few pictures from that special day.  We’ll post more stuff soon!