thanksgiving +

After a nice thankgiving meal with my parents and martha's mom (grilled sweet potatoes by me - turkey by my mom!) we were off to boston. Two good friends lent us their awesome condo in brookline for the post-holiday weekend - Amitabh and Jess - thanks again to you both - buy cool cards from Jess here : www.jessicasmithdesigns.com.

Nicolas's latest stats: 2lbs and 13 ounces, no longer needs the heater in the isolette and is wrapped up like a little burrito. He's wearing clothes now - and its fun for us to dress him even though he doesn't really enjoy it. :-) He also was able to eat a little this weekend off martha - he has the reflexes and the intuition but not the stamina yet. He gets tired after 5 minutes and is then fast asleep.

Martha and I are quickly getting over our fear of holding him and are now doing all the chores we can with him which include: taking his temperature (underarm), changing his diaper, dressing him, removing him from the isolette, and holding him. We get to hold him for an hour a day and are taking turns. :-)



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photo of nicolas - Nov21.2004

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my first posting - nicolas arrives!

first post dedicated to nicolas henri meier -- 3 weeks old now - came into the world on Nov.1 at 12:04am. I raced from our home to Beth Israel Deaconess in brookline, MA in 40 minutes driving as fast as possible (normal drive time 2hours). I figured if i got pulled over I had the best excuse for speeding in the world --my wife is having our baby -- :-)

When i got to the hospital i was gowned up and led to the delivery room and martha was already there. I could see they had started already - but i didn't take any pictures of my wife's internal organs. I snapped pictures of her and she started laughing at me - and then worried that her laughing would make the doctors slip up or something.

Nicolas arrived shortly -- with a little crying that was the best sound I've ever heard.

He's been in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ever since then. First with alot of help breathing and then not so much. Then with a heart murmur and then that was fixed. Now with an infection but doing ok for a tiny little boy. He is now 2lbs and 4 ounces and still hates being changed. He has apnea and sometimes forgets to breathe - which is nervewracking - last night the alarm went off and i patted his back to start him up again. I plan on telling him this the first time he gives me attitude. :-)

Martha and I are pretty tired -- we go up to Boston each night to see him for a few hours. Martha's mom arrived the day after he was born and has been a huge help to us. I will be happy when we finally get to bring him home.