Graham James Wilbur!

On Wednesday November 23rd, Graham James Wilbur was born. He was 7 lbs 8 oz and 21 inches. Here is Jen as we were heading to the hospital the night before.

When we got to the hospital we had to wait for about 30 minutes for a room to open up. They had 19 labor and delivery rooms and I think that they were full all day and all the next day.

Jen was up all night dealing with contraction and then at 9:30 they called the doctor and he arrived at around 9:45 and Jen pushed for about 10 minutes. Here is Graham.

Too little hair to see if there is any red yet. We think he looks a lot like Tyler but I will do a baby pcture comparison on another day. He doesn't like being cold in any way, he loves being warm and snug. So far he has been happy just to be bundled up and warm. He also didn't like light very much. The first day he didn't open his eyes but for a few precious moments, usually when it was darker.

The hospital does a skin to skin time where they place the baby on the mother's chest for an hour for bonding time. This made it difficult to get tasteful pictures with Graham and Jen right after. There are some later though.

The kids love him so much. Kate just sat and stared at him. Ty was interested for a minute or two and then went and explored the room jumping off beds and looking out in the hall at nurses and babies.

It seems he has a red birthmark on his right side. The nurses  thought it was a stork bite but it hasn't yet gone away so we will see.

The timing was great, we had all of our siblings, less Mike and Jen, in town for Thanksgiving. Plus, I only missed one day of work. And we were able to enjoy Thanksgiving dinner as well. Pluses all around.

This is us waiting for Greg to come with the car. We were surprised by the nurse telling us we could be discharged. Jen had tested positive for Strep B and got anti-biotics all night. The rule of thumb is to stay 48 hours which meant missing Thanksgiving dinner.

Fortunately, Jen's doctor said that Graham's vitals were great and that we could go home. We had to wait a while because our doctor didn't see the second sheet of patients to visit and left before seeing us and had to ask another doctor to check Graham out for us. That doctor came after his rounds and then said that his group hold firm on the 48 hours but Graham looked good and if our doctor was ok with us going home, we could. We waited to hear from someone about what our doctor said when the nurse came in and started to discharge us. She said our doctor had already given the ok if the other doctor thought Graham looked ok.

Going home!

We came home about 10 minutes before they were going to have Thanksgiving dinner. We walked in and sat down to Thanksgiving dinner. Pretty good timing if you ask me.

Graham likes to suck it seems. He sucked his fingers during the skin to skin time. Here is Kate and Graham bonding though finger sucking time.

Jen and Graham are doing great. He hasn't been too bad at night. He is a very calm baby. At least so far, we'll see! We are excited for the addition to our family.