You Tube part II

I wanted to buy a Mac these past few days. Editing video on a PC can be frustrating to say the least but I seem to have the bugs worked out, here is some more footage. I'll have more pictures later today or tomorrow.

Madelyn continues to do what 3 week old babies do, eat, sleep and look cute.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDSX8EmV3S0

iPoo

Well the fussy baby period has begun, its great that she is awake more but sometimes she just does know what to do with herself. She's asleep on my chest right now while I peck away on the keyboard one-handed.

At times Madelyn has an endless appetite for Milk, there is nothing that she loves more. If we are not burping her we are watching her devour another meal, babies are amazing. Her iPoo outfit seems appropriate for any infant. Mom's new nickname is Input and Dad's has become Output.

You Tube here we come

I uploaded a video to YouTube this morning also:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCi7tUZc-rA

Madelyn has pleased us with a few four hours stints of sleep at night. She still sounds like a little piggy at night with all of her cute little grunts but that's ok by us. If she is a little grunter then she will be out little grunter :)

We went to the Evergreen hospital 0-3 month old parent support class yesterday as well. It's nice to connect with other parents who have just had a child. She also had her first bath in the big tub with Mom last night and seemed to like it.

Baby Sling

The baby sling arrived yesterday and it's a big hit. Madelyn spent hours in it yesterday and came out with "bed-head". She also decided to go 4 hours between feedings last night for the first time, much to our delight. She continues to eat like a champ and weighs just over 9lbs now. Her belly-button scab fell off the other day and grossed Mom out. Dad was going to save it for the scrapbook but was told that was going too far. Other proof of her growth is that she's out of the newborn diapers and into the 8-14lbs'ers.

YMCA?

Who knew that kids are born with the Village People reflex, they never told me about this in any of my baby books? All I need to find is an Indian costume and teach her how to do the 'M,C&A' and we'll be all set :)

"Really Dad, grunt...grunt I mean it this time grunt... put the camera down and go read a book or something."

Sleeping like a baby

We had the photographer who took Karin's maternity picture come over the other day, here are a few pictures that she took. Madelyn continues to be more and more alert each day and like all newborns seem to love feeding time. Feed, burp, sleep, diaper change, repeat...... Sleep for Mom and Dad is coming back in spurts of 3 hour naps between feeding times.

I'm awake

Everybody loves a burp now and again. Madelyn continues to eat well and is more alert for longer periods now to the delight of Mom and Dad.

Picture Day

We have a real Photographer coming today to take some pictures today. I got fed up with my small Sony digital camera and bought a "real" camera yesterday, so you'll see allot more pictures this week. We would also like to thank Christian and Karen for recommending "The Happiest Baby on the Block" book.

http://www.thehappiestbaby.com/

We have been able to have 2-3 hour of peaceful sleep between feedings at night and it's made a world of difference. Our RN at the doctors appointment yesterday said that we are doing better than 99% of the train wrecks that she normally has in her office. It was nice to here from her that things are going ok. We cheered when the RN told us that Madelyn is back to her birth weight and continues to eat well.

Our cat Symon seems to show more interest in Madelyn, whileWyatt strangely enough could care less.

Home Sweet Home

Here are a few more pictures. Today was spent mostly catching up on sleep :) How come nobody tells you newborns seem to decide that a good time to go to the bathroom is after you take their diaper off? And why did it take this happening three times today to remember!?

We promise many more pictures in the days to come. Now if only Swaddling would work for Wyatt (our cat) we would all be happy.

Madelyn Rose's Birthday

Madelyn Rose Potter is finally here!!

Everything got kicked off at 2:00am on Sunday 7/8/07 when Karin's water broke. Mike said "That's nice", and promptly went back to sleep knowing that it was perhaps his last good chance for a nap for a few days. Karin's contractions started getting more interesting around 4:00am and 7:30am we were dashing off to Evergreen Hospital. By 8:00am we were in the delivery room. Kathryn Leaty (a close friend of Karin's) joined us there for the birth. Baby girl was sunny-side up and giving Karin a incredible dose of back labor. Karin's had planned on a natural birth, but toward the end was asking for drugs. But the midwife, Kathryn & I all cheered her on and kept her focused and watched Madelyn come into the world at 9:23 a.m. In reality, there was really no time to administer any drugs! Mom did a amazing job despite the pain and challenges the came up. I'm at a lose for the words to describe the wave of emotions that came over us, what a wonderful day.

Madelyn took some fluid on the the way out and needed help with her breathing. Within 10 minutes after birth she was upstairs at in the Neo-Natal ward being attended to. She began breathing a short-time later, after her lungs cleared up. She improved rapidly while Mike sat transfixed beside her side.

It's never fun to find yourself in the middle of a scene from "ER", but it was comforting to watch all the Doctors, Nurses and the MidWife do their work, she was in good hands. Madelyn remained in the Neo-Natal ward for monitoring until we were discharged on Wednesday July 11th around noon.

Baby, Mom & Dad are now at home getting to know each other while the cats look on in envy at all attention this little bundle of joy is getting.

With any luck the joker that turned up the thermostat in Seattle today will back it down so we can all get some much needed rest. We'll post more pictures and updates on this website so we don't annoy everybody with our "baby-spam" :)


Vitals:
July 8th 2007 9:23am
7lb 13oz
20 inches