About 4 weeks ago, I wrote a first batch of lessons learned from having Josiah.
It got fairly lenghty, so I stopped at a couple of points, but lately I’ve been thinking about 2008, and what it involved and what we learned, and mostly 2008 was about the pregnancy process for us.
And gosh a good a [...]
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Josiah is now just about 4 weeks old, and as parents of a newborn, here are some things we learned/wish we had known in the past few months:
Babies Are Expensive
When we first seriously considered pregnancy, it seems like the concensus was that a baby costs about $5,000. I can’t think of [...]
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We put a LOT of time and effort into Josiah’s nursery.
I think from beginning to end, it took a couple of months to get everything in place… we thought it would never be done, but I’m glad we put in the time.
At one point, there was about a 3-week stretch where all the furniture for [...]
Well, we finally had one full day home from the hospital (yesterday). Momma and baby are doing great, and Josiah is already on a 3-hour schedule that you could set your watch with!
He’s a little bit jaundiced, so they have us going back and forth to the doctor/hospital until it goes away, but other than [...]
This past Sunday was when our baby was *supposed* to come out… no such luck however :0(
Steph was going stir crazy from being on bed rest, so we went out to the damn and played with the camera.
(These come from the ‘Fall 2008′ album here)
It’s almost that time!
“Full Term” pregnancy is 37 weeks, and we passed that point on Sunday, so our little guy could come any day now!
One of the things our labor and delivery coach encouraged us to do is to use music in the delivery room, and Steph liked the idea. She said you might want [...]
We’ve taken lots and lots of pictures to mark Steph’s progress carrying Baby Riesland, but I think we finally have the photos that we’ll deem our ‘official’ maternity photos. You can see the whole album here.
Second round of pics from our trip to Wrightsville Beach are up.
You can see the whole album here.
Steph and I snuck away to Wrightsville Beach for the weekend to celebrate her birthday. We took a ton of pictures and had a great time. Here is the first batch:
