December 14, 2008

• I’M A GRANDMA!

  Thursday, December 11, 2008 was a major day in my family’s life.  At 7:07 p.m., NDM arrived, weighing 6 pounds, 0.6 ounces and stretching a whole 19 inches long.

  Iltflinthills and IMO do not want any photographs of the new baby posted on the Internet, so devoted readers will just have to imagine how beautiful my grandson is with his definitively brown eyes and oodles of black hair.  The entire family agrees that NDM is just wonderful.

  Mother and baby are doing fine now, but they and Father are quite tired.  Iltflinthills had an extra painful labor because it was induced; I think she was quite wise to save her strength for the end by finally agreeing to an epidural.  About two hours after NDM’s birth, Iltflinthills began bleeding severely.  After several anxious hours, the hospital staff finally controlled the bleeding, but none of her family slept much that first night.  In fact, I ended up spending the night at the hospital because I just could not leave until I knew for sure she was going to be all right.

  Yesterday the new family returned home.  Iltflinthills and IMO found out how long it takes to do even simple travel with a newborn.  Now they are trying to manage without much sleep.

  I am trying to help them out for the next couple of weeks by fixing them their main meal of the day.  When Marisol was born, people in our church brought us dinner every night for two weeks and THAT was the best baby gift ever as far as I am concerned.

  After church today, I cooked dinner at the baby’s house.  Iltflinthills, IMO, IMO’s father, Marisol, Tremor3258, and I all enjoyed being together.  The Professor missed this Sunday’s meal because he was one of the chaperones at a church youth group lock-in last night; consequently, he really, really needed to return home at noontime to get some sleep.

  It is truly amazing how long adults can just stare at a sleeping newborn. 

  I love having a grandson.

  • 10:38 pm
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