You always forget something when you head off to the hospital. For us, it’s a cable to hook our various cameras to a computer. So just imagine an 8 lb, dark-haired baby with round cheeks and a thing for drooling. He has also escaped three of my attempts to swaddle him already.
Born at 6:28 PM local time via emergency C — he tried to come out face first — though Dr. No is recovering nicely.
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Congratulations! Glad to hear all are well (as can be expected). Pictures soon, I hope.
I'll try to act like it's no big thing, but I always knew you wanted to name a latino baby after me...
Posted by: doubleohsoul | June 22, 2010 11:27 AM
Welcome Marco! Good luck with the swaddling and the recovery.
Posted by: plantnerd | June 22, 2010 5:03 PM
Let me be the first to say POLO! Congrats, guys.
Posted by: Flick | June 22, 2010 6:04 PM
Congratulations! See? I stop reading posts here for a while and Mr. Guapo goes and procreates. I really need to keep better tabs on you lot.
Saw a couple of the pix over on Flickr, or I wouldn't have known.
Give my best to Dr. No!
Posted by: The Leash | June 23, 2010 1:08 PM
Yeah, what's up with the swaddling? The boy's a friggin' escape artist. Two minutes go by and he's pinwheeling his arms like Angus Young.
Flick, that's why we're teaching him kung-fu. The joke will be funny. Once.
Also, his middle name is Nord Peludo -- another Latin name that refers to DoubleOh.
Posted by: Mr. Guapo | June 24, 2010 4:03 AM
I recommend velcro-tabbed swaddlers. When you find yourself losing a wrestling match with a 9-lb person at 2:30 am, it's time to put the ego aside.
Alternate strategy if it's not too hot: the double swaddle. Looks like a flannel bowling ball, but is virtually inescapable.
Also, the bat-wing swaddle:
I use a receiving blanket. Fold it in half, diagonally, so you have a triangle, and lay it down on top of your normal swaddling blanket so that the longest edge is even with the folded-down-corner edge of your regular swaddle. Lay your baby down with their neck in the middle of the longest edge, and the tip of the triangle pointing at their butt. Fold the left "wing" over the left arm, then tuck the wing under their butt. Do the same for the right.
Like a straight jacket, for babies.
Posted by: doubleohsoul | June 24, 2010 8:14 PM
wow...i heard stories from Mr. G about how weird the doctors in Hong Kong are when they were in town last spring, but i never thought that they would rely on emergen-c.
Posted by: hellx | June 24, 2010 11:35 PM
congrats he is lovely.
Posted by: jebus4me | July 3, 2010 9:25 AM
I guess I haven't checked in at Norlos in a while. Yikes!
Congratulations!
I agree with OO, though - the double swaddle is the hardest for the kid to break out of. Sometimes you can pick materials that will make things easier: flannel clothes plus flannel swaddle = really hard to drag one against the other. Of course, the kid can always just bust an arm loose from his PJs, that's what mine did.
Posted by: Thinman | July 14, 2010 2:33 PM