Kendra mere minutes before delivering Weston. Needless to say she wasn't happy with me taking this picture. Take notice there are no stirrups and nothing but an IV for hydration.
Kendra getting to hold Weston after he had his 5 minute check-out by the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) staff immediately after birth.
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I followed Weston up to the NICU and watched as he was setup for monitoring and received an IV for nurishment.
Kendra is a superhero and was up and walking to visit Weston mere hours after giving birth.
Kendra was hooked up to an IV and given a liter of Petocin after birth. We spent Tuesday and Wednesday night in the hospital room and visited Weston when we could.
Weston was very active when we went and visited him. He does possess the instinct to close his hands around a finger, which is reassuring and fun. He has a full head of hair (lucky!) and even has sideburns. He also has lanugo, a very fine hair, covering most of his body which should go away in a couple of weeks. The red spot you see on his chest in the second picture is from a temperature sensor that was removed right before the picture. He has since returned to a uniform color.
I got to hold Weston some during the days we were at the hospital. In the picture below you can see an example of "Kangaroo Care." This is a type of therapy for both baby and parents where Weston is in nothing but a diaper (still connected to the IV and monitors) and is placed directly on the bare-skinned chest of Kendra or I. Then we wrap Weston in blankets to keep the body heat in. This allows Weston to connect with us and provides him an opportunity to get into deep sleep, or active sleep phase, where he will do the most growing. We didn't feel that taking a picture of Kendra doing Kangaroo-care would be appropriate for a website such as this.
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