Homecoming

We finally got home on Saturday afternoon (Jan. 27) after an extended hospital stay. Everyone is in very good shape all things considered. Freddy might disagree with that assessment post-circumcision, but he can't talk so we're going to go ahead and say he's doing great! He's eating and sleeping like a champ, and dirtying diapers at an alarming rate. In addition to Frederick's homecoming, Saturday was also John's birthday, and Freddy responded by filling extra diapers in Dad's honor. We think there may have been 31 ounces of poop in one of them. What a thoughtful kid.

I'm not saying he's going to play hoops at Chapel Hill, I'm just saying that on his first night home from the hospital UNC whipped Arizona on the road. You can't argue with that kind of result.

You can't sleep on the Tarheels!!

Happy Birthday Freddy!

After only 41 weeks and 41 hours of labor . . .
Frederick Riggs Duberstein was born 9 days after his due date on January 25th, 2007 at 7:17 am. He had a long hard road to get here, starting on Tuesday afternoon of the 23rd, but he was well worth the wait. We arrived at the hospital about 3pm for an ultrasound and they admitted us because the fluid levels in the amniotic sac were very low. Nina started on pitocin that afternoon, but they backed off to let her sleep from about midnight to six (thank goodness!!).

On Wednesday morning things got started again, but progressed very slowly. Nina and little Freddy worked all through the night, and 41 hours after admittance, an epidural, 4 hours of pushing, and a vacuum extraction later, they were both resting comfortably. We are so grateful to our tireless midwives, our amazing doula Wendy, and the knockout nursing staff at UNC without whom the Freddy's birth would have gone VERY differently.

We could not be more in love with our son. Thanks to everyone for all of the love and support we've been given.

Now it's time for some serious digital picture-taking!