Welcome Toby

Well, it seems that baby number two had no intention of missing the fun of Easter by waiting until the 25th to make an appearance. On Thursday morning (20th) at 3:45 my waters broke and we headed to the hospital later that morning. So much for getting our Costco shop done! Nothing much was happening so after talking to the consultant, we were scheduled for a c-section after lunch.

Everything went to plan and at exactly 2:30pm Toby Makepeace was born. He weighed in at a whopping 8lbs 7ozs and was 21.25 inches long. Probably a good job he didn't wait much longer, I don't think my belly could have coped with much bigger!

Later that afternoon Steve went and got Beth so she could meet her little brother. I'm not sure how impressed she was with him - he hasn't learned any tricks yet so isn't particularly interesting to her! She stayed long enough to poke and prod him out of his slumber before heading back home, probably hoping that he was not going to be a permanent fixture (sorry Beth . . . ).

Today we got discharged from the hospital and headed home just after lunch. Again Beth was curious but not overly impressed with Toby. I suppose she isn't sure quite what his role is and if he is staying. I can say with certainty the feelings of the cat - she is totally unimpressed and probably wondering how she found herself here with a toddler, a baby and cold weather rather than in sunny Long Beach.

At the moment we are trying to teach Toby the difference between night and day as he feels that hourly feedings between 9pm and 6am are called for with the day reserved for sleep. Hopefully that will change very soon as I'm not particularly pleasant without sleep and Steve appears to be even less! ;)