Settling In

5 hours of sleep a night, 10 diapers a day, 0 trips farther than 5 miles from home. That's what I call a routine!

Things have improved a lot in this second week of Emmett's life. He is on a (semi)regular feeding schedule and sleeps fairly well (last night being a glaring exception). This has allowed us to take longer and longer excursions. Yesterday, we took a long walk through the Mission district and had lunch out. Unimaginable a week ago...

Today we're going to try to go to Golden Gate Park for a picnic. Wish us luck.

Photos From the First Week

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Emmett Willa Davitian

Born September 13, 2008 at 10:52am
6 lb 14 oz
20 inches long

Mom and baby are doing great.

From Emmett's First Week

Family Guy?

While on epidural, Melissa is watching and enjoying the Family Guy. This is a new development...

To the Hospital

Well, we're on our way folks...

Melissa's water started leaking last night around dinnertime and we headed over to UCSF around midnight. We arrived early enough to get one of the rooms with a view... although I'm not sure Melissa is fully appreciating it :)

Melissa is laboring like a champ. Hopefully, we'll wrap up tonight.

I'm Lonely

Why did Melissa and Colin throw me outside the house? Don 't they understand by now that I decide when I come and when I go?

And where did they go? They sure did pack up and leave quickly. Maybe they saw Rover, the terrier over on Dolores street. That's what I do when I see Rover.

39 Weeks

Things are starting to get a bit exciting around here! Throughout the day on Monday I felt lots of Braxton-Hicks (warm-up) contractions. Then, on and off throughout the past few days, I've felt some mild period-like cramps. Nothing painful or regular yet though. True labor could begin just a few hours/days from now or could still be another week or two away. Your guess is as good as mine! Topped the scale at 150 lbs today...I must be having a 12 pound baby!

From Baby Center this week:

Your baby's waiting to greet the world! He continues to build a layer of fat to help control his body temperature after birth, but it's likely he already measures about 20 inches and weighs a bit over 7 pounds, a mini watermelon. (Boys tend to be slightly heavier than girls.) The outer layers of his skin are sloughing off as new skin forms underneath.

38 Weeks

When will our boy make his debut? Each night when I'm feeling particularly enormous and exhausted I cross my fingers that "tomorrow" will be the day...then I wake up in the morning, feel refreshed and am thankful to have another day to take care of things around the house and office.

Went to a prenatal yoga class yesterday and for the first time I was the "most pregnant" gal in the room. I was also by far the least energetic. But, the exercise felt great - my body felt extra limber last night and this morning...then, suddenly this afternoon I developed an odd muscle pain in my upper left leg. Oy vey! Now I'm hobbling around like an old woman. Hopefully this is just an overstretched muscle that will heal in 24 hrs...

From Baby Center this week:

How your baby's growing:
Your baby has really plumped up. She weighs about 6.8 pounds and she's over 19 1/2 inches long (like a leek). She has a firm grasp, which you'll soon be able to test when you hold her hand for the first time! Her organs have matured and are ready for life outside the womb.

Wondering what color your baby's eyes will be? You may not be able to tell right away. If she's born with brown eyes, they'll likely stay brown. If she's born with steel gray or dark blue eyes, they may stay gray or blue or turn green, hazel, or brown by the time she's 9 months old. That's because a child's irises (the colored part of the eye) may gain more pigment in the months after she's born, but they usually won't get "lighter" or more blue. (Green, hazel, and brown eyes have more pigment than gray or blue eyes.)