[AdrienneG]

Baby Jonathan Lansing was born on his due date of December 6, 2005 after an intense birth (and I mean intense! she was 3cm when i met her at the hospital and went to 8cm in thirty minutes!) And he has the same last name as my husband and myself, at the insistence of the pbirth mom.

7lbs 3.5 ounces and 20 inches long and cute as can be!

Both of his grandmothers were present for the birth, along with his pbmom's best friend, and myself. I was surprised when after he popped out, everyone in the room shouted "Adrienne, you have to cut the cord!" (I wasn't expecting to be asked to!) And cut the cord I did.

He grew 1 inch hours after his birth and at 3 days of age he now is 7 and a half pounds and already turns his head to look around the room when I am burping him. He looks me in my face studying my face and calms down when he hears my voice when he is crying.

The nurses have been wonderful in teaching me how to care for him, and I have been doing his feedings and diaper changes in the nursery as often as possible, and caring for his pbmom in her hospital room. She was released yesterday after her high blood pressure went down. Baby Jonathan is still in the nursery having phototherapy due to his bilirubin.

The nurses taught me how to feed and burp him, and this particular nurse's aide name Shawanda (bless her heart!) taught me an excellent way to hold him to feed and burp him, because Jonathan tends to fall asleep as soon as he is in my arm or in his blanket. So I unwrap him, support his shoulders and chin with my hand and have him sitting in my lap to burp him, and then feedings are done with my supporting his head, neck and shoulders and feeding him sitting up on my lap. He is a vigorous feeder as long as he's not in my arms, otherwise he falls asleep mid-feed. LOL

I am just thrilled and my husband is on his way to town to see him in 6 days. Everything is progressing very well in getting the ICPC. The pbmom held him after his birth and I took photos as this is what she asked for before his birth, and I was happy to do that.

She went into labor the day after she had 2 helpings of my mother's potato salad.

I will keep you guys updated on how things have been. If I can figure out how to post a photo, I'll post Jonathan's photo here. He looks a lot like his first cousin who is my second cousin, but he also looks like himself, wonderfully made!