Things I've learned in the last two weeks...

1) Doctors and nurses who work in Neonatal Intensive Care Units are the most patient people scurrying about this mortal coil.
2) Grandmas won't let Daddies hold their babies. Daddies must pry them from Grandma's kung-fu grip.
3) Establishing a schedule to see your kid in the hospital is simultaneously comforting and infuriating.
4) When doctors say call anytime, they mean it.
5) The sounds babies make during the day are beautiful. The same sounds are terrifying in the middle of the night.
6) Bringing your kid home after he has spent nine days in the hospital is so totally rad.

A new arrival

I'm very happy to report that Steph and I are the proud new parents of Sebastian Fiorelli Koehler, born on June 10th at 12:51pm, weighing in at 7 lbs and 11 ounces. He's had a rough start of it so far: he was born two weeks premature and had under-developed lungs, but has since shown significant progress and is doing nicely in the Neonatal ICU at St. Mary's here in Madison. We've been in and out of the hospital all week and are very anxious to bring him home, hopefully early next week.