Let's Try this Again...

We're home again! After a really traumatic night on Sunday (probably more for Lauren and Zach than for Jacob, but he seemed pretty out-of-sorts), Jacob had a largely uneventful stay back at the hospital. His fever crept back up once over 101, but then quickly dropped down. The rest of the time, his temperature hovered around 99. All of the blood cultures and spinal fluid and such were negative. They basically think he was a little dehydrated, which in turn let whatever bug he caught take hold.

We've had some interesting struggles with how to deal with whether or not to breastfeed - more specifically, is it something that is going to be possible for us to exclusively rely on, or will we be supplementing his feeding with a bottle? We're going to be working on this for the next couple weeks, probably supplementing until we can get him to the point where he's getting enough nutrition directly from Mommy. If this doesn't happen, then on to the bottle. Either way, we're obviously on the right page by putting whatever is going to be best for Jacob first. Nevertheless, it's been an interesting development that we weren't completely prepared for. I guess that's parenthood in a nutshell, right?

We brought him home this morning and at the moment, he and mommy are taking a little snooze between feedings. He really is the cutest thing ever, and his mother and I are filled with love for the little guy. We can't wait for everyone to meet him, though if you live in the area, it may be a few days yet. We've decided to go into a little bit of lockdown-mode, at least until we can get him a little bigger and healthier. It's nothing personal against anyone, but we need him to be healthy so he will be in peak form when he meets all his NYC friends and family.

Thanks again for the well wishes, and here's another fix of photos...