There's our little darling when he was just born. This shot was taken by daddy using his mobile phone after the nurses did the apgar tests and brought him back to the delivery room. Guess daddy was too overwhelmed to remember using the camera.
When I finally moved from the delivery suite to the wards, the nurses brought Zylan back to us. Here's daddy cuddling Zylan in his arms.
Here's a close up of Zylan - he was cleaned and changed. He looks rather refreshed even tho asleep.
Zylan stayed with me that night, until about 6am when I pushed him back to the nursery. I came back to rest for awhile just before Dr Raman came to check on me. I was just waiting to hear him tell me 'You can go home today' :-)
The nurse pushed Zylan into my room about 9am. He was bathed and changed, and had a terribly sad looking expression. I felt that his eyes were like screaming at me trying to tell me that he just got out of being tortured by the nurses at the nursery. In an instant my eyes began to water, and I felt really guilty for leaving him with them. Clearly, motherhood emotions kicking in.
The day I was discharged Dr Eric told us that Zylan looked rather yellow so we had to wait for the blood test to see if he needed to stay for phototherapy sessions.
There I was sitting waiting for Zylan's report - looking determined to bring him home? :-p
Thankfully the report came out alright, but we had to make sure we sun him the next couple of days at home to bring the yellow-ness down.
See how tiny he looked in the infant car seat. All set to go home :-)
