Thursday, April 12, 2007

Welcome to the World, Baby L!

Lyrehca and Mister Lyrehca are thrilled to annouce the birth of their new son, Baby L.

Baby L arrived at 11:24 am on Monday, April 9, 2007. He weighed seven pounds, nine ounces, and was 20.5 inches long. He is super gorgeous--all the nurses and doctors here keep saying so (and admit, when I ask, that they don't say that about everyone's baby).

His post-pregnancy blood sugars, an indication of Mom's blood sugars, were in the 60s that day. Anything considered low for a baby is under 40. Mom was thrilled that his blood sugars were normal. (Mom's blood sugars were in the 80s and 90s throughout the procedure, and she felt relatively good after having a c-section. Two days later, she's rocking the painkillers as needed, and still feeling relatively good.)

Baby L is super cute, is sort of getting the hang of breast feeding, and sleeps a bunch (for now).

We're headed home from the hospital on Friday. No idea when I'll have more time to write, but just wanted to update things. Thanks to everyone for all your good wishes, and I'll update when I can.

38 comments:

If not a mother... said...

Yay! Congrats!!!

Erica said...

Congratulations!! I can't wait to see pictures.

So glad things went smoothly.

caren said...

FANTASTIC!!!

Great job, Mom!

Caren

Michko said...

Woo hoo! Welcome Baby L!

Shannon said...

It sounds like the baby is perfect and the birth worked out perfectly.

All of your wonderful, motherly, diligent hard work paid off!

Baby is lucky to have you for a momma :)

Kerri. said...

CONGRATULATIONS!!! Welcome to the world, Baby L.

I am so happy for you all!

Jane said...

Three cheers to the three of you. Awesome news. Congratulations.

Anonymous said...

Congratulations on your new baby!

Samantha said...

Yay! Welcome to the world Baby L!

Christine said...

Congrats! I'm so glad to hear everything went well. I'm so happy for you and Mr. L.

Val said...

Congrats and welcome Baby L!

Kevin said...

That's awesome.
Congratulations to you and the mister.

Ottoette said...

OH, Congratulations! Such heartfelt, mega-congratulations! Welcome to the world, Baby L!

Minnesota Nice said...

Oh my. All my best, each and every day.

Major Bedhead said...

Yay!! Welcome to the world, baby L. And goodbye to sleep, mama and daddy L. ;-)

I can't wait to see pictures.

Kelsey said...

Congratulations!!

Welcome to the world Little One!

Nicole P said...

Congratulations - and welcome to the world outside of your other planet, Baby L...

:)

Woohoo! Go Babies!

Flmgodog said...

Mazel Tov to you Lyrecha dn Mister Lyrecha on Baby L!!!!!
I am glad you all made it through and everything went well.
Can't wait to see pictures.

Laurie said...

So happy to hear baby and mother are doing so well!! Congratulations!!!!!

asskeeper said...

Congratulations!!!! Welcome to the world Baby L!!!

Fred (Nic) said...

How fabulous!!!!! Congrats!

Chrissie in Belgium said...

You should see the HUGE smile on my face! I am so happy for you! CONGRATLATIONS!!!!!!!!!

justme said...

Congrats! Welcome to the world baby L!!

Anonymous said...

Congratulations!

Welcome to motherhood, Lyrehca. It's a whole new world.

Serenity said...

WOO HOO!!! I can move you over to the "parent" blogroll!

So happy to hear this. Congratulations!

Annie said...

Yippee!!! Wlecome to the world, Baby L!

Scott S said...

Congratulations!!

Penny Ratzlaff said...

Woo hoo, baby!!!!!

Congrats to you both.

Dr. Grumbles said...

CONGRATULATIONS!!! yay for good numbers!

Watson said...

Much congratulations to Lyrehca and Mister Lyrehca and welcome to Baby L!!

Can't wait to hear more and, of course, see tons of pictures!

xoxo

Maura said...

I'll add my congratulations too!
Great news!

Scott K. Johnson said...

Congratulations!!!

You have done a LOT of HARD work for this - way to go!

Jamie said...

Congrats on your new son!!! I'm glad that everything went so well :)

I hope you're resting when baby does.

You did a great job - congrats and welcome to Motherhood!

Anil said...

Congratulations. It is wonderful to be part of this journey.

LORI said...

Congratulations!! Glad to hear everything went so well. :)

Rachel Inbar said...

Congratulations!!!

Michelle said...

Congratuations! Do hope a picture may be forthcoming . . .

Bernard said...

Congratulations and sorry I missed this due to vacation.

I'm so glad it all went well. Good for you Mom.