We swaddle Emma everytime she goes to sleep. And we are very careful about placing her in her bassinet. But I swear that short of breaking out the duct tape, I can't get her to keep her arms in her blanket. This is a very common Emma pose.

We went to the doctor today for Emma's post hospital follow up. It looks like the little bit of jaundice she had when she was discharged is resolving itself. She is also gaining weight (yay!) which was worrying her dad as she was born at 7lbs 14oz and had dropped down to 7lbs 3.5oz. She is now back up to 7lbs 80z. Her mom wasn't worried, as her mom was intimately familiar with nutrition throughput. The doctor was very nice, thank you to Rich and Jen for the referral. We are adjusting to life as parents, though I we both still have plenty of awestruck moments when we look at our beautiful daughter. Speaking of, here are more pictures.

Emma at just a few minutes old. And her mom with tears of joy and dad trying not to look too overwhelmed.

Emma and Gramma at the hospital (my mom).

Emma at four days, deciding whether she wants to be asleep or awake. She went for awake in the end, but was pretty indecisive for a few minutes.

We've officially been parents for more than 24 hours now. It is still very surreal for me. I love my daughter with an overwhelming passion, considering I have only known her for a day. I know that all new parents must go through this and have these feelings and I am certainly not the first, but they are new feelilngs to me. Here is a picture of Emma with her Grandpa (my dad).

Emma has arrived. She was born today at 1:42pm. She has shown herself to be just as active out of the womb as she was in the womb. Emma Lauren weighed in at 7 pounds 14 ounces, she is just under 19 inches long and looks absolutely perfect in the eyes of her parents.

Well, as we said in our London blog www.imcrossingthepond.blogspot.com we thought that moving to London would be the biggest adventure of our lives. We were wrong, we are about to embark on a much bigger adventure, parenthood. Here is the first picture of our wonderful daughter, Emma which was taken September 21st. More to follow when she makes her first appearance.