Saturday Morning with the Maloneys
Spent a marvelous Saturday morning with some dear friends of mine. I knew Bob and Ann before they were married and watched as they met, courted and finally got married. They asked me to take some shots of them and the two girls the adopted and I simply couldn’t say no.
A Special Visit and a Loud Holler!
Happy 10-10-10 people! Julia’s actual due date (the day before) came and went with little fanfare, and she is continuing to feed and grow well, albeit a little slowly. We are hoping that now that her feeding schedule has turned to a more on-demand cadence, her weight gain will be more robust. We are also […]
Homegoing
It amazes me that a child that was watched and nurtured by a team of highly trained health professionals has now been entrusted to a clueless white guy. It’s probably mitigated by the fact that he has a very attentive wife and a registered nurse mother-in-law with 40+ years’ experience in his corner. Yeah, that’s […]
Goin’ to School and Getting a Surprise
Julia’s just over a week old and she’s already going to school. Grandma Nancy is a fantastic addition to the support system that has been surrounding our family. A nurse with 48 years’ experience, she has not taken the easy road into retirement. She is on the faculty at the School of Nursing at Texas […]
Logan
A quick photo session for a brave little guy.
Grandma Nancy’s in Town
8:15 pm: Nancy Sue Torian-Goodman, mother of my wife Jocelyn and grandmother of my daughter Julia, landed on the fifth floor of the South Tower at William Beaumont Hospital – Royal Oak. Words cannot describe how everything feels like it’s coming together. For the first time in over a week, I have seen my wife […]
Calories & Volume (and a big girl bed!)
Sorry for the lateness of this update. I’ve been choosing sleep over creativity lately; but I did want to give you a thumbnail sketch of the goings on over the last couple of days. The good news is that although Julia’s platelets are still an issue, the consensus seems to be that it is a […]
One at the NICU and One at Home
Big day yesterday for the Cook family. My wife came home – here’s a pic of her feeling the sun on her face for the first time in four days. She had her incision staples (yes, staples) removed early Friday morning. There was a little apprehension on both our parts, thinking that it would be […]
Blue Light Special on Babies at Beaumont Hospital
Okay – a lot of you parents who had jaundiced kids do light therapy are rolling your eyes at the cheap play on words right now. Do me a solid, here, people. I’ve had maybe ten good hours’ sleep in the last 72. I’m running a little low on the repartee and am basically down […]
Hurricane Julia – and yes, the promised pictures.
Although remnants of the hurricane of the same name are breaking up in the mid-Atlantic, Hurricane Julia Paige Cook hit William Beaumont Hospital at 6:06pm last night as a Category 5 baby. And the day started so… normally. We had had a relatively quiet weekend (well, Jocelyn was on her modified bed rest, and I […]