"Poopsplosion"

The title is pretty self-explanitory.

Let's just say I learned the hard way the importance of being quick while the dirty diaper is off and the clean diaper is on its way.

You'll be happy to know that I've showered and we're all O.K.!

Look who's lookin'!!!

"Milk Drunk"

Okay, I've experienced just about the cutest thing I've ever seen. I had heard before this concept of "milk drunk", that you can tell when your baby has really had enough breastmilk because he/she will act just like a drunk person. Well, Ilana handed Tali over to be swaddled after a feeding just now, and it was like I was dealing with one of my fraternity brothers on a walk home from Cannon's Pub at 4am. Luckily my college experience taught me how to handle such situations :) She looked and acted just like a little mini drunkard! What a cutie! Just thought I'd share :)

What a whirlwind!

Hello all,

Sorry it's been a while with no updates. If you ever were a reader of adamsinclair.com, you know that eventually that got updated once a year. I promise to be better with this one.

So, where to start?

First of all, we thank you all from the bottom of our hearts for the outpouring of wellwishes, love, and presents for little Talia. You, our family and friends, have made this time so much easier for us, and we are deeply appreciative!

This week I returned to school (I am getting my MBA and MRED at USC in the evening program). It was amazing how much I found myself missing Ilana & Talia, wondering how little Tali was doing. Luckily, I can bring up this website from anywhere and at least see photos of our little cutie. One might think that it would be easier to keep up with schoolwork now that I'm not working, but this parenting business takes a lot of time. So, I'm trying to figure out how to balance everything. Nothing new there.

Tali was somewhat jaundiced before we brought her home from the hospital, but she was okay to come home. It was recommended that we expose her skin to daylight for at least an hour a day. We've been trying to do that, but she's still more or less the same amount of yellow as before (it's hard to tell if she's improving or not). So, tomorrow we may take her back to the doctor or try much harder to give her much more light exposure. No need for alarm... it's just something we want to monitor and make sure it doesn't become something dangerous.

Ilana and I have had a couple of good days regarding getting each of us some sleep. We're swaddling Tali somewhat less, and she's sleeping in a "Snuggle Nest" in our bed for now (that's her third sleeping spot since she's been home). Breastfeeding has been going quite well so far, Thank G-d. We have learned that whenever we think we have this figured out, we don't. That's a good lesson, I think.

So again, things are going very well. I posted some more pictures on Snapfish. If you have any problems reading them, please shoot me an email or comment to this message and let me know your email.

We send our love to you all!

:)

Two beauties taking a nap

Taken by Ilana's "Gamu" from his nifty Treo 600 on Talia's first day.

It's a Girl!!! Talia Yardena Sinclair!!!

Hi Everyone!
I guess the title says it all! Tali's 7lbs 10oz, 20.5 inches long, and was born on September 15 at 10:35am. What an incredible beauty! She is perfectly healthy (Thank G-d) and perfectly perfect. Throughout our hospital stay, she had an amazing ability to calm herself (and to be calmed by others). She even slept through a blood test in the nursery with other babies howling all around her!
We're back from the hospital, trying to get used to our new sleep deprived schedules. I seem to be specializing in swaddling (wrapping her tight in a blanket to calm her) and changing dirty diapers. Ilana's specialties are feeding and healing, clearly the much tougher tasks.
The swaddling bit has become a bit of a one-on-one challenge between Talia and myself. You see, if she manages to get one arm free from her bundle, she inevitably gets the other arm free (ala Houdini escaping from a straight jacket), and then she gets all out-of-control of her limbs and starts crying. If I swaddle her just right, though, she doesn't even attempt to escape, and she stays in Slumberland. So far, I think she's winning, but I think I'm getting better. We've taken to calling her "Houdini". It's pretty funny, after I think I've gotten her all locked-in, then the next thing you know there's a hand up at her mouth, and then the tiny fingers of her other hand.
In all, we are on Cloud 9 with our adorable new addition. Sorry it's taken so long to provide an update. Photos to follow!

So, what's up?

Ilana's ready to have the baby out. Today's my birthday. My parents and grandmother are flying in today to be around for the little one. I think we're ready to go. Not much else to report.

On a side note, I guess I have an interesting observation on the world of obstetrics. Every pregnancy book on the market goes in-depth talking about all kinds of different positions in which to give birth, and all kinds of different environments (such as giving birth in a tub of water) that are supposed to make much more sense for the mother and the physics of birthing. Yet, very few obstetricians and hospitals seem to allow for such "radical" procedures. There's a disconnect there that's weird. It's unfortunate, as Ilana's really read up on stuff and some of the things in the books make a lot of sense and appeal to us, but to do those things we'd have to use a midwife which would be an unnecessary risk. I guess some day some "radical" obstetrician and/or hospital will change the whole system.

Happy New Year if you celebrate Rosh Hashana!