Luke Palmer, Day 1

Here's a picture of Luke shortly after birth. He is fairly stable, breathing 1/2 on his own, 1/2 on the ventilator. He's on an IV helping give him fluids. Over the next week, doctors will be busy checking him out from head to toe and checking regularly on his heart to see if the enlarged right side shrinks down on its own. There could be other yet to be discovered complications, but the heart remains our primary prayer. As for the extra digit on each hand, that appears to be a fairly easy fix, but a low priority at this point.

Hillary is already up and running around, hardly acting like a woman who gave birth less than 12 hours ago. I on the other hand no longer have to pretend to be strong and have taken to ugly sobbing on a regular basis. Sometimes Hill joins me, but they're not really tears of sadness, just good ol' emotional breakdowns brought on by exhaustion and relief that we got the kid into the world as best we could and now we just have to wait and see. Hopefully Hillary will never again accuse me of not sharing my emotions.