Category: Crayon

Its the end of the day, and dad and mum are pretty tired but Kahurangi is still wide awake

Hes been pretty good today, a few grizzles but once he’s feed and changed hes happy to go back to sleep.

Between, “Honey we are killing the kids” on tv, the article in the womans day magazine Laurel got in hospital titled “Are you killing your children?” and the nurses list of 50 million don’ts, I’m suprised anyone in the world manages to live past the age of 2.
Apparently pretty much everything will kill your baby including all the things they told you last week were good for your baby. There’s an entire doctoral study in the contradictorial information you have forced upon you when you become a parent. And another thesis on why people think it’s even remotely their business to tell you what to do.

Some of the gems we have discovered today are

• Swaddling is out, free hands are in
• Slings will kill your baby by compressing its neck (apparently every single person in africa and 90% of asia is wrong)
• Car seat head stabilisers will kill your baby, resurrect it, and kill it again
• Holding your baby upright will kill it, and your cat, and your dogs, and your neighbours grandchild
• Polyester is as bad as putting your baby in the microwave on high
• Looking at your baby will cause it to go blind
• Not looking at your baby will cause it to go blind

Luckily we have our friends, parents, ante natal class and lovely midwife to reassure us that its not that scary really.

Well he’s all discharged from the neo natal unit and is now home with us. Ill update the gallery later on today with some more photos.

Laurel and I spent the night together with Kahurangi last night, and at his weigh in this morning he had gained 36gm. So they are doing some final tests and barring anything showing up, he should be coming home after his next feed.
And then as Bob says “The fun begins”

Kahurangi is now feeding fully from the breast, with no top-ups anymore, so the feeding tube has come out. Which means all things going well he will be coming home in the next day or so.

Laurel asked me to put a little pronounciation guide for saying Kahurangi, (and Kahu for short) so here goes.
Kah hoo rahn gee (‘g’ as in gas, rather than as in george)
Kahu sounds like wahoo (excited yell)
Rangi close to rung (as in ladder) ee

Thats trying to do it for an american accent 🙂

From the H. W. Williams dictionary
Kahurangi

• Honourable, distinguished. Taku tira kahurangi ka makere i a au
• Prized, precious He iti kahurangi
• A light coloured variety of greenstone
• Treasured possession, jewel, darling Ka haere te wahine ki te whai i tana kahurangi
• Cheiftainess

Kahu

• Surface Te Kahu o te rangi The blue sky
• Garment
• Young shoot, sprout
• Germinate, grow, sprout Kua kahu te witi

Kāhu

• Hawk, harrier
• Chief
• Kite – for flying

Kahurangi is doing good, he had his first bath today, and successfully fed from a bottle too. So he is breastfeeding and bottle feeding, so the feeding tube should be able to be taken out soon, yay!

Kahurangi is still down in the neo natal unit, but he’s doing fine. He managed to feed from the breast for all the feeds today. So he should be able to come upstairs in the next day or two. Laurel is doing good too, shes walking around freely and getting enough sleep.

Kahurangi James Lee Barr Cormack, made an early arrival at 2.55pm today (20/11/06) NZ time. He weighed in at 3.040kg, which is pretty darn good for 36 weeks. He’s doing fine, hes down in the neo-natal unit but has successfully managed to breastfeed. Mum is fine too, in fact they are both sleeping which is why I could sneak out and update the blog and get some sleep myself.

Not sure how long they’ll be at the hospital, probably 2 or 3 days, until they are sure everything is fine.

Laurel’s waters broke at about 1.30am on the 20th .. so we rang the obstetrician who told us to head in to the delivery suites. We got there about 2am ish, and after monitoring for a while went upstairs to the ward. By 8am laurel had dilated to 5cm’s so it was back down to the delivery suites we went.
And by 2pm she was fully dilated, and by 2.55pm Kahurangi was born. I think we are both still in a slight state of shock, we thought we had a month to go. I blame the xmas parade yesterday, I reckon he got confused, thought it was xmas and thought crap im late, im getting out.

Anyway photos to come when Ive had some sleep.

Update

Kahurangi shows what he thinks of the feeding tube. He yanked it out and made this sign when the nurse said she was going to put it back in.

More photos here

Just over a month to go until Crayon is scheduled to arrive. If he’s like his dad, he will be exactly on time, if he’s like his mum, he will be fashionably late.