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Well it has been 3 weeks since our little boy was born.  It has gone by so fast and so slow at the same time.  The transition has been going fairly smooth.  We did have a few hiccups to deal with however.   Almost as soon as he was released from the hospital we noticed some boils under his chin and armpits.  We thought it was just baby acne and casually mentioned it to the doctor.  The doctor seemed a bit alarmed but we were not sure why.  They ran a culture of the sores and 3 days later we learned that he had MRSA, the antibiotic resistant strain of staph, the one the news media is calling the "Super Bug".   Luckily he never developed any other symptoms such as a fever and began taking a medicine that quickly cleared it up.  I think we really dodged a bullet there.   During this same time our daughter who is very prone to lung congestion contracted a cold that went straight to her lungs and caused a fever off and on for 5 or 6 days with a nasty cough to top it off.  We thought she may have gotten pneumonia, but luckily that turned out to not be the case and she too is feeling much better.  Those illnesses did not make our transition very easy at first and was very stressful for my wife and me.

But on the upside our little boy is putting on weight quickly and never seems to want to stop eating.  He has a great temperament and we have been getting about double the sleep every night we did when his sister was this age, but that only means 4 hours instead of 2, but we will take anything at this point.  Our daughter likes the new baby and is very gentle with her new brother but on the same note she does not like the attention that we give him instead of her.  At least she recognizes that and throws her temper tantrums at us instead of her brother.  This week has gone much better now that they are both on the mend and so hopefully we can keep it that way. -D-