The Family!
These are a few snaps of us. Most are pretty recent. We weren't a shutterbug couple but now that Chris is here, we're practically snapping 24/7.

This is Christopher Allen Plessinger. This was taken while Chris was in the Neonatal ICU at Miami Valley Hospital. He had a little trouble shaking off Liz's high insulin dosage (like all babies of diabetic moms) and had to be on a glucose drip for a while.

This is the proud papa visiting Chris in the NICU. Note the big ol' cheesy grin and the advancing bald spot.

This is the happy family in the NICU. This was the third time Liz had held Chris since his birth.

The Chris Burritto!

Our first feeding. Babies of diabetic moms tend to have blood sugar problems soon after birth. Chris held out for five hours in Transition Nursing while I fed him formula at intervals so we could check how he was doing. For a while he did very well, with sugars in the 40's. Just before hour five we got a reading of 10, way too low. It was off to the NICU for a glucose IV.

Chris' first meeting with Grammie Sharon. "The Kissing Grandmother" as another nephew has termed her.

Chris' first meeting with Grampie Dennis. Will there be a pair of baby deerskin moccasins under the Christmas tree?

This is Loma, the RN in Transition Nursing who took care of Chris during his first few hours. She showed me how to feed, change and care for Chris. She was also a hawk about the security bracelets. Every time I left the room and came back, she made sure to check my ID bracelet against Chris' before I was let in. I was impressed, to say the least, with the MVH security.

This was taken about noon, just after Liz got out of surgery and was waking up from the anesthesia (you can still see the pulse oximeter on her finger). This was the first time she had gotten to hold Chris. She only got to hold him for ten minutes before he had to go back to the nursery for more blood sugar tests.