Landon - 33 hours old

Early yesterday morning (2010.11.03) our fraternal twin great-grandsons arrived in great style.

Here is Landon, 33 hours old:


He is very alert, and follows moving figures intently. However, his far point is likely only about 15 inches, so I would have been severely OOF.

The parents are both doing fine:


Carla enjoys her role as great-grandmother (this is not the first time, though - these guys are numbers 4 and 5 if we limit ourselves to solid and heavy-dotted lines on the family tree):


Landon's older (by 12 minutes) brother, Ashton, was at the time in the nursery taking in some blue rays to ameliorate neonatal icterus (newborn jaundice).

All the above were shot with my Canon PowerShot SX110 IS, using the on-camera flash unit.

A first cousin to these guys is expected early in December.

Best regards,

Doug

Congrats to Landon, his parents and the two of you, Doug and Carla! Anyone who has you both on their side is in for good fortune, great advice and generous feeding!

Asher

I don't know about you (since you're not on the pictures) but I've never seen a grand-grand-mother looking so young, congrats for that too!

Carla, Doug and family....Congrats and best wishes.

Hi, Sandrine,

Sandrine Bascouert said:

I don't know about you (since you're not on the pictures) but I've never seen a grand-grand-mother looking so young, congrats for that too!

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Thanks. She is a beautiful, bright, capable, and fun woman. I am so lucky to have her in my life.

By the way, she is 72.

Best regards,

Doug

Hi Doug,

Congratulations to you and Carla on the recent additions to your growing family. I'm sure they will bring great joy to all concerned.

Regards,

Stuart

Hi, All,

Thanks so much for your good wishes.

We learned today that the older twin, Ashton, has had his jaundice problem (excess of bilirubin) relieved with phototherapy (immersion in visible light in the 420-470 nm wavelength range), and the whole gang is expected to go to the house (as we say here in Texas*) tomorrow.

Hopefully he will be ready to join his younger brother in a serious paparazzoid onslaught.

In the meantime, we'll take a look at this picture of the Olympic Bili-Lite, a popular phototherapy unit.


The light causes the body to convert the bilirubin from one isomeric form to another, one that will be more readily excreted. (In newborns, especially short-term, the body's mechanism for doing this may not be perfected, and in fact shortly later in life, the bilirubin that is generated is of the other form anyway.)

Best regards,

Doug

(immersion in visible light in the 420-470 nm wavelength range)

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again! will you ever stop?

Hi, Sandrine,

Sandrine Bascouert said:

again! will you ever stop?

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Well, I plan to go to bed tonight by about 11:30, and stop thinking about these things a little while after that.

Best regards,

Doug