OK, so I’m pretty late on posting this - Howard Antares Nugent was born on May 28. (I posted last month about my two months on bed rest.) He was three weeks early, and it turned out that his lungs were not quite mature, so he spent a week in the hospital learning to breathe and then to eat before he came home. I have to say that that week put all of my own hospital time into perspective - it was much, much worse than being in the hospital myself. I spent the hour before my 40th birthday watching four nurses attempt eight times (total, not each) to get an IV into him before they gave up and called the doctor to see if he would authorize not placing one (he did).
But he is now fat and happy. His big sister still adores him, although the awful truth about no longer being the sole center of attention is starting to sink in.
Congratulations! Glad that everything has turned out well for you and baby Howard!
Wonderful pictures! Glad to hear he’s doing so well. Congratulations!
My poor niece took quite a while to get over the part where she was no longer the center of the universe. She and her brother are very close now, even though there are 4 years between them. (He’ll be 10 in October.)
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Awww, what a nice pair of kids you’ve got there! I don’t remember having any big problems with not being the center of attention when my little brother was born, though I was just barely eight – your daughter looks like she’s at least a couple of years younger. We get along great now, or at least we do if he’ll ever call me. Grrrrr. Little brothers are never not at least a bit annoying, no matter how old they get. But they can be awesome.
Congratulations!
Glad you’re both doing well. Here is some unasked for advice re the older sib:
I was told to never say, “I can’t do X because I’m holding the baby.” I was told (by who I can’t recall) to say, " I can’t do X; my hands are full (or busy)"
No idea if that is what did the trick, but Daughter and #1 son remain close–and they’re 18 and 16. (I also read to her when he was asleep etc).
You’re going to be very busy, very soon! But it’s a nice kind of busy. 
Yes, I’ve been trying to do that, and similar stuff. We’ve had three grandparents in residence recently - my mother went home today, but my husband’s parents are still here. So she’s still getting lots of attention. We’ll see what happens in two weeks when it’s just us. She’s still going to daycare four days a week, which I think is a help for both of us. She has one big part of her life that hasn’t changed at all, and I have some days when I can actually follow the advice of “sleep when the baby sleeps.”
She’s four, by the way. Her name is Dorothy Maia - both of our kids have a less-popular “old-fashioned” first name, and a middle name after a star (hers is one of the Pleiades; his is in Scorpius).
It’s definitely harder this time around, although it’s also less stressful in some ways, since I basically understand what I’m doing a bit better.
Congratulations on a beautiful baby!