Jesse Hraban

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Jessaleigh had her first Dr. appointment today. She had the usual physical, plus we had the Dr. look at her right eye. She has had a blocked tear duct since birth and I think it got infected (which is pretty common.) Poor goopy eyed baby. So we now have some fun eye ointment and an appointment to go back for a 2 month check up! Other than the eye issues, Dr. Joseph said she is a very health and strong girl.

Weight in: 9lbs 12oz

On a surprising note – Kaiser and Dr. Joseph in particular were actually very cool about the whole home birth thing. Scott had to tell them 3 times she was not born at Kaiser, but at home. Of course we had to explain more times than that that Chanler was born in Redwood City Kaiser, not Santa Clara Kaiser . . . Go figure!

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Today was the big day for getting all of Jessaleigh’s “official documents” done. We met our midwife at the vital records office and signed her birth certificate. That took an hour, then we headed to the social security administration. We were prepared/expecting this to be an ordeal. I have heard horror stories about getting a SSN for a child born at home from many of my friends. Anyway we decided to go to the Campbell location, because they had better parking than downtown. We got there at 11am, got helped by 11:15 and were finished by 11:30. NO HASSLES!!!! The person helping us only asked if we had applied for an SSN at the hospital, when I said Jessaleigh was born at home she said – oh OK. No questions, nothing. She was actually more confused by Scott’s name change than by the home birth stuff. So our little girl is now officially a cog the the wheel, just like the rest of us.

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So we had a 2 week check up with our midwife today. Little miss Jessaleigh isn’t so little . . . she weighed 9lbs 5 oz. That is over a 1lb gain in only 2 weeks. I think she is trying to out do her big brother.

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I am still shocked that we have a girl!!!! and now I feel the need to go get some cute girl clothes. Here are my problems with baby girl clothes (I won’t go into here, my issues with clothes for girls in general – i.e. the hoochie problem)

  • Everything is PINK
  • Everything that isn’t pink says Princess, Diva, Cutie, Sweetie, Cupcake or some other horrible thing
  • Girls have outfits and accessories, Boys can throw anything together and it is fine.
  • Shoes! what more do I have to say? (Chanler still only has 2 pairs of shoes each size/season)

I am afraid to even start looking!

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Jessaleigh Andreas Hraban finally decided to make her appearance late groundhog day, but unlike Punxsutawney Phil, Jessaleigh has no option of hiding from her shadow.

Stats:
Born at home, Saturday February 2nd 10:49pm
Weight 8lbs 4oz
Length 20in