Fitz catch-all: bathing, crying, & being held

Going through our photos, we’ve overlooked posting a handful of images for no apparent reason. These pics have no uniting theme other than they all centre around Fitz.

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Above and below: These are from his first day in the hospital.

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Fitz had to spend 2.5 days in the NICU to make sure he didn’t have any infections. Here he is chilling out in the infant care unit.

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Above and below: Fitz spent his last night in NICU detached from any monitoring equipment and slept with us in a special room for nursing mothers. It was like a hotel room in a hospital without the charge!

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Carly was adamant that this onesie be the first one he ever wore.

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Above: Carly’s sister Heather holds Fitz a few hours after he arrival.

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fitz-nanny_6503Above: Proud grandmother Susan (now known as “Nanny”) holds Fitz at one week.

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While out at a midwife appointment, Fitz displays his future teenager angst by rolling his eyes and giving us the middle finger.

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Above: Momma’s boy.

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Bath time! Of his four baths to date this one was he most enjoyable (probably becuz it was a photo shoot).

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By 20 days-old, Fitz’s personality is starting to come through.

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His passion for hockey is already showing. Above he reacts to a Leafs goal, and below to a Sens goal.

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Out for a stroll

As we start to get the hang of this thing called “parenting” we are branching out into activities like “walking”, totally a foreign concept to us for the first 2 weeks of Fitzy’s life. He has now travelled along such notable Toronto streets as King, Queen, and Roncesvalles. He has even traversed a laneway behind our house when Matt took him out there around midnight to see whether a bumpy stroller walk would put him to sleep. It did not. But Carly’s jaunt along the waterfront today knocked him out cold (for 30 minutes).

There is a little video at the bottom of the post of Carly and Fitz arriving home.

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