Miles is Here!!!

I am pleased to announce that Leysia gave birth to a healthy and beautiful baby boy Sunday, June 11th, at 5:12 AM in Aarhus Denmark seven days after his due date. Miles Palen Anderson was 3.8 kilo or 8 lbs 6 oz (same birth weight his sister, Lilja, was) and 50 centimeters (or 19.7 inches) long.

Miles is a gentle soul who likes to be held and is a very quiet baby. He and Leysia stayed at the hospital on Sunday night due to the fact that Miles's glucose level was low. He was doing fine and we thought we could bring him home Monday, but the pediatrician decided that he should stay one more day in the hospital because his most recent test showed that an indicator for infection was “elevated”. To our eyes, he looks and acts perfectly fine, but we understand why the doctors want to be cautious. We are hoping that we'll be able to bring Miles home on Tuesday.



Lilja and Max absolutely adore their baby brother as you can see above. Lilja immediately started to refer to Miles as "MY MILES!" (You can hear that the two words are all capitalized when she says it.) and last night when we got home from the hospital she asked “Where's Miles?” not quite processing that we had left him and Mama behind but revealing that she was thinking about him and wanted to see him again. Max went on and on about how beautiful Miles is and how much he enjoyed holding him. Indeed, when I took the kids to see Miles on Monday night, we spent most of our time helping both kids take turns at holding Miles. They love being near him and are quite happy that he has joined our family.

Finally, to round out this post, here is a short video of Miles that I took today. He doesn't do much but look at his hand, but its still fun to watch a newborn! And, yes, I am not biased in any way towards this particular newborn. :-)



More pictures are available at Flickr in our Miles First Photos photo set. Note to family members: there are some new pictures in this set that I didn't have time to include in our private mail messages... so be sure to check them all out!

Ken