Early Arrival

From JT:

We are happy to announce that Blaine Reeve Tartikoff was born at 9:17am on Feb 1, 2006. If you are thinking -- I sure thought that Anne was due in March -- you are right. He was quite a surprise. Anne was visiting her mother in Augusta, GA.... He was delivered an hour before I arrived, though I was on speaker phone encouraging Anne and sharing in the moment. Anne's father, a pediatric anesthesiologist at the hospital was with Anne in my place to comfort her.

Blaine was a little over 4 weeks early, but weighed in at a comfortable 6lbs 10oz (a bit over 19cm long) -- about the size of an average full term baby... Anne is doing well in her recovery. The doctor said she could go home today if she wanted to, though we are both staying as they continue to monitor Blaine.

We are still not quite sure how we will be returning home, and all of our baby supplies are in Philadelphia. Plus -- since we expected to have another month, we have plenty still to do. Please keep Blaine in your thoughts and prayers. We are thankful for his arrival and excited to begin our life together. He apparently was so excited, he wanted to start a month early!