Hi

These are the "Piggy Files", the continuing new adventures into parenthood by me and the wife.

Okay, for the first post the wife and I felt it we needed to explain ourselves a little, namely to help prevent the eventual outrage by some over calling our little one the piggy, actually the true nick name is piggybutt, hence the name of the blog the "Piggy Files".

The Piggy was born at only 28.5 weeks and spend the first 7 weeks of her little life in the NICU. She was born weighing only 2 lbs. 3 oz. As time passed she slowly but surely gained in size and weight. Because she was so small the wife starting calling her piggybutt in hopes she would embrace the name and gain weight. At first she could only be fed via I.V. fluids and lipids, soon she moved to tube feedings with slowly increasing amounts. Around the 5th week she was finally mature enough to try bottle feeding, which she took like a thirsty German at Oktoberfest takes a beer. The wife, myself and the nurses were rather excited by this and jokingly called her a pig as she was fufilling her mom's hopes. I resisting at first but gave in after a visit from the mother-in-law.

The wife's mother came to visit and instantly fell in love with the little one and the nickname, so much so that upon returning home, she promptly bought and sent the wife and I a 27" stuffed pig, which we subsequently named Breakfast. Needless to say like the Borg resistance was futile and I quickly surrendered any hope of combating this nickname and instead learned to embraced it.

Almost 6 months later the wife and I are finally getting into the swing of things and had enough free time that we could create this blog to share our experiances as first time parents.

Well thats all for now, tomorow is family day so hopefully we'll have an intresting story, if not we'll continue filling in the background and history of the Piggy.


Ish.