The New Baby in Town

At 6.15am on 8 February 2007 in Hoboken University Medical Center, New Jersey, USA after many hours of labour (of which ten hours were following being induced with pitocin) and an emergency caesarean (due to full dialation but failure to progress), the beautiful Connor arrived weighing 9lbs 9oz and 21 inches long. He had a thick head of dark brown hair. He was of course gorgeous to us. One of my first questions to his pediatrician, Dr Manuel Hugo, in the hospital was however, about his squishy head. It's normal, I was told. All babies look a bit bashed up to start with. Seemed reasonable.

As the weeks passed, he became even more lovely but I still thought perhaps his forehead was a little large or his hairline a little receded and the back of his head a little pointy. At his first pediatrician appointment in Union, New Jersey, amongst my list of questions for Dr Hugo and pretty standard concerns (he sneezes a lot and seems congested; he's unsettled and burpy between 6pm and 11pm; is he eating too much?) was one about the bump on his head - was it OK? Once again I was told it would round out with time.