Morgan - 2 weeks old

Welcome to the world, Morgan Spencer Rutkowski!  We are so happy you are here!

• You spent your first 4 days of life without a name.  We went into the hospital with a list of about 50 possibilities and narrowed it down a bit more each day.  Finally it came down to Morgan, Chloe, or Remy.  Daddy really liked the last 2 but Bennett and I liked Morgan so that's what we went with.  However, we're still calling you Scrappy most of the time.
• You eat so much!  We easily spend 30-45 minutes each nursing session.  You do "click" when you nurse, meaning your latch isn't sealed, but we've even been to a nursing specialist and determined it's just your style.  It isn't preventing you from getting the amount you need and you don't seem bothered by it.
• You're very easy so far.  You just eat and sleep and are happy as long as someone's snuggling you.
• Your brother is infatuated with you!  Every time he wakes up or comes in from being apart from you, his first question is to ask where you are.
• Like your siblings, you love bathtime and the sound of water.
• When you're fussing during the night you'll settle down quickly if I sing to you.
• You are following in Bennett's path - you like binkies and need to be swaddled to relax.
• You have a strong neck and can hold your head up very well for a newborn.
• Snuggling!  Oh my, how you love the snuggling.  It's your most favorite thing.
• Your arms and legs are very squirmy, constantly in motion.
• You are what the nurses call a "gaggy" baby - several times a day/night, you will suddenly start choking on your own air.  The nurses say that's common in C-section babies, but it doesn't make it any less scary.  As a result, you sleep on the Boppy right next to my face so I can hear you in the night when you choke and help get you breathing well again.
• Your first few days you hated the sound of a toilet flushing.  Your whole body would freak out and you'd start to cry.  So even Bennett got used to calling out "flush warning!" to whoever was holding you at the moment.
• Daddy is your master burper.  No one can get good burps out of you the way he can.
• Right now your eye color is ambivalent.  It's definitely not brown, but I also wouldn't call it blue. . .kind of a muddy, steely gray.

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