Baby shower at Vassar College
Maia is two weeks old and already goes to college... check out the pics here.
Maia is two weeks old and already goes to college... check out the pics here.
Maia is already into a very successful modelling career. Here she can be seen showing a package of "Landhof Kalbsleber Streichwurst", a delicious Austrian liver pate, which makes her very strong. She can lift the huge 25-gram package with absolutely no effort at the tender age of one week!
A quick nap before going home - this additional couple of days in the hospital were like a first vacation with my parents. Both of them stayed with me the whole time and we all got to relax a little.
This is our lovely Maia enjoying a sunbath in her little incubator solarium. She doesn't seem to mind that this is phototherapy. It's all a matter of perspective - and Maia chose to look at the bright side of it and enjoyed herself like a pig in the mud. And aren't those shades the coolest you've seen around - quite a fashion statement...
Between trips to the hospital and continuous diaper changes, we finally found some time to post some pictures of Maia... here they are!
This is Gabi talking on the phone to her parents in Austria at 9am in the morning of March 3rd, congratulating them on their 32nd wedding anniversary. Five minutes later we would both be off to work. I took this picture of her very casually, just to finish up the roll on my camera. Little we knew that just a couple of hours later, she will be rushed to the hospital to deliver the baby. Maia would have been born just nine hours after this moment. Cool or what?
It happened. Finally. We have brought into this world a gorgeous little girl we have named Maia (which is the Greek goddess of Spring, and also means "Illusion" in Hindi.) Not a moment too soon, even though she was five weeks early. Fortunately enough, both mom and daughter are doing great after a very intense and quick labor (four hours of excitement, thrills and very high-pitch vocals.) This was, by far, the happiest day of our lives.