Into surgery

Mom and Dad patiently await my arrival, as Dr. Solberg and her awesome team work away at bringing me into the world.

And here I am!

And here I am! Miss Bria Maxine Parkinson entered the world at 7:40 a.m. on Nov. 24, 2009. She weighed 7 pounds, 4 ounces, and was 19 1/2 inches long. She is perfect!


Daddy was so overjoyed to spend a moment with me under the warmers, soon after my birth.


Daddy and my nurse, Carol, looked me over after Dr. Nielsen was finished checking me out. Everything looks great - my apgar was 9.


All swaddled and ready to meet my Mom and head off to the nursery.

Meeting Mommy

And finally I got to go meet my mommy and have my very first bonding moment with my parents.


Mom was so excited to meet me!

In the nursery

In the nursery, the nurse and Daddy treated my eyes...


...and Daddy held my hand while she tested all my vitals...


...and they put on all my bracelets and ID tags (the one on my ankle is a security tag to keep someone other than my parents from removing me from the OB ward)...

...and weighed and measured me. All went perfectly!

My first bath

Waiting for Mommy

Once I was all checked over and squeaky clean, Daddy and I had to wait for a while for Mommy to come out of recovery. It felt like forever!

Mommy's here!

Mommy was sleepy when she came out of recovery, but that's OK, because so was I!


After all this time, Mommy and I can finally be together and snuggle!