Finally Here

Ben, we are so happy to have the FIRST BOY in the Sortore family! I was so excited to hear that you were coming and finally your here! I can't wait to meet you! You sound like a very good baby that likes to sleep, which we aren't used to because of your older sis cried all the time! I can already tell your going to be an athlete. You have big enough hands to catch a football, just like your Uncle Dustin! He can't wait to be able to show you some skills! You have a beautiful and spoiled older sister that you are going to have to break in! We love you and can't wait to meet you! Love Aunt E and Uncle Dustin

Welcome!!

Well Benaiah
Welcome to the world!!! Unfortunately I haven't gotten the chance to meet you, but I hear you are quite a good baby. I begged grama to send pictures every chance she had. You are so beautiful and look a lot like your sister!!! You have a few different features, like your nose, but mostly the same. I am sure you are changing every day, but your mom is a little busy with the two of you to send new pictures. It seems as though you had quite the busy little birth. They did want to have you at home, but you were taking your time and putting your mom through a lot of pain. She was great though. She wanted to have you naturally and she did everything she could to do so. Of course all to benefit you!!! One day you will thank her for all the hard work that day!! I really hope to get to see you soon and absolutely cannot wait!!! Like I have told your mom when she had Eve and now having you, it's hard to imagine that not even having met you yet, I love you so very much!!! You and Eve are wonderful blessings to all of us!!!
Love you!!
Aunt Jill

not quite a homebirth

Well kid, we thought we had it all figured out. We hired a homebirth midwife and a doula to help us welcome you into the world. Labor started on Wednesday morning about 3 a.m. The midwife was called about 4:30 in the morning on Wednesday, August 1. She sent her birth assistant over and they checked your heart rate and everything was moving along fine. The doula came over a little later that morning around 7 and the midwife made it over around 10 a.m. Labor was slow but progressing and we had a labor pool in the living room that made everything a little easier to handle. To make a long labor short, we ended up going to the hospital on Thursday morning around 4 a.m. The birth assistant drove us to National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD and you were born about 4 1/2 hours later. You were a large, healthy boy at 9 pounds, 1 ounce and were 21 1/2 inches long. Mom and dad were so proud to have a little boy and we all went home the next afternoon. Eve came to visit you in the hospital with grama. Eve loved you from day one and loves to put her pink blankets on you while you are laying down. You gained about 2 pounds in 2 weeks and love to eat and sleep. Mom and dad laugh at what an easy-going baby you are. Eve sometimes refers to you as a pooping machine because it's a phrase that mom uses occasionally. You have managed to pee on mom four times so far soaking her bed twice and pooped on her bed only once. Of course your dad thinks that is hilarious and says I should have learned my lesson by now. Your baby acne is finally starting to fade a little and you focus your eyes on whoever is holding you. Mom and dad can't wait to see who you will look like! We love you more than you could know.