Gaspar was born on Monday, July 2, 2012, at 9am, in Abu Dhabi. He weighed about 3.5kg, even though we was taken out a week or two early.

Big and alert, like his siblings. He opened his eyes less than ten minutes after birth.

He had some breathing trouble. Nothing as serious as his brother, but he still got sent to the neonatal intensive care unit for tests and monitoring for a couple of days.

Here's a video of Gaspar five hours after birth, with the breathing already normalized, wondering about all the beeping noises and the plastic box around him (low-quality video as I only had my phone with me at this point). Care at Corniche Hospital has always been excellent (the VON medical outcome stats for their NICU are outstanding, beating most reference units in the US and Europe).

Nathalie also went into observation in intensive care, but more as a precaution on account of the trouble she had after the previous one. Sad not to have the baby with her, but on morphine, so pretty chilled out (maybe more than I've ever seen her...)

The next day, Gaspar was having sweet dreams: every once in a while he'd smile in his sleep.

Out of the incubator and getting ready to go home.