Noah Samuel Kohen, son of Chava (orange) and Alex Kohen

Born April 28, 2006 at 2:46 pm

7 lbs, 9 ounces

Thank you for the warm welcome and kind wishes.

The c-section went well with no complications. Noah is a large healthy baby, despite toxemia and early delivery. My wife is exceptionally well and energetic, and simply mezmorized with the baby, not letting anyone of us take him away from her for more than a few minutes. Mother and son will remain in hospital for a few more days.

The older children have been suffering from a severe respiratory infection for the last few days. They were up for a planned event yesterday evening and seemed better. Today, they are back in bed.

Now I seem to have a minor version of the same. This is unfortunate as I now feel compelled to take precautions around my wife and son.

I will attempt another update in a few days but for now I am thinking only of bed.

Congrats on the birth of your bouncing baby boy! Get plenty of rest Dad you'll need it!:cool: :)

Congrads dr. daddy and momma chava!!

Absolutely love the pic.

Get ready to take a million more.

:) CONGRATULATIONS!!!:)

Congratulations, Now just imagine how much he would have weighed at full term... lol. Ouch.. He's really big and beautiful. I wish you the best with the virus and the swift passage of it. I'm glad that you contacted us and let us know that they are doing OK. Get that rest and we're hoping to here from you again soon proud papa. Let mom know we're thinking of her and wishing her and noah the very best. For chava, I hope she has a swift recovery and that they come home soon.

Chava and Alex...

Mazel Tov on the birth of your son.

I am glad to hear that both Noah and Chava are doing well.

:)

Noah... a nice name for a boy.

Congratulations both of you!

Congratulations on your new baby. Wonderful news. Get your rest and take care.

Joe

M A Z A L T O V !



Milie



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The baby looks great!
I wish him to live up to his name (Noah),
And I wish you all to have a very happy long life together, in good health

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Congrats, Mazel-Tov and best wishes.

You will be thinking mostly of bed for a while ;)

Thanks for sharing.

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Mazel Tov! Happy Birthday, Noah!

:) CONGRATULATIONS!!! :D All the best to you and the family!! :)

CONGRATULATIONS... Kohen family!! He's absolutely beautiful.:D

Wow thanks for all the congratulations you guys. I just got home this morning. I am very sore and very tired. Noah is wonderful though!! :) :) :)

I noticed Alex has not been on here much lol but that's to be expected as he's not feeling too well and also he was on call all weekend. My parents are here so they are helping to relieve the burden of all the extra work, and taking care of the kids.

Anyway just wanted to check in. I'm still going to be pretty inactive on the site I think... probably for the next few weeks.

Congratulations Chava and Alex. It is great you are doing well and home already.

The baby is so cute. Congratulations Chava and Alex.

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Glad to see that your home and enjoing that beautiful baby of yours. Hope Alex feels better soon. I'm glad to hear that your parents are there helping too. That should be very good for you and the little ones. Keep us posted when you have the energy, don't worry we'll be here for you anytime.

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Congratulations! So let us see a pic of the little bouncer!

MAZAL TOV!

And a big hug to all of you

Millie

:)

WOW! Congratulations Chava! Such a big family in such a short time - you're amazing. I am so proud of you, and want you to know my best wishes go to all of you with lots and lots of LOVE!http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/36/36_3_16.gif (http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZN)

Hang in there and enjoy. You can always count on us for that little bit of support when you're drained.

Hugs to Alex and the kids!


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Congrats and get some sleep! The best advice I ever got was: SLEEP WHEN THE BABY SLEEPS!! Trust me, you should! Enjoy your little one!

Congratulations! So let us see a pic of the little bouncer!

Sorry about having no pic. Actually one was up while I was in the hospital, Alex had put it up, but I got weirdly paranoid about having my baby's picture up on the internet, so yesterday I took it down. Hormones I guess!

Thanks again everyone for all the good wishes. Yes it's great to have my parents here, they will be here until the end of September actually (if some of you recall, this is their house that we are living in, and they are selling it to us). The older kids are getting spoiled having them here, because my parents are big Fuddruckers fans and they take the kids with them to Fuddruckers for supper 2-3 times a week!! And my mom has been a great help with Noah. So far he seems like a very contented baby. He doesn't cry much except when he's getting changed or changing his clothes. My mom says that's because newborns don't like getting cold. Anyway he's so tiny and perfect and everyone is in love with him, the kids included. Four-year-old Levi is especially excited, saying he has a brother now, and he can't wait until Noah can play with him.

Anyway thanks again guys, I will definitely be around and will ask any questions if I need to! You guys are all a great resource for that!

A little late... But congratulations on the healthy boy, hope everything is good for the other children as well and hope your recovering nicely

Thanks wizzkid! So far so good! How are you doing anyway? Haven't seen you around for a while again.

So glad your parents are there and everything is working out so well.

Also glad to hear the house is still a go.

And I love the name. We actually considered noah (among other names, mostly biblical) for my son until the idea came to name him after his great grandfather, a man I highly respected and admired.

Anyway, its fun to hear you talk about your baby now that he's finally here.

anyway, its fun to hear you talk about your baby now that hes finally here.

Oh, you like hearing me talk about him? LOL, I was trying to refrain from saying too much, so as not to bore people haha. But I'm glad you enjoy it. Given that encouragement, I'll share something else about him... he has my yawn! You see, I have a very strange lop-sided yawn, I sort of yawn just on one side of my mouth. It looks like I'm doing it on purpose and adults used to scold me for it but since Noah does it too, I guess it's genetic. Anyway it's super cute. :)

You can also tell when he's upset because his face scrunches up like a cabbage patch doll just before he's going to try. I've tried to get it on camera but so far no luck. ;)

my son has my grandfather's naughty smile. It's a little crooked, with the jaw slightly off center. The first time I saw it, I was floored. Its not every smile... just when he's mischievous. And it is absolutely unmistakable... like your yawn.

my wife is italian, so all the ladies expected a dark skinned, brown eyed boy. When they see the light skinned, blue eyed child, I tell them he gets his looks from his father and his naughtiness from his mother. =)

wait until a few more months pass. I think around 3 months is when the real character started to show. You're going to have so much fun... it makes all the craziness worth it.