Thank you, everyone, for sharing advice, for the visits, calls and gifts, and all the well wishes! We're still catching up with baby and sleep so for now, just a quick update :-) Above is his first passport photo, taken by the hospital's photographer at about a day old. We flew to Bangkok at 35 weeks, since the airlines don't let you travel any later into the pregnancy than that as a precaution against having to deal with a woman in labor on board. Other mothers in Phnom Penh have driven either down to the border at Koh Kong (via a road that goes off the grid for a solid hour, as of 2010), or else up north through Poipet into Aranyaprathet, Thailand, and then bus/train it to Bangkok. But I just didn't think I could handle … [Read more...]