Welcome to the blog of Dominic Rammohan Scialdone, born on October 22nd, 2007. Dominic was born at Long Island College Hospital at 8 p.m. exactly and he came in at 9 lbs., 6 oz. (that's 4,225 gms for the metrically inclined!) and 21 1/4 inches long. He was
not 11 lbs, as predicted by one of the midwives shortly before his mother went into the O.R. (and it's really not nice to scare people that way!!)
Minutes after delivery, Dominic was not particularly impressed by this brave new world:

But things seemed to be a bit better some hours later when he'd had a chance to get his bearings: