Man, what a stressful week. Wife has high blood pressure on Thursday so the docs decide it's best to induce the delivery of my first child almost 3 weeks early. New baby comes about 30 freaking hours later (!) and is totally healthy and beautiful - cool!

Wife gets SUPER high blood pressure after the birth and has to stay in the hospital until this evening (7 days at the hospital). Otherwise wife is fine. Now my wife is on blood pressure meds and we have to monitor her BP several times a day until she stabilizes, which docs say 2 weeks or less. OK, not the end of the world but the doc told me that we were in "stroke territory" when her BP was crazy high at the hospital.

Then, as a precaution, we had to bring home an oxygen canister hooked up to the baby because we live at almost 9000 feet. The oxygen company sent out a tech to test new baby's blood oxygen levels at 9:00PM (impressive service there).

Tech says the baby is "borderline" meaning that we need to keep her on oxygen until the docs say she's ok to go without. Wife freaks. I tell her that the docs at the hospital told us that "many" infants need to be on mild oxygen from a few days to a few weeks. She won't hear it and is stressed.

Anyone experience this stuff with the oxygen at altitude with infants?

And thanks again for everyone's support. So cool.