Photos taken in January 2005.


My son Mitaro was born at Palmore Hospital, which is an old hospital specializing in obstetrics located quite near my office, on January 16, 2005. The five following pictures were taken on his first day on the earth.



The hand is mine.



My wife looks quite tired, which she may well be. She already had contraction the day before, but my son refused to be born until afternoon this day. I had been with her, or them, until he was safely born.





Our first family photo, which I asked a nurse to take for us.




I took these two pictures at the hospital the next day. My son was already able to see then.






At the hospital on January 18.




At the hospital on Jan. 19.






At the hospital on Jan. 20.



Three pictures at my store on Jan. 23. The first one shows two customers, who are also family friends, besides my wife and son.





My father-in-law took this second family photo of us.




Three pictures at my store on Jan. 26. A friend in the U.S. presented my son with this over-all, but he is too tiny for it. In fact everything seemed to be too big for him at this point.







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