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Don’t worry, this isn’t going to become a baby blog. Obviously, my life is consumed with the little one right now, so that’s what is on my mind.

We actually haven’t made it out to a restaurant yet with the baby, but we do have plans to make a sushi run this week.

We have had some great meals provided by family and friends, both home made and taken out.

Since we delivered at Santa Monica UCLA, we had some food from some of the Westside spots, including at least one place that I hadn’t tried yet — Izzy’s Deli. Izzy’s is a convenient spot when you’re at SM UCLA, it’s right across the street, has an enormous menu, and is open 24 hours. I had a chicken caeser salad delivered by my parents. It was huge and the ingredients were fresh.

My wife was able to order room service all day, anytime she wanted. The food was actually pretty good, plenty of options and enough variety to keep her interested.

I ate most of my breakfasts from the cafeteria. It’s probably the best meal available there. The cook makes up breakfast burritos and breakfast quesadillas to order. I have been long searching for a good source for breakfast burritos, and I may have found the spot in the SM UCLA cafeteria. Made with fresh scrambled eggs, cheese, onions, potatoes and wrapped in a whole wheat tortilla, a great way to start the day.

In the hospital we had two meals delivered by family from Jinky’s. I had a really good southwest chicken salad and my wife had her favorite: the chopped salad with turkey.

One night friends brought over Hawaiian BBQ Chicken from L&L Barbecue. The chicken, rice and macaroni salad was the perfect comfort food and after finishing dinner, I had enough left over for lunch the next day.

After we made it home, we had cooking support from my wife’s mom who did some shopping around for some special ingredients. Some of our treats:

• Burrata and Fresh Baked Bread from Bay Cities Deli, topped with basil pesto and tomatoes from Wednesday’s farmer’s market
• Cupcakes from Yummy Cupcakes
• Baked goodies from Amandine
• Chicken, hummous, garlic sauce (of course) and tabbouleh from Zankou — Twice!
• Fresh beef medallions from a vendor at Wednesday’s Farmer’s Market
• A full fridge from Trader Joe’s

The guard has changed and my mom is here now to take care of us for a bit. Chicken romano last night and french toast this morning to kick things off.

We’re a lucky family to have such great support and food. I’m lucky to be able to take a fair amount of time off of work, for all those new and soon to become dad’s, don’t miss out on California’s Paid Family Bonding Time.

By Jonah (see more of his posts). Jonah is the founder of la.foodblogging and also created Digesty, a food blog aggregator and Cheww.com, a spam free foodblog search engine.