Babyup!

Good morning, it’s Day One here.  Yesterday was quite an experience.  Once labor started happening she arrived quite quick, in just 20 minutes!  The whole experience was remarkably calm compared to what I was expecting.

We’re still working on her name, we’re getting closer.  She arrived at 9:49 am.  Six pounds, four ounces.  19.5 inches.

Everyone’s healthy and happy, though there were two issues we had to get through.  Baby had low blood sugar and as a result the doctors had to keep pricking her foot to check on that (ouch!) and also gave her some formula in addition to the breast feeding.  Lisa had some pretty alarming hemorrhaging and lost a liter of blood.  She’s fine now. However, she was pretty knocked out and needed rest.  We’re expecting to spend one more night in the hospital to rest and recover.

Lisa says she’s up for some visitors.  If you’d like to come by give us a call and we’ll give you the details.

The little girl sure is adorable!

Here’s a link to Randy and Jeane’s photos from yesterday. Click here to view in a new window.

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Taking a snooze.

Things are starting to quiet down at last.

We’re all sleepy.

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She’s here!

I went home to feed the cats and fell asleep on the couch.  Lisa says that at 3am the real contractions started, came on strong, more than she could handle.  Lisa was hoping to avoid the use of the drugs, but oh well.  She got the epidural.  She’s all woozy now.  We’re going to nap for a bit.  May see the baby sometime this afternoon.

Yep. Still waiting.  So here’s the deal, Ally McBeal.  It’s about 8pm here.  The barn door isn’t open yet.  In fact, it’s not even cracked a smidge.  Los medicos are going to do this thingie whatchmacallit to relax the cervix and get it in a baby-having mood.  It’s expected that process will take 12 hours to happen, and then it will likely take another 8-12 hours to baby.

So sports fans, most likely we’re looking at some time tomorrow, and probably a quiet night tonight.

Lisa’s getting impatient. She’s going for a walk to see if she can shake the baby out. I went in search for Chinese food.

At 5pm the staff will start trying to talk us into inducing, but we’re going to hold out a bit in hopes of avoiding all those interventions.

Nothing much is happening right now.  We’re told that you pretty much have your baby within 24 hours of your water breaking.  So, we’re expecting the rest of the event today.  Not sure when.

Here’s a photo of the monitor following contractions and baby heartbeat.