Live From The Field
Posted in Labor & Delivery, Matthew on Oct 16th, 2006
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Contractions
Posted in Labor & Delivery, Matthew on Oct 16th, 2006
We’ve been up for just a little over an hour since Jessica’s water broke, and the contractions started probably a half an hour ago. Six and a half minutes between contractions and the last one lasted a minute and twenty seconds. No more blogging for me — I’ve got stuff to do….
D+1: It’s Showtime!
Posted in Labor & Delivery, Matthew on Oct 16th, 2006
Well, here’s a way to wake up: “Holy @#$%, Matt — my water just broke!” And did it ever! But still no real labor. We’re gonna call the doctor’s office in a little bit and see what they want us to do. Stay tuned….
That’s right. It’s October 15, the theoretical due date, and there’s no baby in sight. Jessica feels pretty good and is spending the day knitting. I’m cleaning up the house a bit and putting together my bag for the hospital trip (and, yes, I know I should’ve done that last week). But no labor, no […]
Sometime back in the Summer I started taking the extra pennies out of my pocket at the end of the day and putting them in my self-illuminating Burger King Gandalf Goblet, where they quickly became known as “Whozit’s College Fund”. Don’t laugh — the kid’s gonna need something when s/he graduates from high school, right? […]
Tristan is adorable. Soon we’ll never see him again. — Cool beans! The above picture and text came from my new cell phone thanks to the Postie plugin for WordPress (and some config tweaking by moi). I really wanted to get this done before we left for the hospital so that we could keep you […]
As D-Day draws nearer and nearer, Jessica was starting to worry that we wouldn’t get around to scanning our ultrasound pictures and getting them posted here before we actually had photos of Baby Whozit ex utero. So I spent an hour over at Perry and Tia’s yesterday quickly ripping these onto a USB drive and […]
A combination of (a.) embarassment that we hadn’t taken any pictures for such a long time and (b.) fear that Baby Whozit’s delivery is becoming more and more imminent every day forced us out into the front yard with a camera this beautiful October morning. Check out that belly! And then check out more thrilling […]
I finally did something right. Exchanged the Small (55 cm) excercise ball for the Medium (65 cm) one. Works great. Actually works well for me, too — sitting on it as I write this. My mom even did sit-ups on it this afternoon and sang its praises. Everyone loves the Ball!
This is just getting ridiculous. Last night we did the tour at the Maternity Ward at Norton Suburban Hospital, and again we were quoted the “four out of five infant car seats are installed incorrectly” speech and told to arrange an inspection. We were handed a flier that had the exact same list of places […]