Neil Diamond – Sweet Caroline
So you’re probably wondering why I all of a sudden disappeared when I was supposed to be writing everyday. Well yes folks, our little bundle of joy came 2 weeks early, and while I had this crazy notion that I’d be able to accommodate everyone with new posts right after she was born (as well as somehow accommodate all of her and her mom’s needs) I was gravely mistaken. Our little lady was born on April 1st, 2012 at 5:26 am. She was 7 lbs, 8 ozs, and 20 inches long and is looking great. Now here’s how it happened:
So we went into the hospital on March 31st around 9am after some labor pains early in the morning, and after 24 hour or so of labor from the first pains, we finally had a C Section take place to bring her into the world. Now without going into crazy detail, the summary of events were this.
1.) Baby makes a lot of progress, like 6 cm very quickly.
2.) Momma gets epidural and has her water broken.
3.) Everything slows to a halt.
4.) Pittossin for 8 hours to get to the full 10 cm.
5.) Pushing for 2 hours with no progress because your new baby likes to not turn her head.
6.) Doctor saves the day with a C Section
Now she was never in any danger, other than exhausting her grandparents who stayed the WHOLE time, but after so much work and 2 exhausted parents, our OB thought it would just be fine. Actually, if you remember from the last post, we went to our original hospital and had her normal OB deliver, only to find out that no one had told the Dr. that the round robin had happened. Not to worry though, this thing ran well, and besides our delivery, she was also able to deliver 3 other children before ours finally joined us in the world in recovery, 2 of them happening between our procedure and the time that she had follow up with us in recovery. Super doctor if you ask me.
So I could probably go on and on and on and on and on about the first week in the hospital, and all the things that I can’t stop loving about my new daughter, but we have time, and I have a lot of room to fill up this blog in the coming days. So for now, I’m just going to share a little video of some of our happiest moments, and fill you in on all of my insights in the future.
traveling daddy 