Today's picture goal: include G-ma Lam, get shots of Corbin's eyes open. Mission Accomplished!
Update: Grumpy baby felt much better after a bowel movement.
Friday, February 27, 2009
More Pics
We we'll be putting lots of pictures of the little man up around here for the next few years. Here's the next batch...
Today's picture goal: include G-ma Lam, get shots of Corbin's eyes open. Mission Accomplished!
Update: Grumpy baby felt much better after a bowel movement.
Today's picture goal: include G-ma Lam, get shots of Corbin's eyes open. Mission Accomplished!
Update: Grumpy baby felt much better after a bowel movement.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Babytime!
Well, we've sent announcements in a lot of different directions, so I guess it's time to get one up here: Our baby has been born!
It happened 2/22. On Saturday the 21st Mel reported an actually painful contraction. She had been having Braxton / Hicks contractions (non labor, practice contractions) for a while, so we didn't think anything of it. Naturally, that evening I was scheduled to be out with the boys. Mel got a hold of me by 10:30 to come back, and then things started happening quickly. We got to the hospital around midnight. Mel measured 5 cm right off the bat, and 8 cm shortly after, so they knew we weren't foolin around. We went to the delivery room (from labor-admitting) without delay, got the IV in, had some light narcotics and then went on to the epidural. When this kicked in Mel was finally able to get her feet under her. She had been in a lot of pain, and with labor progressing as quickly as it did she didn't have much time to keep up with things. The epidural slows contractions down, so the nurses gave us some time to get ourselves together. After a 1 hr nap a nurse, who though unnamed shall remain forever close to our hearts, came in and said "Well, you're at 9 and a half. Would you like to push?" Our boy was carried very low the entire time, that is to say he didn't have far to go. After 20 min of pushing through contractions the nurse said "Stop!" 10 min later we had a doctor to make the catch and a few more pushes brought our son into the world.
It was 3:39 am. Not quite 4 hrs after getting to the hospital, we had reached the apogee of our stay. There were 10 babies that night, and 7 circumcisions the next day. We got outta there about 36 hrs after that.
Before we left we figured we really ought to settle on a name. Mel had said early that she didn't know if she could choose one before she had seen the guy. At that time we had picked out a few family names, and I gathered a batch from baby name resources on the web. In the hospital we ended up choosing Corbin from the short list. Faced with the need to choose again for the middle name, my own middle name was conscripted for duty.
Corbin Christopher Thorne. 6 lbs, 14 oz at birth, 20 in. Pictures follow.
It happened 2/22. On Saturday the 21st Mel reported an actually painful contraction. She had been having Braxton / Hicks contractions (non labor, practice contractions) for a while, so we didn't think anything of it. Naturally, that evening I was scheduled to be out with the boys. Mel got a hold of me by 10:30 to come back, and then things started happening quickly. We got to the hospital around midnight. Mel measured 5 cm right off the bat, and 8 cm shortly after, so they knew we weren't foolin around. We went to the delivery room (from labor-admitting) without delay, got the IV in, had some light narcotics and then went on to the epidural. When this kicked in Mel was finally able to get her feet under her. She had been in a lot of pain, and with labor progressing as quickly as it did she didn't have much time to keep up with things. The epidural slows contractions down, so the nurses gave us some time to get ourselves together. After a 1 hr nap a nurse, who though unnamed shall remain forever close to our hearts, came in and said "Well, you're at 9 and a half. Would you like to push?" Our boy was carried very low the entire time, that is to say he didn't have far to go. After 20 min of pushing through contractions the nurse said "Stop!" 10 min later we had a doctor to make the catch and a few more pushes brought our son into the world.
It was 3:39 am. Not quite 4 hrs after getting to the hospital, we had reached the apogee of our stay. There were 10 babies that night, and 7 circumcisions the next day. We got outta there about 36 hrs after that.
Before we left we figured we really ought to settle on a name. Mel had said early that she didn't know if she could choose one before she had seen the guy. At that time we had picked out a few family names, and I gathered a batch from baby name resources on the web. In the hospital we ended up choosing Corbin from the short list. Faced with the need to choose again for the middle name, my own middle name was conscripted for duty.
Corbin Christopher Thorne. 6 lbs, 14 oz at birth, 20 in. Pictures follow.
Friday, February 06, 2009
Correction
I made a mistake the other day when I posted that my uterus was measuring 30 inches. I meant that it was measuring 30 centimeters. Of course, now it's measuring 33 cm, so go ahead and measure your torso again. I'll wait.
If you want a measurement in inches, my belly measures 44 inches around at belly button level.
If you want a measurement in inches, my belly measures 44 inches around at belly button level.
Monday, February 02, 2009
Waiting on the lungs
That's really what we're doing right now. He could come out any time, but a few more weeks of lung development is really a pretty good idea, so I'm trying not to be too impatient. Ha ha. Hi, have you met me?
Something else you may not have known about being pregnant: your extremeties sometimes go numb. WTEWYE says it's because you've started to retain a lot of water, which swells your tissues, which press on your nerves, which go numb or sometimes tingly. So if you see me suddenly start waving my right arm over my head, it's because my hand has gone numb again. This is especially fun when I'm driving.
Speaking of which, there's been this whole discussion about the safety of using cell phones while you're driving, and how unsafe it is because you're distracted by the phone call. I think it's a hell of a lot more distracting when the kid is kicking me than if I'm on the phone, but I'd love to see them try to tell pregnant women to stop driving after the second trimester. Good luck with that.
I would also like to say that my stomach has been upgraded from a Category Showing to a Category Large. I've found myself actually running into things with my belly, which is a really good way to make yourself feel like a slob.
I spent yesterday laying around in between trips to the basement to start the next load of laundry. We did realize that we should probably freeze some meals, too, and I guess getting our bag packed would be a good idea, although that's clearly much less important than making sure that I've borrowed seasons 5-7 of the West Wing from Heidi and Garry, don't you think? Clearly.
Something else you may not have known about being pregnant: your extremeties sometimes go numb. WTEWYE says it's because you've started to retain a lot of water, which swells your tissues, which press on your nerves, which go numb or sometimes tingly. So if you see me suddenly start waving my right arm over my head, it's because my hand has gone numb again. This is especially fun when I'm driving.
Speaking of which, there's been this whole discussion about the safety of using cell phones while you're driving, and how unsafe it is because you're distracted by the phone call. I think it's a hell of a lot more distracting when the kid is kicking me than if I'm on the phone, but I'd love to see them try to tell pregnant women to stop driving after the second trimester. Good luck with that.
I would also like to say that my stomach has been upgraded from a Category Showing to a Category Large. I've found myself actually running into things with my belly, which is a really good way to make yourself feel like a slob.
I spent yesterday laying around in between trips to the basement to start the next load of laundry. We did realize that we should probably freeze some meals, too, and I guess getting our bag packed would be a good idea, although that's clearly much less important than making sure that I've borrowed seasons 5-7 of the West Wing from Heidi and Garry, don't you think? Clearly.
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