Recap: If I have not mentioned it here recently, I need to explicitly reemphasize the fact that I married an amazing woman.
Here is Baby Sofie's birth story:
We had the most surprising and rapid labor.
Mild contractions began in the middle of the night on Sunday night (July 22nd) but they were fading so much that by Monday morning that we could not even really time them. Thinking we had a few more days to wait, I went to work for a few hours to tie up some loose ends. When I came home at about 4pm (with flowers and even more groceries) the contractions were back, but still fairly mild and still ~ 10 to 12 minutes apart. They grew a bit more intense by about 6pm, but we were timing them and we still seemed very far from “real labor.”
At about 9pm, something changed,… we thought we were maybe beginning the next phase, ~7 minutes apart, turning the first corner in Penny Simpkin’s ‘Road Map of Labor’ -- perhaps we were at 2-3cm,…? Somewhere in the top row of the map.
But it still did not seem like we were close compared to the videos we saw in Penny’s classes. Then, at about 11pm, some interesting ‘fluids’ started to show up with stronger contractions, so we called the hospital thinking we still had hours (or days) to go.
Our midwife gently suggested we come in to check it out, ‘just in case’ and we were at the hospital by about 11:30pm. Our midwife later told us the nurses at the front desk were whispering something like: “oh they’ll be going home…” because Regina seemed so calm and peaceful.
At this time, the midwife checked Regina out and said she was already at 9cm and that we’d better get ready to push! We did not even bring in our bags or clothes, or labor supplies because even we thought we’d be going home to wait.
Regina’s sister, Laura, arrived about 30 minutes later, we all counted and breathed and pushed for what seemed like a few short contractions (and only seven pushes), and our little girl arrived flawlessly and naturally at 1:28am on Tuesday July 24th. The nurses were shocked at how fast and easy it seemed.
Regina was a superstar.
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Photo of the Day
First Day Home
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Song of the Day: Sundress Happiness (5.56M mp3)
me and my girl, we want to have a baby
me and my girl, we want to have a child
our friends who have kids think we’re freak’en crazy
diapers and bills in huge gigantic piles
she’s my sundress happiness
I’m her love-bead centipede
I’m her goatee devotee
she’s my million dollar dandelion
so, I quit my job, and started mixing potions
she cut my hair and got a ‘ yes ’ tattoo
I crashed the car and shattered all my notions
she passed the bar and sued Lee Iococca
she’s my sundress happiness
I’m her love-bead centipede
I’m her goatee devotee
she’s my million dollar dandelion
look in her eyes, an amber laser loveshow
look at her shirt, we wear the same clothes
under her smile, one thousand rainy rainbows
permanent flowers grow under her nose
she’s my sundress happiness
I’m her love-bead centipede
I’m her goatee devotee
she’s my million dollar dandelion
sundress happiness
love-bead centipede
goatee devotee
million dollar dandelion
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Word of the Day
fa·ce·tious
adjectivePlayfully jocular
Humorous: facetious remarks[French facétieux, from facétie, jest, from Latin facetia, from facetus, witty.]
— fa·ce?tious·ly adverb
— fa·ce?tious·ness noun
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