Biggest January Ever
I thought my month had peaked with the caucuses and the Yahoo News deal.
I was wrong.
Look who I met yesterday.
Sorry for the low-quality image; Denny has lots of nice shots, but he hasn’t downloaded them yet, and I didn’t bring my camera, so this shot is from the iSight.
It was all a big, sudden rush (literally and figuratively). We weren’t expecting him until February 6, and will all the “first time moms always go late” talk, birth wasn’t even on my radar. Young Bisqui, however, had other plans.
Note: he still doesn’t have a legal name. Choosing a boy name was still on our to-do list. We’re working on it.
Here’s what happened, in not-too-grotesque of detail:
1. My water broke at home on Sunday afternoon around 3.
2. Freaked out, we went to the hospital with no bags packed or anything.
3. It turns out I was only having mild contractions.
4. They gave me until 8 to make real progress.
5. I tried all the tricks, but nothing made any cervical change.
6. They induced me with Pitocin.
7. Labor sucks, big-time.
8. I labored on Pitocin (infamous for the strong and painful contractions it causes) starting at 8.
9. At 3 a.m., I was still only 1 cm dilated.
10. I nearly excreted some kind of masonry.
11. Despite my intentions to do a natural delivery, I thought there was no freaking way I could handle it, given the slow progress.
12. 3 centimeters dilation was the soonest they’d give me an epidural, and one can optimistically hope to dilate a centimeter an hour, so at 5:30 I got one.
13. It was so great.
14. It turns out I had actually dilated from 1 centimeter to 7 centimeters between 3 and 5 a.m. No wonder it was so horrific.
15. We all slept until about 9:30, at which time I was dilated enough to push.
16. I pushed out a baby.
17. After being evaluated by the NICU, he was able to join us in our room, since everything looks great health-wise. He was 6 lbs, 9 oz and 18.5 inches long at birth.
18. I love him so much.
19. So does Denny.
20. I love Denny so much.
21. We are seriously going to have a name for him soon. We have a few leads.
I’ll probably be blogging irregularly for a while, but I’ll check in when I can. Thanks.
Surprise! Congratulations and so many good wishes and oh my gosh oh my gosh. Wow.
Nice to see the ISCA contingent has hopped over to give congratulations. What a beautiful boy!
Yay, Aprille! I’m wishing you guys all the best. Such a sweet looking little boy!
Congratulations to you and Denny! What a cute little guy! I guess he was just so excited to get to meet you and didn’t want to give you any time off posting pics on flickr! 🙂
Congratulations!!!
Congratulations!
Congratulations!!
Congratulations guys! He’s gorgeous. I can’t wait to find out what his name will be.
Congratulations! We are so excited for you all. I am thrilled to tears to think about our little cousins growing up together! Love to you all, Betsy, Jay & ???
Congratulations! Congratulations! Congratulations!!!!! I hope that you are doing well and that you are able to get some sleep.
“Gratulerer”!!! Like they say in Norway!!
What a sweetie!
We think he looks a lot like his dad! 🙂
We’ll be following in your footsteps in a few months!…
Love from Oslo.
Aprille!
We haven’t talked in forever and I live in Austin now but I just found out you had a baby and I just wanted to give you my deepest congragulations!! I’m so excited for you and for Denny and for this lovely child who gets to grow up with such wonderful parents. Happy New Year, in the most transformative way.
Congrats Aprille, Denny and Miles! He is beautiful. Rowan had jaundice at the beginning, too. It is scary. Row was in the Children’s unit for 3 days and then back hone on the Uv pad for another few days. Don’t worry, they come out smart and sassy in the coming months. I send you all big hugs and hope to see you sometime soon. Plan a trip to Chicago? We have all the appropriate gear. (:
Shannon
Ran into Maggie at the grocery store, and she gave me the news.
Great job, guys! 6 pounds, 9 ounces, and a month early. apparently, he was done and wanted to get out on good behavior.
When you’re recuperated, I’d love to see him in person. In the meantime, I’ll have to survive on pictures.
Congratulations – I am so excited for you!
Congrats! That sounds a lot like when we had our little girl, who came a month early herself.
Haven’t visited in a while, and I open the page to that handsome fellow. Congratulations! Great name, btw.