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The Boonlet was born yesterday evening around 6:30. Boon will be posting details herself sometime soon, but for now -- congratulations to Mom and Baby!
To Baby Boon: and some advice: try to lots and not so much. A happy and well-rested mommy is a Very Good Thing.
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Yay! Finally! Took your time, didn't you? Why do babies get you all excited about their arrival and then wait SO LONG to finally make it? Posts: 2843 | Registered: A Long Time Ago!
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Welcome to the world Boonling! It can seem kind of horrifying sometimes, and will be likely to end in heartbreak, but all and all I think you'll decide that it was worth it.
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I hear the ones who wait the longest are best prepared to face the world. They supposedly eat and sleep better. May just be a story to make the mother feel better tho. Posts: 7050 | Registered: Feb 2004
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Woohoo!! I'm glad everyone is where they're supposed to be and healthy. *grins at Thomas* We love you, even though you're late!! Posts: 6415 | Registered: Jul 2000
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Congratulations for your bouncing baby boy - to the Boon family
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I love you all!
First: Vital stats!
Thomas Russell was born at 6:30 pm on May 22, 2004. He weighed 8 pounds, 4 ounces, and was 20 inches long. He has his father's long fingers and cute little chin and his mother's dimples.
And now...since Thomas doesn't have his own nick yet, I'll let him use mine:
Friday night was a restless one. Dad was working, and Mom was WAY too excited to rest well. Opa (Mom's dad) spent the night so he could watch Brother and Sister while Dad took Mom to the hospital. Well, to make this particular long story short...Mom was ready to go on time Saturday morning, but Daddy just couldn't get moving!
We were supposed to arrive at the hospital at 6am Saturday morning, but we were a little late. "No problem!" said the nurses while they checked Mom in.
The nurse did an ultrasound to make sure my head was still in the right place, and checked Mom's cervix. She still hadn't dilated at all! I suppose I could've helped her, but I didn't want to come out! By 6:30, Mom was hooked up to an IV in the labor and delivery room. By 7, I was getting squished every few minutes. I didn't like that too well, but I disliked the monitors pressing against my cocoon even more! I kept kicking them as hard as I could! Mom didn't think it was that funny, but Daddy laughed.
Well, I flat out refused to help Mom at all. I had a great big warm place (with room service, no less!) and I did NOT want to leave.
At 8:30, Mom's doctor came in to check on her. He checked her cervix, and she was only dilated to 2 cm. Then he put something down there by my head and popped my waterbed! The big meanie! Well, I showed them! Before my water drained out, I floated up and turned sideways...but I didn't tell anybody! See...I can be a meanie too!
Mom spent the next several hours in hard labor but her cervix wouldn't dilate. I heard them talking, and her doctor thought her contractions just weren't hard enough since she seemed to be handling them so well. Then, he put this plastic tube in there with me so he could measure her contractions better. Once he did that, he realized that Mom just knows how to breathe really well. Her contractions were more than hard enough to have shoved me out. So then the doctor thought my head was just TOO big for her pelvis. Haha...I had them all fooled! I put my side next to her cervix!
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Can't wait to hear the rest. Incidentally Thomas, my friend Ellie's new baby, Sean, was born the day before you at 9 days early. He was 8lbs 7oz and 22 inches. I'm sure your momma, Boon, was glad you weren't an ounce bigger!
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