We are naming her Callista Skye, and I am ready to leap out of my skin with nervousness. Please take the collective intelligence and goodwill of Hatrack and send a little towards my general direction...
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Congratulations and good luck with the delivery! All my prayers and thoughts for a happy and healthy Momma and Baby!
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Congratulations and good luck. I'm not familiar with the name "Callista" but is sounds pretty. However, I am familiar with the Isle of Skye. I think that is a lovely choice of names!
I'll take the time to remember your labors tomorrow. Let us know how it goes.
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"due to deliver" - is labor being induced or is today simply the date that the doctors say that she's anticipated to arrive? Either way, you've got lots of happy thoughts and welcoming wishes coming from here.
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Ah, wondrous! She is beautiful and wise and brilliant. (I can tell -- I've been trained to assess these sorts of things. ) Hope you and Mrs Alucard are well, too.
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I wonder if ...dracula babies have photographic images. Maybe that's something they grow out of as they become teenagers. :wink:
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Congratulations Alucard! I'm sorry I didn't see this thread earlier. I hope that mother and baby had an easy delivery and are resting blissfully.
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Congradulations Alucard! Here's hoping that the birthing of your child was easy, that she has all of her limbs and fingers and toes....and that you do as well.
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Callista Skye, what a beautiful name! I hope you have a healthy, happy baby, and that Mrs. Alucard is healthy and has an easy delivery. Posts: 6316 | Registered: Jun 2003
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OK. Where to start? The beginning, I guess.
My wife was due July 31st. She had gone to the doctor a few weeks ago and was dilated 2cm. He explained that usually he would expect her to deliver within a week, tops. That would have been July 25th, a week earlier than her projected due date. Her ultrasound also indicated the baby was at least 7 lbs and that she was about 2 days ahead of her due date.
So basically, we expected a baby anywhere between the 25th and the 29th...and nothing happened. Until the 31st at about 2:20 in the morning.
She awoke suddenly and told me that this was it. While she was using the bathroom and getting dressed, I woke our 9-year-old son and he and I got ready as well. I called the answering service and told them we were on our way, that contractions were 5 minutes apart, and that we were 30 minutes out from the hospital. By the time we got the car loaded and my wife got dressed, contractions were 4 minutes apart
(tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick...)
I fired up the car and off we were at precisely 2:53AM. I ran every red light in town (after stopping at each of them and looking both ways, then running them), and at one point, my wife said, "Just put the high beams on and GO!!!!".
I did.
We were going about 75MPH and were getting very close. As we arrived, I dropped off my wife at the emergency entrance and my son and I parked the car as a security guard rolled up a wheelchair and loaded her. Her water broke down the hall, and the poor guard was pushing her so slowly that my son and I caught up with him.
They got her in a room, had her change, and rushed to put an IV in. They started a bag of saline and a penicillin piggyback. Neither of them had much of a chance to get into her, even though they were running wide open. She was in severe pain, at least 6cm dilated, and asked for an epidural. We found out afterward that labwork has to be drawn and examined prior to an epidural, but she received an IV injection of Stadol, which is like morphine.
Less than 10 minutes later, she screamed to the doctor that the baby was coming. She was beginning to panic, and told everyone that things were getting out of control. At that point, the doctor and the nurse grabbed her and told her to breathe. She screamed back that this baby was coming RIGHT NOW!!!
And it did. No pushing, no breathing, no nothing. I simply stood there with my hand in my wifes' white-knucked hand, and the baby just came. Just like that.
It was a miracle. Even after seeing this twice before, there was nothing short of miraculous about the way this one entered the world.
Then I watched as my poor wife nearly slid into shock from the pain, excitement, stress, and all the other things her mind and body were going through. But she stayed awake, and she recovered beautifully.
She delivered at 3:51AM, just shy of an hour before we left our garage. Take into account the 25-minute drive time and you can imagine the chaos and panic that ensued.
Callista Skye was 8 lbs, 0 oz and 21 inches long. She had the most striking dark brown hair on here head. Just enough to look stylish. Everyone remarked at how clear her skin looked and how beautiful she was.
I got them both home on Tuesday, and we are all nearly settled in. Everyone is healthy and happy, and we feel that we are blessed and maybe a bit lucky as well. Things could have gone much, much worse.
Lastly, I apologize for all the drama and late response, but I have been whooped. I thank you all and believe that the good that Hatrack was hoping and praying for really did help.
Thanks again, and expect many late-night posts as myself and my new computer buddy stay up all night together.
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quote:Lastly, I apologize for all the drama and late response, but I have been whooped. I thank you all and believe that the good that Hatrack was hoping and praying for really did help.
No need to apologize - we understand. As long as you get the pictures up. Now.
Glad things went well. Hope mom and baby are getting lots of rest and doing well.
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Not to sound dimwitted, but do I email the pic to the moderator of Foobonic? And who is moderating, if I am correct in my assumption, Dag???
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I have no idea - I never used foobonic. I doubt it will take long for someone to fill you in, though.
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Wishing you all well, Alucard . . . I actually got tears in my eyes as I read of Callista Skye's arrival!
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Congratulations to you and your wife on youre new baby girl!! Sounds like quite an adventure.
Oh - I'm the Hatrack mod for foobonic, so you can email me the pictures (or send them to hatrack at foobonic dot com) and I can put them up (the server's been acting strangely lately, so they may not be put up immediately, but I will get them up as soon as I possibly can). Posts: 5879 | Registered: Apr 2001
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(yes, this deliver sounds just like my second child's delivery -- including the 80 mph, flashers on and everything. At the hospital at 7:50, born at 8:05). Actually that usually makes for a pretty good recovery -- you aren't so exhausted.
I will send a couple of pics to hatrack@fooboonic.com right now...
No hurry on posting them. But please let me know when you have them up and a link would be greatly appreciated!
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Oh she is going to be a heartbreaker!!! Indy looks thrilled... NOT! Congrats to everyone and welcome to the world, little missy
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Truth be told, the kids were watching TV while the photo was taken. That explains the blank looks. On the close-up of Callista, you can still see the optic boogey gunk on her right eye if you look hard...
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Where are my manners? Ludosti, a very appreciative thank you for taking the time to post our family in the Hatrack album!
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