Birth Announcement
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jbaileyThe important thing first:
I'm pleased to announce the birth of our child, Leif Alexander Bailey. Leif is a bio-boy, so we've chosen the male pronoun. He was born at 12:41 (-0500) at the Lasalle hospital by cesarean. Angie is recovering from the surgery. Father is stunned, but has learned how to change a diaper and how to cuddle a newborn to sleep.
(Update: he was born on March 4th. I forgot to put this in the original announcement.)
For those who want it by the numbers: Leif was born 60 hours after the membranes first ruptured (which was significant, but still just a trickle once we saw what water breaking is *really* like, holy crap). After 49 hours, we transfered from the birthing centre to the hospital since labour had stalled (7cm dilation). Angie was in active labour (4 cm dilated) for 39 hours. At the hospital, after 8 hours, the doctor determined that she was fully dilated and encouraged her to push. Labour had stalled (head was transverse), and so the c-section was ordered.
The result - A healthy baby weighing 4660grams/10 pounds, 4 ounces. 55.5 cm long / 22 inches.
Pictures are up on my flickr account at http://www.flickr.com/photos/jbailey/
We're still not answering emails, calls, or taking visitors yet, really. The messages are being received however, and are much appreciated.
I'm pleased to announce the birth of our child, Leif Alexander Bailey. Leif is a bio-boy, so we've chosen the male pronoun. He was born at 12:41 (-0500) at the Lasalle hospital by cesarean. Angie is recovering from the surgery. Father is stunned, but has learned how to change a diaper and how to cuddle a newborn to sleep.
(Update: he was born on March 4th. I forgot to put this in the original announcement.)
For those who want it by the numbers: Leif was born 60 hours after the membranes first ruptured (which was significant, but still just a trickle once we saw what water breaking is *really* like, holy crap). After 49 hours, we transfered from the birthing centre to the hospital since labour had stalled (7cm dilation). Angie was in active labour (4 cm dilated) for 39 hours. At the hospital, after 8 hours, the doctor determined that she was fully dilated and encouraged her to push. Labour had stalled (head was transverse), and so the c-section was ordered.
The result - A healthy baby weighing 4660grams/10 pounds, 4 ounces. 55.5 cm long / 22 inches.
Pictures are up on my flickr account at http://www.flickr.com/photos/jbailey/
We're still not answering emails, calls, or taking visitors yet, really. The messages are being received however, and are much appreciated.
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Re: Congratulations
Date: 2007-03-06 08:09 am (UTC)Poor Angie, hope she's well and recovering. What a terrible labor!
Anyway, congratulations to both of you, parents, it has been long way since Jeff told me he would be father back in summer :-)
2swisscats purring happily that there is a new baby in this world, and what a beautiful one!
Hugs and kisses to everybody from Switzerland!
Myriam
Re: Congratulations
Date: 2007-05-27 06:03 pm (UTC)