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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!This is the final part (part eight) of the story of the birth of our daughter.
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He leaves, and my wife looks at me with panic [...]
This is part seven of the story of the birth of our daughter.
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The remainder of the day and the whole of the next passes without any significant incident. My younger sister comes up the first night and visits (transit to get her from [...]
I call my parents from the house as I sit in our office uploading the photos of our new daughter to a photo sharing site. I cry and avoid telling them the bulk of the story. I am saddened by the reality that they cannot travel to see their new granddaughter because of my mother’s health. It would be almost two months before my wife was[...]
This is part five of the story of the birth of our daughter.
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Excited, I leave recovery and start toward the waiting room where I know my in-laws are. I decide against it because I figure my wife would want to share this moment with them. (Thankfully, otherwise [...]
This is part four of the story of the birth of our daughter.
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They call me over to the assessment table (where they are giving her an apgar of 9) and encourage me to come see her (through the throngs of people all crowded around my little girl). I approach, [...]
This is part three of the story of the birth of our daughter.
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We talk. We cry. We panic. I try to call a friend of hers who had a c-section the previous December without success. I offer the following: insanity is doing the same thing twice and expecting a different result. [...]
This is part two of the story of the birth of our daughter.
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At around noon they conclude that the baby is R.O.P. (right occipital posterior… don’t ask how I remember things like this; just go with it) which means the baby is facing sideways. Despite a pitocin drip we are [...]
Over the next series of posts, I will share the story of the birth of our daughter. While the eventual outcome was joyous, the path there was somewhat less than ideal. I am not writing this to frighten anyone, or to lament the circumstances. I am writing to let people know that [...]
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