So tonight we give Abigail her first bath at home. (And a first bath picture still to be posted.) However, I thought I’d share the after-bath funny.
So there I was, wrapping her up in a towel. I picked her up to cuddle her and get her warmed up (and calmed down from all the crying) when I hear a big wet-sounding flatulence come from her hind end. We’re laughing and preparing to unravel the towel to check her when Lisa exclaims “She’s dripping!” She had more than had a wet one, it was a full blow out! Not only had it filled the towel under her bottom, it soaked through the towel and was dripping on me, on the floor and whatever else was under her. So I quickly moved her over the bathtub we had just pulled her from. After a moment, we put her right back on the counter to clean her up.
The whole episode gave new meaning tothe phrase ‘air dry.’
So it’s Sunday night and I’m enjoying a rip roaring good NHL playoff game where San Jose and Dallas go into a fourth overtime. The game finally ends at 1:30am and it’s lights out. Fast forward 3.5 hours and Lisa’s waking me up… I think I’m in labour. Well, if that’s not the statement that wakes you up quick!
How far apart, asks I.
About 6-8 minutes. Lisa replies. It started at 3am, but I let you sleep for a bit. (Good thing too, darned quadruple overtime, I’m thinking now.) So up I get whilst asking her all the necessary questions to determine what our timeframe looks like. I made sure to have some breakfast else I end up passed out due to lack of nourishment later on if it goes too long. By 6:15am, Lisa’s Mom was at the house to stay while Jonathan woke up. We were on our way and at the hospital by 6:30.
Up to triage we go and through the necessary tests. Lisa’s doing great, what a trooper! By 7:30, she’s checked and found to be 6cm. We’re quickly scooted out of triage and into the private birthing room. As we get there, Lisa’s already asking for our attending nurse to tell her that she’s ready for her epideral.
No problem, they say. But first we need to take some more readings and do the necessary bloodwork before we can give it. 8:30am, bloodwork is sent away and preparatory IV is started. By 8:50, the contractions start getting a bit more intense and at 8:58, Lisa says that she’s got the urge to push. So call the nurses station, we do and our attending is there in under a minute. At 9:00, she’s checked and found to be fully dialated and bulging. So the nurse makes the call to have the doctor come down. As she’s doing that, the water goes. At 9:01, the doctor comes in and says, okay, give us two seconds to get set up and then you can push.
At the point, Lisa’s doing everything she can NOT to push, but this baby wants outta there now! Finally, the doctor says to go ahead and after about 4 pushes, at 9:04am on May 5, 2008, Abigail Renna Isabella entered the world! She weighs in at 7lbs 6.3oz and 21 inches long.
The rest of the morning was a blur of activity, cleaning, checking, feeding, pooping…
Then I left to go get Jonathan. At just after 1pm, I brought him up to see his baby sister. I think he thought it was really neat. We had given him a little stuffed lamb to give to Abigail and just after meeting her, he dove into his backpack to bring it out. He was tickled pink to get to hold her on his lap and near the end of his visit was asking to do it again.
After Jonathan and I left, I continued a tradition that started when I was brought to meet my sister for the first time. I took Jonathan out to McDonalds.
At the time of this writing, all is well with baby and Mommy. They are resting and now I go that way too. (I’d have gotten this done earlier, but it took Jonathan until just after 9pm to fall asleep.)
More photos in the gallery.
