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3... It's the magic number

Well, so much for September! Here's what's happened..

8-14-03

So it's 6:00am and Kerry woke me up saying "something" was happening. Apparently her water broke. I wanted to post to my blog before we left but its down, so I'll paste this later. Need to grab stuff and go to the hospital soon. Keep stopping to pray every couple minutes, like vain repetition will help. Helps me anyway.

8-15-03

Long night. Here's a rundown of basically what happened:
5:30 - Water broke. Just a trickle. Kerry was uncertain about labor.
9:30 - Arrival at Women's East. Minor contractions on way to hospital. Nurse checked fluid and confirmed baby. 2.5cm dilated.
1:30 - Contractions much stronger. Still stuck in exam room.
3:30 - Finally get into nice room. Last contractions before epidural were "rough."
3:45 - Epidural. 6cm.
3:46 - Relief.
4:00 - Dr. Brody arrived. 9cm. Almost time to push.
5:00 - Setup room. Start pushing.
6:00 - Jackson is crooked, needs to line up correctly, head is stuck above the pubic bone.
7:00 - Head is crowning, he's close!
7:15 - A few big pushes and Jackson Christopher comes bursting forth! Daddy cuts the cord, Moms gets a couple stitches (he had a big head) and the boy weighs in at 8lbs 1oz, measures 20in. long.
7:25 - Grandparents rush in, lots of pictures.

Lots of stuff we could include but that will do for now. Here's a few of the funnier details.

After pushing with the nurse and doc in the room, when it was delivery time about 5 more nurses caming tumbling in like clowns from a tiny car. Who were all these people?

Kerry can be quoted as saying, "He needs to come out!" "Get him out of me!" and "Oooh, Ooooh!"

Our main nurse for the day had to have been this lady from Strangers with Candy and somehow I think our doctor turned into Dr. Zoidberg.

After nursing him they wisked him away to the nursery and we could a few minutes sleep, then a couple hours in between feedings.

Pretty tired this morning but awake now.

Wish the hospital had Wi-Fi, or at least a network jack, but only dialup is available.

Oh yeah, out of three digital cameras, 1 malfunctioned, 1 batt died, and the other was a lifesaver. Now neither of the working models want to connect to my laptop.

So, you heard it here first. Tons pf pics (served off my UTC account) coming soon!

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