Pictures! (Cancel the lynch mob)

We have gotten a lot of hate mail (actually just two admonishing phone calls) about picture updates. Sorry for the long delay!
As a quick update Curtis had his 3 day (since he left the hospital) visit and it went extremely well, Curtis is very healthy and it seems he has stopped loosing weight already, he is at 7 pounds 12 ounces (he was at 7 pounds 11 ounces when he left the hospital.) All of his bodily functions are in full force which is both a relief and a mess to clean up. Ruth just left today so we are on our own for a bit but I think we are slowly figuring it out. I really don't like bath time though. Stephanie is doing well we are even managing to get quite a bit of sleep and with naps during the day I would even say we are getting enough sleep, maybe we're slackers. Curtis got to go to the beach yesterday but never even glimpsed the ocean, it was kind of windy so we kept the stroller all closed up and he more or less slept through the whole trip. Anyway you are probably only looking at this post for the pictures so I will stop now.

SUCCESS!!!

We are proud to announce the arrival of Curtis Ashton Sorensen at 1910 standard pacific time. Stephy did great and Curtis looks amazing with a some hair and lots of opening and closing of eyes. He weighs 7 lbs and 15.7 ounces and is perfect in every way. At 20 inches long, he is very proficient at stretching and retracting his arms and legs like a 3 month old. He's very smart, just like his daddy. Right now Jer is learning how to wrap a burrito baby and practicing on his very own child. He is no longer crying as his daddy talks to him of computer graphics and megabytes. Not really, he is speaking the baby language like a true natural. Stephy is a pro and letting all hold her precious baby bundle of joy.
Here is a pic of the Curtis being weighed. Others will be posted later.

Written with the approval from blog author by Auntie Julia

A quick snapshot

Here is a picture of Stephanie right before we THOUGHT we were going to push. We will hopefully get more after (when everybody's cleaned up some.)

re: regression

So it turns out we aren't quite ready, very soon we will be but not just yet.
We'll keep you posted.

Time to start pushing!

Doctor came in and checked, 10 cm, it's time to start pushing. We should expect Curtis in a few hours!
Now the fun starts.

Lucky Seven

There was some concern about progress, things were stuck at 3.5 cm for quite some time. But after the epidural they were able to step up the Pitocen and now POW we're at 7 cm! This is really good because it means we most likely won't have to do a C-section. Hurray!
For those who are interested I am doing well, just a little tired. People complain about hospital food, but no one seems to complain about the price; it's expensive here! Anyway until next time...

OK I can't spell

I posted this blog as fourtyeighthourstillcurtis, with a u in forty, the number four has a u, why not forty?
The two l(owercase L)'s is probably wrong too. oh well. here are all the posts from the wrong blog:

Thank goodness for modern medicine

The eagle (read, epidural) has landed.
Still have a ways to go, but things should go more smoothly now.
We switched nurses (day shift) also.
As a side note, our nurse was named Jessi, one of three Jessicas who are nurses here. To further confuse matters Jessi's last name is Judy, thankfully she taped over half of her first name and all of her last name on her name tag, making life easier for all involved.

This might take a while

So it's 5:30 am, I slept pretty much from 3:30 to 5:00. Stephanie is starting to be in a fair amount of pain, and the nurse says we have a while to go. The posts will probably somewhat sporadic for a while, both because this isn't the fun part and because Stephanie "hates that blog" right now.

Late Night: The screaming next door

So, it's 1:00 am and Stephanie seems a little uncomfortable, but the contractions are beginning to start in earnest, although they aren't painful yet. In the next room we heard some nurse not quite frantically trying to get a doctor to come up; it seems a lady came in just about ready to go. A few minutes later some intense screaming. Then more screaming, and finally a baby crying. 30 minutes at the hospital, not bad!

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Prolog: Scaring the Nurses

Well it's 11:35 according to the hospital clock and it turns out Sharp Mary Birch has wireless, so I thought I would start a 48 hour blog to keep everyone updated as Stephanie gets ready to bring Baby Curtis into the world. Here is where things stand so far:
Stephanie can tell everyone that she drove herself to the hospital to have Curtis. Yes, I was in the car, no, she wasn't having contractions but still, how many people can say they drove themselves to the hospital to give birth?

We got to the hospital about 7:30 and got to our room about 8:30, about 9:30 we were settled in with the I.V. (in her hand after 3 or 4 unsuccessful attempts to put it in her arm) and we were left alone for a while.

Soon I was busying myself watching the monitors and noticed that the baby's heart rate had fallen from 138 bpm down to 70 for a while. I asked Stephanie if she was laying flat on her back (you supposed to in her condition) and she shrugged figuring that someone would come in if there was a problem. Then there were beeps for 5 seconds and the head nurse rushed in with three other nurses who politely introduced themselves while thrusting an oxygen mask and other paraphernalia at her. Apparently someone does come if there's a problem.

Very soon all was well with the baby and with a slight delay the induction was begun.

We found out that the process involves a slightly unpleasant procedure to be repeated every 4 hours after which Stephanie has to lie flat for an hour. This will go on all night.

I am going to go to sleep soon, I post again when something new happens.