Korben is such a quiet baby.  We are really enjoying getting to know him.  Since we didn’t know until just right before Christmas whether he was going to be a boy or a girl, he kinda got left out of the Christmas gift thing.  I think he was okay with it; he was just swinging [...]

This is my first attempt at adding a WP gallery to a post.  I know there are some duplicates; I was in a rush uploading them and got some of them twice.  Click on a picture to enlarge, then you can use your arrow keys to cycle through them.

Had a visit to the “new” *but our original, with James and Lowell* pediatrician today and I don’t want to talk about it so bug David if you want to know. We’re all home and will all hopefully be okay. Korben goes back on Monday for a re-check. Just pray for the little guy. He [...]

Awesome picture of Korben taken by my brother.

I don’t know when to say that labor actually started… I was 4 cm for weeks and his little (well, huge, actually) head was very low for the same amount of time. In hindsight, I’m very thankful that labor didn’t produce a baby [...]

December 21, 2008, 4:49 AM
8 pounds 15 ounces
20.5 inches
head circumference 14.5 inches (NONE of the hats I made him were big enough!)

no tears (tear as in tearing paper, not tears that you cry)
no drugs (until it came time to deliver the placenta, [...]

This post contains TOO MUCH INFORMATION but I’m not writing it for you. I’m writing it for me, to get it out, because I am depressed and not holding my crap together very well anymore.

I had my 41w6d appointment yesterday and discovered that I was only at 4 cm. The baby was doing awesomely [...]

We get one more appointment before we get shipped off to DOCTORLAND on Monday… probably to chemically induce as soon as humanly possible like the hospital-way of doing things runs… which means an additional $10,000 probably. Sheesh.

Okay, as we stand right now – we are 4 cm dilated but still “firm” – contractions are [...]