Only he isn't Bob, he's Owen Gabriel. Born on Wednesday, October 12, 2005 at 1:31 p.m. Owen weighed 8 pounds, 5 ounces and was 20.5" long. Imagine what his weight would have (could have) been if he had made it to his due date which is October 19. The doctor said Owen probably would have been close to 9 pounds. I am so glad he decided to come a week early. I was so ready for him to be born, as Jeffy and people I work with can attest to. The last few weeks were pretty miserable. I was big and majorly uncomfortable.
The basics for now (more later when he's not so hungry...) We went to see the OB on Monday afternoon, he did a pelvic and was at 2-3 cm. He told me he "moved some things around in there" and not to be worried if I started bleeding. He also told me that it may have been enough to put me into labor. Well, my contractions changed after we left his office on Monday night. I was really uncomfortable on Tuesday during the day at work. I even considered calling Jeffy and having him come get me. I got home, crashed on the couch, and realized that my contractions were starting to come quite quickly and they were more uncomfortable than ever before. By about 5:30, I knew I was in labor and that we needed to start timing the contractions. I finished packing my suitcase - there were things that I hadn't put in yet because I was using them between when I packed it initially and when we went to the hospital. Jeffy had dinner going (it came with us on paper plates, I didn't eat - wasn't hungry). We got there about 7:00 on Tuesday night and got a bed in the triage area of L & D where they monitored me for a little bit to see if I really was in labor. The nurse wasn't sure so she told us she wanted me to walk for about an hour to see if it made any changes in my cervix. As she finished telling us the game plan, the plan got changed. My water broke. I was staying.
Labor was a lot harder than I expeted. I stayed on top of things and my breathing worked for a few hours. THen the back labor set in. I couldn't deal with it anymore (especially after being stalled at 5 cm for four hours) so Iasked for drugs. There was only one problem. There was just one anesthesiologist available in the middle of the night and he was in on three c-sections. I was low woman on the totem pole. The systemic drugs they gave me through the I.V. worked for a couple of contractions, then didn't do any good. I finally got my epidural at 8:00 a.m., was ready to push by 10, pushed for two hours with very little progress. Luckily, I was able to wait and rest (drugs are good!) from about noon until about one when my OB came in. He offered me two options: push some more and see what happened, or go with a vaccuum assist. I took door number two. Good thing too, because turns out Owen was stuck and all the pushing in the world wouldn't have budged him. So, for 15-30 minutes I pushed like nothing else and the OB pulled. Owen finally his debut, daddy calling it (it's a boy! I saw the outdoor plumbing and thought, "That's a scrotum!") They layed him on my chest (he was so warm!) and I fell in love with another man.
I'll post pictures after I feed him.
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Owen's Growning Vocabulary
Spoken words:
mama, dada, mommy, daddy, max, kitty, cat, dog, all done, gramma, papa, dude, please, bye-bye, hi, hello, hi there, water, hot dog, night-night, there, right there, book, read, truck, Isabella, Katie, Greggy, Mikey, Austin, Scott, Dan, Cissy, Nick, pbj, milk, (ba)nana, apple, baby, belly button (sounds like baby...), Wiggles, wake up Jeff! (really unintelligible, but he's consistent in what he says so...), ahoy, uh-oh, potty, uh-huh, no, diaper, yippee!!, teddy, choo-choo, car/truck sound, yummy-yummy (numma-numma), did it!, do it, more, that, two, three, bubbles, fishie, la-la-la, backpack, duck, ball, wipes, max, hat, eat, bear, this, a, the
and the list keeps growing...
Animal Sounds:
dog (different sounds for big and little dogs!), cat, cow, horse, sheep, duck (though he sometimes confuses it with a rooster...), rooster, snake, monkey, elephant, tiger/lion/bear (anything that roars)
Signs:
eat/food, please, thank you, milk, apple, water, more, fishie, all done
Favorite Songs:
Rock-a-Bye Your Bear (Wiggles song), Hot Potato (Wiggles song), Monkey Dance (Wiggles song), Twinkle Twinkle (can sing "how I wonder" and "up above the"), ABCs (knows "w"), Old MacDonald (sings "E-I-E-I-O" unprompted and will do the animal sounds with prompts)
mama, dada, mommy, daddy, max, kitty, cat, dog, all done, gramma, papa, dude, please, bye-bye, hi, hello, hi there, water, hot dog, night-night, there, right there, book, read, truck, Isabella, Katie, Greggy, Mikey, Austin, Scott, Dan, Cissy, Nick, pbj, milk, (ba)nana, apple, baby, belly button (sounds like baby...), Wiggles, wake up Jeff! (really unintelligible, but he's consistent in what he says so...), ahoy, uh-oh, potty, uh-huh, no, diaper, yippee!!, teddy, choo-choo, car/truck sound, yummy-yummy (numma-numma), did it!, do it, more, that, two, three, bubbles, fishie, la-la-la, backpack, duck, ball, wipes, max, hat, eat, bear, this, a, the
and the list keeps growing...
Animal Sounds:
dog (different sounds for big and little dogs!), cat, cow, horse, sheep, duck (though he sometimes confuses it with a rooster...), rooster, snake, monkey, elephant, tiger/lion/bear (anything that roars)
Signs:
eat/food, please, thank you, milk, apple, water, more, fishie, all done
Favorite Songs:
Rock-a-Bye Your Bear (Wiggles song), Hot Potato (Wiggles song), Monkey Dance (Wiggles song), Twinkle Twinkle (can sing "how I wonder" and "up above the"), ABCs (knows "w"), Old MacDonald (sings "E-I-E-I-O" unprompted and will do the animal sounds with prompts)
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