Isaac Gabriel Olfelt Born Monday May 9 2011, 6:42am 8lbs 10oz, 20in long Perfect. Bless his heart, it was short this time. 8 hours of suddenly strong contractions, 5 hours in the hospital, 3 minutes of pushing. Latching and nursing like a champ.
Archive for the ‘Pregnancy’ Category
Friday, May 6, 2011
32 and the award for longest labor that didn’t actually result in a baby goes to…
Tuesday, May 3: 5:00pm: At the salon for a last-minute pre-baby highlight and trim, I went to the bathroom and had my bloody show (don’t worry – it’s a wiki link, not an image). Giggled to myself about the timing, then went and got my hairs did. Was having a few attention-grabbing contractions by the [...]
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
33 peeking out to say hello
Not the baby. Me. No peeking on the baby’s part for a very long time, thankyouverymuch. (ok, so like, a month.) A quick update on our ultrasound last Friday: All is well in placenta land. We needed it to measure 3cm away, and it was 13cm. THIRTEEN! The technician quickly saw that everything measured fine, [...]
Thursday, April 7, 2011
23 sheetrock and my placenta
Do you think the title of this post is some sort of cosmic first? I mean, have those words EVER been paired before? And so cavalierly? I guess maybe they have come accidentally stumbling from someone’s lips in a conversation I can’t really imagine? But typed out and previewed then published the whole interwebs to see, has it ever [...]
