kind of bruin

After 267 days, a dozen softball games, a season of sand volleyball, flights to New York, Charleston SC, and Mexico, 13 prenatal visits, two showers, a summer, fall and part of winter, Sue and I would like to announce our new Baby Boy, Name TBD Ewan Gregory.

He arrived this morning, January 30 around 8:45 8:41 in the morning.
He weighted 9 lbs and was a little under 20 19.6 inches I think.

We still have a few days in the hospital as Sue recovers from her Cesarean Section. Baby was kind of uncooperative in the whole head first thing and was double footling complete breach. A external version was tried, but was unsuccessful.

Baby and Mother are doing great.

Link to Pictures

Updated with more correct information after talking to the Doctor and figuring out everything.

Our parents came down for the weekend to help paint the nursery. We decided to go with green on the bottom, and blue with some white puffy clouds on the top. We ordered some Classic Pooh border which should come in a few weeks to round out the room. We had enough paint left over so we painted the stairwell and upstairs hallway blue as well.

The girls from Sue’s work trough her a shower tonight. We go a bunch more stuff and once the crib arrives again (hopefully this time dry) and we pick up a glider we should be all set for our little bundle of joy monkey.

Pictures from the weekend and the shower are here…Link

We have officially retired Darcy’s old Galileo Nylabone. The Galileo hurts like hell when she drops it on your foot, but she can not destroy it in a day like most chew toys. As a added bonus feature it’s phallic shape makes it strong.

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Nothing much exciting has been going on, at least with pictures and fun stuff.

We have been to a bunch of baby classes: one on breast feeding (latching is key, and babies are smarter with breast milk), one on car seats (read the manual, and loose objects in the car are dangerous), one on labor and delivery (labor is very long, so stay at home, the hospital does not want you until you have contractions that are every 5 minutes apart, that last 1 minute in duration, and have been going on for an hour, and the labor and delivery rooms have ESPN) and finally one class on 0-3 month child rearing (always sleep on their back and don’t sleep with mom and dad)

We have also been trying to clean the junk room so our parents can come down and paint it pretty cheery colors for the little tyke’s room.

Baby update, here is probably what you were looking for…

Two weeks…and counting. Well we went in for our appointment and baby Reynard/Eliza still has not turned, which leaves us with a full breach baby. The doctor is giving he/she another couple of weeks to turn, if the babe does not turn they are going to try an External Cephalic Version, in which the baby is turned from the outside of the abdomen so that it is in the head down position.
The procedure will be done in the hospital with Sue getting an epidural. If the baby does not turn or something goes wrong, a caesarian section will be performed. If all goes well, Sue will most likely have labor induced, so the baby is not given time to flip itself back into its favored breech position.

Wish us luck. The little bugger was really active today, so maybe it will decide that Sue’’s ribs are not that nice to cuddle with, flip over and come into the world when he/she pleases. Otherwise we may be getting a little one in a couple of weeks.

Here is a drawing i did a while ago…It’s from this picture.