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Bathtub
This post is part of a series telling Teo’s birth story. Click here to start at the beginning. I don’t think I knew what a “natural birth” was until it was almost over with. In terms I suppose only a man would use, a natural birth meant that the doctors and midwives left us alone [...]
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Delivery Room
This post is part of a series telling Teo’s birth story. Click here to start at the beginning. I went downstairs to check April into the hospital, and when I got back to the delivery room, I found the doctor and the midwives chatting on the couches in the small waiting room outside. I felt [...]
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Taxi
I will be telling Teo’s birth story over the next few days. Let’s begin with the taxi ride to the hospital… Taxi by Daquella manera. I didn’t say anything to the taxi driver about my wife being in labor when we climbed in the back seat of his car, but when I told him to [...]
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It’s a BOY!
SATURDAY6pm we went for a walk8:45pm we called the midwife10:20pm we called the midwife again10:30pm we left for the hospital (see blog post)11:10pm we checked into the hospital (see blog post) SUNDAY12:00am April labored on a yoga ball12:30 April moved to the bathtub for a water birth1:35am Teo was born11:20am Alleke met her baby brother6:00pm [...]
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Forgive me if I’m a little scattered. I didn’t sleep very much last night…
Yesterday Encarna came to the hospital to hold the baby so April could take a nap and I could walk home to pick up a few things. I didn’t have much time at home, maybe thirty minutes, but I did grab a few DVDs off the shelf next to the TV. Even though we had [...]
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It’s a Girl!
You all owe me big time, you realize, because in order to get this blog post online I had to… a) give up holding my little girl to type on the computer (although she is sitting right next to me on the couch in our hospital room looking irresistibly cute. I just can’t get enough [...]
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