Congratulations, Julie!
There are two Julies in the commenting friends here at my blog--this is the one without a blog of her own (yet!).
I was at Julie's house on Saturday helping her pack. They bought a house that ended up being more of a fixer-upper than they had thought. Because of the various repairs needed, their move-in date kept getting pushed back until it was just after her due date.
So, by Saturday she was 4 days overdue with her second child (her daughter M just turned two), with a moving date a week away and much left still do be done at both houses. Her DH was doing most of the work on the new house himself, so he was over there most of the time when he wasn't working.
When I left slightly after 3 pm on Saturday, she was still thinking it might be several days before she went into labor.
Halfway through a harvest party that evening her water broke, and just 4 hours later baby boy K was born. Julie and I both had difficult labors and long recoveries with our firstborn (she had hemmorhaging--scary!), but her second sounded much like my labor with M.
I'm looking forward to hearing the whole, detailed birth story. It sounded rather exciting. They left home with contractions 5 minutes apart and I think Julie was already feeling like she wanted to push at that point.
At the hospital, the nurses took forever to get her checked in and were quite leisurely about having her fill out paperwork, etc. A nurse put them in a monitoring room to see if they were ready to be admitted and then left.
After some time, Julie sent her husband to find a nurse because she was worried the baby was going to come right there in the admitting room, and nobody had even checked on their progress yet.
The first time anyone checked her progress was after they finally got her into a delivery room, and by that point she was 8 cm dilated and about 3 contractions away from giving birth. The midwife barely got there in time to catch the baby.
We got a call at 12:30 a.m. to tell us the baby was born, after I'd just been there that afternoon with no sign of an impending baby. Hooray!
Mom and baby are doing great. The baby is absolutely beautiful. At 8 lbs. 9 oz, he is just a bit smaller than Baby E was 3 months ago. She is almost twice his size already. I wish I'd thought to take my digital camera, but Julie's DH took pictures of us all so we'll get copies of those, I'm sure.
Julie and her family will, thankfully, be able to stay with family until their new home is habitable.
I was at Julie's house on Saturday helping her pack. They bought a house that ended up being more of a fixer-upper than they had thought. Because of the various repairs needed, their move-in date kept getting pushed back until it was just after her due date.
So, by Saturday she was 4 days overdue with her second child (her daughter M just turned two), with a moving date a week away and much left still do be done at both houses. Her DH was doing most of the work on the new house himself, so he was over there most of the time when he wasn't working.
When I left slightly after 3 pm on Saturday, she was still thinking it might be several days before she went into labor.
Halfway through a harvest party that evening her water broke, and just 4 hours later baby boy K was born. Julie and I both had difficult labors and long recoveries with our firstborn (she had hemmorhaging--scary!), but her second sounded much like my labor with M.
I'm looking forward to hearing the whole, detailed birth story. It sounded rather exciting. They left home with contractions 5 minutes apart and I think Julie was already feeling like she wanted to push at that point.
At the hospital, the nurses took forever to get her checked in and were quite leisurely about having her fill out paperwork, etc. A nurse put them in a monitoring room to see if they were ready to be admitted and then left.
After some time, Julie sent her husband to find a nurse because she was worried the baby was going to come right there in the admitting room, and nobody had even checked on their progress yet.
The first time anyone checked her progress was after they finally got her into a delivery room, and by that point she was 8 cm dilated and about 3 contractions away from giving birth. The midwife barely got there in time to catch the baby.
We got a call at 12:30 a.m. to tell us the baby was born, after I'd just been there that afternoon with no sign of an impending baby. Hooray!
Mom and baby are doing great. The baby is absolutely beautiful. At 8 lbs. 9 oz, he is just a bit smaller than Baby E was 3 months ago. She is almost twice his size already. I wish I'd thought to take my digital camera, but Julie's DH took pictures of us all so we'll get copies of those, I'm sure.
Julie and her family will, thankfully, be able to stay with family until their new home is habitable.
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Congrats to the mommy and daddy on their new baby boy!
Many congratulations to the happy family and their new addition!
Congratulations!
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