Olivers Updates

Trying out posting to the blog from my phone.

Here are a few pictures which Bruce took while visiting the hospital and we observed Oliver’s 0th birthday party.

We made it home successfully, Oliver loved the car seat until the very last second when we pulled into the driveway.

Then we had fun introducing the new family member to everyone.  Blu and Oliver get along swimmingly, except Blu isn’t quite sure what to do about loud crying – her current best response is to bark loudly.  We’ll be working on that one…

Dave has been asleep at the wheel, not taking pictures of everyone, but here’s a few of the people that have stopped by over the past two days.

Here’s a bonus picture of mom and baby.

At approx 9:15am, Oliver was born via caesarian.  He’s definitely a whopper at 9lb 13oz, and 21 inches long.  Total labor time was 33 hours, with quite a few hours of pushing, but he just wasn’t going to fit past the pubic bone.

(7:50pm) Contractions are getting more intense, and very regular ever couple minutes.  Dave is now on full-time foot massage and back-rub duty!

No exciting news.  Just lots of waiting around and taking naps.  Elise is having semi-regular contractions, and Oliver just got done with a bout of hiccups.

Update at 3:30pm: I guess the contractions are regular, around 2 minutes apart, which is stellar.