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.
We headed out of the house around 2am, and surprising did not hit any traffic on the way to the hospital. Elise had called ahead, so they had everything all set up for us which was pretty nice. I got to sign a bunch of consent papers for various baby medical activities and got to write down the relationship-to-patient as “fatherâ€, which felt rather odd to do.
Between 3am and 7am, both Elise and I went back to sleep, serenaded by the hollerin’ coming from the neighboring patient’s room. The hollerin’ was shortly thereafter replaced by baby crying; how mysterious.
Now, it is 9:30am, and Elise is getting her IV plugged in, wherever they can locate a vein. Petocin will get started at a very low level, and hopefully that will get the baby machine working.
Water broke, looks like Oliver didn’t want to be induced. We’re off to the hospital to check on things, there may still be a bit of a wait left, though.
Check out Elise’s belly as Oliver practices his breathing moves. Elise is doing the slow breathing, and Oliver is the fast movement in the upper left.
Here’s the full video of the 2d and 3d ultrasounds, which were done in June. Skip to the end to see the 3d part. Video is 46 minutes long, and there is no toe-tapping music.
We came home today to find our household robot celebrating Oliver’s upcoming arrival! How sweet!
From the latest ultrasound, the estimate is that Oliver weighs somewhere between 7lbs 10oz to 9lbs 6oz. Click the pictures below for the full size. Good luck trying to guess what you’re looking at (hint: its a baby).
