I don’t like the rollercoaster. Please let me get off.
TLDR: Dads – recovery from childbirth is fraught with difficulties. Nothing good comes easy, and kids are no exception. Be honest, be true, be strong.
Pregnancy
Baby makin ain’t for the faint of heart.
P6110873 Uploaded by ‘Scratch’ June 12, 2010 It’s been a long week. Knowing fully that it’s only Thursday should put that into perspective. You see – leaving the hospital is only one small part of a caesarian delivery. For those uninformed, the process is simple. Interrupt natures process, opt to surgically enter via a door [...]
Too Posh to Push
Today is October 12, 2006, and I am now scheduled for a c-section in a couple of hours. Yes I was up early this morning (4 AM) but It wasn’t due to nervousness. Ben decided it was time to get up, and after 45 minutes of ignoring the kicks and jabs, I gave in. Besides, [...]
Scheduling a birthday
We’ve now been through another round of the birth wringer. The metabolic folks, non-stress nurses and sonogram people have provided their input and we have been scheduled for a c-section on the 17th of October. This is a week early for Ben – since his due date was the 24th – but it’s a necessary [...]
NST for the Insulin Impaired
IMGP1299.JPG Originally uploaded by ‘Scratch’. Trials? Hardly. Sure – we’re a little more nervous that perhaps we need to be – but at the end of the day, we’re just making mountains out of foothills. As a gentle nudge from the creator has now put Lin on insulin for the gestational diabetes, we are blessed [...]
Oy Vey
My brain is addled. Maybe it’s from lack of sleep, stress from work, I don’t know, but I think I must be going senile. A lot of women told me that I would get “Baby Head” where I would lose brain cells from being pregnant, but you hear a lot of things when you’re pregnant. [...]
Things I Like (and/or hate) about being pregnant
I love: Feeling special. Not everyone gets to experience this. Adventure. This is all very new and scary, but I wouldn’t trade the experience for anything. Feeling him move and kick inside of me. It is a feeling like none other I can describe, and I take comfort in knowing he’s ok. Decorating. I get [...]
BabyBlog XXVLIIII (or whatever)
Things have been trucking along in the world of “Getting Ready for Baby”. My latest Doctors appointment was perfect, with me still only at 1 pound gained from the beginning! We will be getting 3-D ultrasounds on the weekend of Skeletor, at which time we will be able to see whose nose he has, and [...]
Baby!
IMGP0447.JPG Originally uploaded by ‘Scratch’. Tentatively named Eric – this is the first image of our little bundle of (yeech) joy. Yeah. I hate those saccharine sweet terms too. This is the baby – currently named “Skeletor”. We’re amazed and dazed – utterly blown away and nerve racked. We were 100% certain that we were [...]
May 16th, Ready to meet the Alien?
I now feel like my belly is growing by the day. Every time I catch myself in the mirror, especially after a shower I start to think: Whoa. This is strange, because being only 4 months along, some other people aren’t even showing yet. I’m running out of clothes that fit rapidly, and even other [...]