It’s a girl!
Little Madison Emilie Elisabeth was born Friday August 18th 2006 @ 4:30pm after an amazingly fast 4 1/2 hours of labor. 19 1/2 in long & 6lb 15oz, she’s a healthy little beauty. Mom and baby are doing well and we’re all at home now recuperating and getting to know each other.
Needless to say that our stay at the hospital over the week-end was amazing. I highly recommend CPMC if you’re expecting a little one. The nurses were great. We had our private room with a cot for me. They took care of Madison at night so that we could sleep and would bring her back every 3 hours for the feeding. They gave us countless tricks of the trade.
Kelly has mastered breast feeding already and Madison cannot stop eating now. We had our first visit to the pediatrician this morning and everything looks normal. She’s lost weight as all babies do after the birth but now that Kelly is producing milk, Madison is expected to gain back a few oz really fast (which we will check up on this friday).
This is an amazing experience so far. From the moment I started timing Kelly’s contractions at home, the frantic drive to the hospital (I did use the horn a few times :-)), the thought of me passing out the first time I saw a needle going in her hand, the next hours helping Kelly with the breathing, the epidural, me using the relief she got from it to send IMs to my buddies using my sidekick (Yes, Matt it is ok to use a cellphone in the delivery room ;-), the 1/2 hour pushing, the doctor holding a baby in front of me and letting me find out on my own that she was a girl, me cutting the ombilical chord…on and on.
It all happened so fast and here she is now resting in mommy’s arms at home.
Life is beautiful.
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