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just adorable. |
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Thanks, ya'll. :) |
Congrats! |
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YAY! you did it! i'm so happy for you and your family. Ada is a very pretty baby. she looks so impossibly tiny. what did she weigh? how did labor and delivery go? |
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it's my fault. it's always my fault. |
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Kidding. I think we all need to pitch in and get droop a computer that actually works. |
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I've been busy, but also wanted to make a detailed post about the birth. I'll be home in a few hours and will post when I get settled. |
but i can still picture antigone, naked on a bear skin rug, with a pacifier in his mouth |
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Ada Susan Elizabeth Barton was born today at 1:30pm at St Paul Hospital in Dallas. Like her parents she started life as a trouble maker. Ada's heart rate was decreasing too much during Marci's contractions. When the doc saw this he headed straight for the OR: Emergency C section. Ada came out with the umbilical cord around her neck. She wasn't in that state for long, though, so no I'll effects. Marci and Ada are healthy and happy. :) Ada had an apgar score of 9 after birth, so there was no apparent ill effects from the umbilical cord. Scary for a bit, but now everything's fine. |
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so her heart rate was decreasing because the cord was around her neck? that's a very good apgar score, from what i understand. how long was Marci in labor before the c section? |
Marci had been in light labor for about 13 hours. Her water broke at 11:15 on the 27th. About an hour after we got to the hospital the doc gave her a topical drug to soften up her cervix. After 8 hours it hadn't done much (no dilation) and the contractions were still light. At that point Marci got pitocin to induce. The contractions got more intense, but she still wouldn't dilate. After the epidural the contractions lessened even more, and then the fireworks started. The baby's heart rate typically drops during contractions. This was happening (as expected) during the entire labor. The problem happened just after the epidural was put in. That was when Ada's heart rate started to crash. It only happened four or five times before I got the nurse. (It was getting progressively worse: 130bpm (normal) to 100, then 90, 80, 70. I got the nurse at 80.) Then the doc put in an internal fetal heart monitor. At that point Ada's heart rate went down to 70 and stayed there, and the C-section was done 15 minutes later. (They were QUICK.) It's my understanding that the heart rate crash was due to the cord around the neck, ya. Marci's water had been broken for 13 hours at that point, and it's not uncommon for the cord to become tangled when there's not a lot of fluid to float around in. The way I see it, Ada had the typical trauma all kids go through with a vaginal birth, only just in another way. She just didn't have to come out looking like a conehead. :) |
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well, i'm happy everything turned out okay. that sounds like a lot to go through. i'm hoping, with the help of a doula, to stay at home as long as possible. i only live 2 miles from the hospital, so maybe i can go there just before it's time to push her out. they say you have to stay in the hospital for 2-3 days, and i can understand why, with the blood and the breast feeding and the baby's health, and all. but how boring! anyway, post more pictures, please. |
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so cute! a sleeper, you are lucky. i still can't see the movies. |
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yes. |
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how's it going so far? tell me everything. |
Ada just started grasping things today. I've got a green squid plush toy that she seems to like, and she's been throwing her arm at it and opening her hand at the same time. She definitely recognizes Marci and I'm pretty sure she recognizes me. She had an acne breakout this morning. Babies' skin is very sensitive, and she's had mild acne since birth, but this was a bit more dramatic. Nothing out of the ordinary, though. There's more, bit it involves poop. |
She is a cutie. Those first days really go by in a blur, and a lot of it involves poop. It's amazing how much of it they can store in those little bodies of theirs. |
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Dr. Pepper must have grotesquely huge hands that drag behind him on the ground when walks. |
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we're having a keg at my daughter's first birthday party. but whatever. |
i think this is key problem with kids. they make these dramatic leaps from year to year, and it reminds you of how quickly time now passes. |
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And, not to brag, but she's smart as hell. She had object persistence awareness about three months earlier than average. Just now, while Marci was putting her to bed, she turned her back for a second and Ada crawled across the entire house, down one hallway, through two doorways, and half way up one set of stairs because she knew I was still in the den and I guess wanted to see me before going to bed. Frikkin' genius baby. I was feeding her this morning and she was putting the lid back on the food jar, flipping it over the right way so it would screw on correctly. And last week, while I was putting the batteries back in a toy, she crawled up, grabbed the lid to the battery compartment, and put it over the batteries when I was done. I hadn't shown her that, she just watched me and did it herself. Now, when she plays with the toy, she picks it up and slams it on the floor so the batteries come out. :) We're also teaching her the names of things. She knows the names of 2 out of 3 of our pets. She knows the names of all four grandparents. She knows my uncle's name. Granted, she can't say their names, but we say, "Where's grandpa Howard" and she looks at him and sometimes points. OK, so I am babble bragging here. Can't help it. :) |
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gosh that first year went by fast! she is so adorable, her hair is starting to come in nicely and get a little long and that was back in July. hurry and post new photos! |