June 26, 2008
Marcus
Our son Marcus was born June 19, 2008. We are terrifically happy and impressed with him and feeling very fortunate.Stats: 9 pounds 8 ounces; 20.75 inches long; full head of darkish hair; 15+centimeter head size; Mama's nose, Daddy's fingers, mouth, and ears; Grandfather's feet.
Short version of birth story: Tried to induce twice (he was post-dates and a large baby), after 24 hours of nothing much happening in second attempt, decided to do a c-section to avoid a 3 or 4 day-long painful induction that would likely result in a c-section anyway. Apgars of 8,9; handed to Daddy very quickly after he was born. No complications so far for me from the surgery. *knock wood*
Behaviors: Eats, pees, poos as expected -- seems to be doing fine with breastfeeding so far. Exhibits practice smiles that are charming. When awake/alert studies things and faces very intently and listens closely so that he always knows where Daddy is in the house. Sleeps very well so far *knock wood* again. Sweet-tempered and mellow. More pictures can be found in this flickr set, and we'll be adding more from time to time, of course.
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June 17, 2008
Quick Update
Meta and Journally:Yes, I am still pregnant. No, I am really, really not happy about it. Yes, comments are broken on this site right now - send email instead. There's a full moon coming, so maybe TheLittleGuy will want to come out to see. If he doesn't, the doctors will probably want to evict him, and none of us really want to start down that path. Sigh. Oh, not that I'll ever have time to write again, but I have much to say about the politics and ideologies of pregnancy and birth. I'm sure the politics and ideologies of parenting will be even more fun. Goodie.
Politics:
Hillary was never going to take it to the convention and all the shrieking ninnies who thought she would destroy the Democratic party in pursuit of her own evil feminine ambitions really need to get over themselves. Barack is not the great progressive savior some seem to think he is, but he'll do - better than most. John McCain is completely unacceptable. I hope that Obama does not choose Webb for VP because Virginia needs to keep a non-insane Senator for a little while longer. Other than that, I don't care who he picks, as long as it's not someone like Hagel or Chafee.
Apocalyptic weather and such:
My spouse's home city is suffering under a 500-year flood. We've had wave after wave of severe thunderstorms here. There have been Metro derailments, houses burning down near friends of ours, water outages with 'boil everything' orders a few miles north of us. It's feeling pretty apocalyptic, I must say.
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