I'm here!

At 8:48 am on Wednesday, November 8 2006 I entered the world, weighing 7 lb 15 oz and measuring 20.5 inches. I have mommy's mouth and daddy's eyes, nose, ears and toes!

I'll have to keep this brief because I'm a newborn and all... As soon as I get used to breathing air and eating through my mouth I'll be back with the story of my birth... but for now, why don't you take a look? Aren't I pretty?

I'm engaged!!!


No.... not like that, sillies! I'm only a 38 week old fetus, or a -4 day old baby, however you want to look at it! What I mean is, my head is lodged at the entrance to the birth canal... I have assumed the final position!

In a little over 2 weeks I will graduate from fetusdom to babyhood... if I can wait that long! The walls keep squeezing me... Could they be trying to tell me something?

Note to self: Breathe in, breathe out. Breathe in, breathe out. Breathe in, breathe out. Breathe out, no, wait, breathe in... DOH! Hiccup, hiccup, hiccup, hiccup....

Well, it's more or less official. I will enter the world on November 8, 2006. Exact time TBA.

Daddy and I have a new game. He pokes around until he finds my little foot. Then I move it somewhere else and he has to poke around until he finds it again, and then I move it again...

What a month it's been...

Mommy and Daddy decided they should move out of their studio apartment and into a bigger place so that I could have a room for all of the cute baby presents people have been buying for me every since I was a little fava bean. Mommy and Daddy say it's a nice place, but they had some problems in the beginning because the carpet was destroyed by cats and the previous tenants disappeared into thin air, leaving all their stuff behind. Mommy and Daddy were homeless for a few weeks until they could get it all cleaned up and get some new carpet put in. Now Mommy and Daddy are working on my room. Mommy sits on a comfy chair with her feet up and tells Daddy where he should put everything.

I've been trying to do a lot of growing because I'm going to have to come out sooner than we had thought. When Mommy was about 10 weeks pregnant with me the doctor found an 8 cm cyst on her right ovary. While it's not dangerous, it is extremely painful and Mommy hasn't felt very good throughout her whole pregnancy because of it. Poor Mommy. And I didn't even know about it! I finally opened my eyes last week... but by then it was too late! I accidentally kicked it and it started bleeding, which hurt Mommy a lot. It grew to 11 cm... Meanwhile, something told me that I should turn myself upside down now before I got any bigger. But... the cyst is too big and I got stuck, so now I'm laying with my hard little head resting on it and Mommy is in a lot of pain.

Her doctor decided that as soon as I'm ready, I should come out so the cyst can be removed too. So... some time around Halloween I shall be making my much anticipated arrival. Which is I must get back to growing...