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Today was a Poopy day.

We woke up to gloomy rain coming from the sky and doomy news coming from the radio this morning. Jack is almost potty trained, but not quite, and managed to sol his underwear this morning. Poopy. I...

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We have a number to watch now.

Rachel had her blood taken this past Monday, so that the doctor could monitor her platelet count.  Since low platelets were a symptom of the complications that she had during Jack’s delivery, this...

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Platelet Watch

The results from Rachel’s blood test from last Friday are in: her platelet count was at 126. She had her blood sampled again today. The doctor’s office will call her with the results again tomorrow. If...

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The Plates are still spinning.

No news is good news from Rachel’s doctor.  We weren’t told a number, but we weren’t told that she had to be induced, either.   So she’s going in for another blood test on Friday. On a completely...

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Bagged and Tagged.

Rejoice! I have retroactively applied logical categories and emotional tags on all the posts for this blog. At this moment, here are the top three of each: Categories: 1. Reality – 120 posts 2....

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Six new Banners!

Since I’ve been refreshing this site, I noticed that all the banner pictures are at least a year old, so I just added six more from late 2008. If you want to see them, you’ll just have to reload the...

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Tomorrow is D-day!

…and “D” is for daughter! The doctor scheduled our induction for 5am. [journalist voice] And we will be covering it live and exclusively right here, so tune in bright and early. [end journalist voice]

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Here we go…

We have arrived at Lexington Medical Center, and Rachel has changed onto her hospital gown. The room is a lot bigger than last time.

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The Doctor is IN.

He said Rachel’s platelets were at 128, so that’s good. The next thing they’ll do is give her some Pitocin and make Rachel’s water break.

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The DOULA is in.

Which is different from last time, when things were so weird and fast that the doula never saw us. The internal sensors were put in and are showing some mild contractions, but Rachel isn’t feeling very...

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(The geek is in, too)

Per grandmotherly request, the time is now shown on each post. I was pleasantly surprised that I found the WordPress syntax to make that change, and I was pleasantly unsurprised that it was so easy to...

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Slight progress.

Contractions are about four minutes apart, and Rachel is as cool as a cucumber. The only thing bothering at the moment is that the Fox News Channel keeps going back to covering today’s free breakfast...

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Getting closer.

Contractions are about two or three minutes apart now, and Rachel is actually finding it more comfortable to stand up.

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More.

The contractions are more regular (about every 2.5 minutes) and more intense now. Rachel is starting to do her Lamaze breathing. She is also eating a red popsicle.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY NORA!

Wow, that was fast! She only took about five minutes to go from seven to ten cm dilation. And she only had to push twice! Baby Nora was born at 12:11pm. Praise God from whom all blessings flow.

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Flowers!

Rachel’s folks sent these flowers. Check out the Bible verse for a laugh.

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Not Mom W.

I was trying out the new facial recognition feature on iPhoto, and practically fell out of my chair giggling when I saw this:

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A bad day.

This was my first day back to work after Nora was born. I went to an associate’s desk to catch up, and he asked me if I had heard about the All Hands meeting that was held the other day. Another one?...

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A very, very bad day for Rachel’s family.

I got an unusual call this morning on my cellphone for Rachel’s Dad, who was visiting Baby Nora for the first time with Rachel’s Mom and little brother Nik. I handed the phone off to my father-in-law...

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Baby Nora gave her daddy an early birthday present!

She slept through the night for the first time last night!

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