Many people have listened to both Geeta and I describe our anxieties about our cat Ophelia. Anyone who has met her and lived to tell realizes this is no saintly feline. Geeta and I have had nightmares about her leaning over the crib, claws out and lips drooling. In the past nine months several solutions [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2006
Nov 14
What, no nausea?
After a protracted labor (without pain meds no less!), John announced to me that we had made a girl! It was the perfect ending to my birth experience, marked by great support from John and midwife Titi.
IÂ am looking forward to raising this exquisite creature but must also mention the simple things that have already [...]
Nov 14
Reina Alessa Gibbs
After 26 hours in the hospital (on the 8th trip, no less), Geeta delivered a beautiful baby girl - Reina Alessa Gibbs.
Born: November 13th at 7:24pm
Weight: 6lbs 1oz
Length: 19 inches
Nov 13
LIVE: From the delivery room
After a long night at the hospital, Geeta is in the delivery room!
We arrived about 5:30pm yesterday evening after a long weekend of labor latent labor and not much sleep. Geeta contracted all through the night, and the morning found her at a glorious 4cm.
After some heavy walking to jump start the morning, the midwife [...]
Nov 10
Taking Back Our Birth
It appears I am in early labor and despite my midwive’s attempts to catastrophize my pregnancy and induce me (7 hospitalizations in all thus far) they have finally backed off and are letting Nature call the shots. Over these past 8 weeks of light duty and then bedrest, my blood pressure has stabilized, Baby Gibbs’ [...]
Nov 07
Girl or Boy Quiz
Geeta just sent me this little app on a site called childbirth.org. Answer a few questions and it will determine whether you are having a boy or girl. The logic may seem a bit flawed, as one question ponders the sex of your baby via which direction you pillow sits on the bed, north or [...]
Nov 06
Happy Due Day!
Today is Geeta’s Due-day, not that Baby understands that or anything. We had some contractions over the weekend but those seem to subside by Sunday. Everyone is still in good spirits, so we are just waiting for the big arrival.
