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My favorite photograph from today's visit

At Last!!!

After a long labour our beautiful daughter, Aeryn, was born by Caesarean at 11:00am this morning weighing 10lbs and 2oz

Mother and baby are well and happy, despite Abby's needing an hour of surgery after the birth.

More pics will be on Flickr soon, but here's one to be going on with.

Incomiiing!

Abby was admitted to the Southern General today at 4pm to be induced.

When I left the hospital at 8 she felt like she was beginning to get period-like pains, so all seems to be progressing according to plan.

Leaving her in the place on her own,scared & beginning to be sore, was not fun and is not really a good way to be handling these things IMHO, but them's the rules.

By the time I next post we should be parents.

Make a fireball shooter - Boing Boing

Make a fireball shooter - Boing Boing


This looks like fun. Has to be a practical application for stage I can find for this.

How to hack RFID-enabled credit cards for $8 - Boing Boing TV

How to hack RFID-enabled credit cards for $8 - Boing Boing TV

And they said Chip & Pin were more secure.

We didn't believe them, but they said it.

Still waiting

No sign of the baby yet.

Fortunately the senior midwfe came into our 'consultant' appointment today & stopped the Student from giving Abby a Membrane Sweep. Essentially, they swirl a finger around the neck of the womb in the hope that it mixes up some hormones and stimulates labour. Except that you're only supposed to do it if the baby's head's engaged. Doing it now could have encouraged a breach birth.



Also, there's no sign of a start-date for the library, either. I'm getting rather pissed off now, especially having been summoned to fill in forms for an 'accelerated start'. Seems they can't do anything until they receive a copy of my new Disclosure form. I've had mine for a fortnight, so I don't know what's happened to theirs!