Sarah
 

Hey all,

I just wanted to check in, and let you know that my daughter was born nearly 4 hours ago, at 10:55 CST on November 7th. She was 20 1/2 inches long, and 8 pounds, 9 ounces.

I haven't been on much lately, 'cause I'm trying to cut back on my computer use at the moment. But I'll keep in touch, and maybe I can get some pictures on here pretty soon.

That's fantastic Juju! Congratulations! Best wishes to you, Kathy and new Sarah.

It's a good thing.

Hail to the Princess of Juju.
Congrats to the King and Queen.:D

Heartiest of congrats. Wonderful name.

Wonderful news juju!

WooooHooooooooo!!!

I bet at first you were :rar: as you cursed the responsible alpha male but then quickly :blush: before :D as soon as you laid eyes on the li'l :angel: !!

But, get used to not getting much of :zzz:



:) !!! Congratulations !!! :)

Ahhh congrats.... as they say, life will never be the same again. (I hope you never have he humiliating experience I had this summer, of wanting to go out to dinner, and finding that all three of your regular babysitters were in Europe.)

Congratulations.:beer: We need a new smiley for the occasion.

Was this planned :cool: or a surprise :eek: ?

My advice is catch up on your :zzz: now.


Worst things about having a baby

Changing diapers :turd: .
Cleaning up :vomit:
Not enough :zzz:


Best things about having a baby

Unconditional Love :blush:
Incredibly Cute :angel:
They're not teenagers :rattat:

Congratulations to you and Kathy...hopefully your child won't become a big dork like you. :D

hi, this is my first post here, but i wanted to congratulate you!
hope you enjoy the new boss. :D

well done, old boy!

i have 2 kids, and the best advice i can offer is: do homework about all of the unneeded vaccines thay want to give your new child, and breast feed!

oh, and the diaper geenie is worth it's weight in gold

Sarah Dave Morton, right? :)

Just remember what Furious says in Boyz in tha Hood - any fool with a dick can make a baby, but it takes a real man to be a father.

Oh, and... if she ever sets the carpet on fire in the living room... go easy on her, okay?

Ha, ha, ha...Good one.:thumb:
Welcome to the Cellar, tonksy.:)

Much congrats to the new mother and father...and to you, too, Juju! ;)

Here's a cigar for everyone on me...

Congratulations, Juju!!!

Wow, the nine months went REALLY fast!

Pictures, man, we need pictures!!!

Thanks everyone! :) We just got released from the hospital and are now home. I have some pictures ready, and a couple of them are really good. But we've still got stuff to do here, so I'll post them a little bit later. :)

What's this "we" shit? It's not like you were admitted...unless it was for mental reasons. :)

If he doesn't do the "we" thing ... Mrs. Juju, who held off during delivery from ripping his head off and ejecting placenta down his neck will do so now.

Okay, I'm just going to post these two pictures into this thread. Then, there are two other pictures that I am <i>just</i> going to link to. They are REALLY gross, so don't click on the links unless you expect that. Even though they are gross, though, they're still really interesting pictures.

NSFW pictures:
http://comp.uark.edu/~dmorton/images..._delivery2.jpg
http://comp.uark.edu/~dmorton/images..._delivery3.jpg



SFW pictures:
http://comp.uark.edu/~dmorton/images..._delivery1.jpg

This was taken the day that Kathy delivered.

My mom is a Labor and Delivery nurse with 23 years of experience, so we stayed home until Kathy was dilated 6 centimeters. Once you get there, they put wires and attachments into almost every orifice of your body, so it's much better to stay home as long as it remains safe to do so.

The labor lasted from 4am (CST) on the 7th to 10:55pm on the 7th. The actual "pushing" part only lasted 15 minutes.

http://comp.uark.edu/~dmorton/images..._delivery4.jpg

This is blurry because it's from my cheap digital camera. I have other non-blurry pictures, but the baby looks a lot better now than it did immedately after it was born. even after cleaning it off. On the other hand, maybe the difference in the other pictures is just because of the lighting in the room at the time. Anyway, there she is!

Precious!!! (even the scary fresh out of the womb pics were cool ... was the umbilicus wrapped around her foot, or did that just kinda happen in the delivery?)

Yeah, it was wrapped around her foot when she came out. I think that may be why she remained so high up in the uterous. They had to break out the forceps to pull her out.

Great pics. But man, Mrs. Dallas would have had my head (and probably a couple or three other body parts) on a plate if I'd had a camera in the delivery room that close to her.

AAAAWWWWWWW!!:angel:

The best picture of all of 'em is the first one.

I like babies.

I like looking at other peoples' babies, then going back to my simple life that I can sleep uninterrupted

Man, those pics take me back about 22.5 years. I've got some just about like it, only worse. Or, rather, I should say I *had* some pics like it...they went with the mother. She kept the pictures and I kept the kid. Seems like a fair trade to me.

Congrats again to both of you, Juju. Now, the hard work begins!

BTW...who determined when Kathy was dilated 6 cm before you went to the hospital?? :eek:

My mom. :)

She IS a professional.

:)

More like, "I hope I'm not as retarded as Daddy."

I love children...especially when I can give them back to their parents. ;)

I think it is kind of cool that a substantial portion of Kathy's pre-delivery care could be provided by a family member in the comfort of her own home. Kind of old-timey and altogether a bonding sort of thing!

Did you find it all strange that when YOUR mother was inspecting your wife's cervix that the thought likely going through her head was "My boy's responsible for this ..." (and she was proud of yah for the first time she was thinking that particular thought as there were no spraypainted dogs involved?)

It is more than a little weird. But I really wanted her to get good care, and since neither of them seemed to mind I said I was okay with it.

Congratulations Juju. Beautiful kid.

Well done old chap, looks like one healthy kid. And good choice on the name.

Not to soil the thread, but...

You just know that while she was checking the dilation, she was thinking "Donald put his penis right in here." Yes, to my parents, I still pretend as though I'm a virgin. I know Donald is much the same way. So knowing that she was thinking that, that had to be pretty weird.

The womenfolk are not so obsessed though, especially at times of Great Life Moments and also if they have medical training.

Cute baby! I'm 17 with a 9 month old little girl. I'm a Senior in high school with a, b, and c's no ds or fs here. Whats the baby's name? My daughters name is Gracie.

The name of this thread.

Hey Juju and family, what an nice new little potato. Congrats.

can we get an update?

Heheh... the kid's 7 days old now. juju probably can't walk, much less post, due to the lack of sleep!! :biggrin:

Here's a better picture of her:

http://comp.uark.edu/~dmorton/images/misc/sarah1.jpg


Although I think I'll be exceptionally good at parenting, despite the fact that I have no experience with kids, I'm finding that I simply cannot deal with people who like kids. They piss me off so much with the things they say, even though they mean the comments innocently.

Things like:

"Oh, she's going to have you wrapped around her little finger! Hah hah hah hah!"

Oh, well that's just fucking great. Basically, you're calling me a gullible moron who will be manipulated. Just how is that cute and funny? It's funny that I'm going to be manipulated? I think it's sick.


Today, my wife's step-sister was feeding the baby, and said, "Listen to the sounds she makes when she sucks on that bottle! I'm going to call her piggy from now on! That's her new nickname.. Pig."

She thought it was cute, but I wanted to fucking beat the living shit out of her. I'm sorry she's ruined her own kids' self-esteem, but I'll be damned if I'm going to let her do it to mine.


Despite that fact that I'm inexperieced with kids, though, Sarah seems to take to me very well. I'm the one who can always make her stop crying just by picking her up. So far, what everyone implied would be incredibly difficult is actually amazingly easy. So far, anyway. She doesn't cry all that often. She's what people might call a relatively quiet (or content) baby. My wife and I were much the same when we were babies, so perhaps it's in the genetics?


That's all I can recall for now. I'm pretty livid over the pig thing.. so I apologise if my post seems irrational. :) Everything so far seems to be going great!



Oh, there's one other thing. Before the birth, men kept saying to me, "It will change your life." Then they'd put their hand on my shoulder and look me in the eye meaningfully. Now that she's born, they look at me expectantly and say, "So, do you feel any different??"

Uh, no. It's only been a week. I am the same person. Is there something wrong with me? Is there something I'm <i>supposed</i> to be feeling? Like I'm supposed to just slap my forehead and say "OH! God damnn.. THAT'S the secret of the universe!"

What universal truth have I missed that was supposed to just come to me last Friday like a religous revival? Can I just have some time to bond with my baby please?

And for god's sake, stop coming over to my apartment!!

she's adorable.......i remember those annoying baby people...they'll disappear over time, you'll be okay.

Not to worry, it's a word. To you it has conotations and implications but it doesn't matter to the kid if it's conveyed with affection. :)

Sure it does. When she gets older, she will take it to mean she's ugly, and it will crush her self-esteem.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

dude,
caffeine is NOT a substitute for sleep
you're being just a little twitchy

i called my nephew " eggy" for the first 6 mos, and it just wore off. knew the dad wasnt thrilled by the nickname, so when he stopped looking like and "eggy" i stopped calling him that.

as far as people coming over, they will stop coming as much...and that's when having a baby all to herself can get scary for your wife. ( im assuming it's her 1st too).

keep that in mind.

i call mine knucklehead and lunchbox....but not lunchbox to her face...often *shrugs*

Beautiful child, Juju. Congrats again.

The changes that being a father will bring to your life are *gradual*, not instantly transformative. After some time has passed, you will look back at the person you were and it will all become very clear to you.

You may argue that you would have changed anyway, given the passage of time, and you would...but not in the same way.

And it doesn't end because they grow up. I spent the day in hospital with my 22 year old who had some minor, yet inpatient, surgery today, and was immensely grateful that I was able to devote the whole day to his needs. Unemployment has some unusual benefits.

Silly the secret of the universe is 42, not having a child. ;)

oh my gosh, ju, she is SO adorable. (and i still have a present here to send...rats. send me your snail mail again?!) many congratulations to you and Kathy. kisses to sarah...

:) :) :)

Congrats!

Hey, Dar. I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner. I've just been busy and a bit people'd out! I'll IM you my address. :)

UPDATE:

I am now sick of people. Outside of the internet, every woman I see completely freaks out and does this:

"AAAwwwwwhhh mah gawwwddd leewk at tha BAY-BAYY!!! Isn't hay ceewwwtt?? Cum lewkk!! Ya gatta see tha BAY-BAY! The BAY-BAY! AHhhhhhww!"

Oh my God.

And every single man I meet is like:

"So! How's that baby doin'?"

This question is also irritating, because I don't know how to respond, other than, "Well, mostly, she just lays there."

Of courses, both are very reasonable things to do and say, I suppose. I'm just not used to it is all. :)

Oh, and on a related note!

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/1....ap/index.html

Oh, it gets worse, man. Wait till they see you do something minimally competent in the way of child care in public. They'll freakin' swoon just because you know how to change diaper or carry the kid without dropping her or even just fishing money out of your pocket with one hand while you're holding her in the other.

Or at least that was my experience 8 years ago.

Oh, yeah, some people freak out when they find out daddy is home with the baby...ALONE!

*sigh*

I liked this picture, so I thought I'd post it. :)



http://comp.uark.edu/~dmorton/images/misc/sarah2.JPG