Benjamin David Salmoiraghi

February 8, 2008
6:04 p.m. EST
7lbs, 15oz
20.5" length

Update on "Amanda and the Great Pregnancy!"

Well, here is the story so far on Amanda and the birthing process on which she is participating on:

Wednesday
1855L.
Starts having contractions that are 30-60 seconds in length and 5 minutes apart. Darn right we got excited.

They last into late evening and sporadic in morning. Intensisty levels on scLe 1-10 are as high as a 6 at times.

Thursday
1030L.
She decides to get checked out to see what is our status with the actual labor. Go to base hospital and get turned into a cyborg for 20 minutes of monitoring. Then awesome Nidwife arrives.

Midwife does checkup; says Amanda is 1 cm dialated, 80% efaced (cervix ready for baby) and she could feel baby's head, meaning he is ready - just waiting for her body to be ready.

So, contractions were her body going into preperations for tv 'big game'

Says baby can be here tomorrow (Friday) or mid-next week. We go home :-)

Friday.

Mother-in-law is flying in.


More to come as it happens...


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