Tag: Noah

Well, all of the waiting is over. We had Noah on Wednesday October 3rd and 12:01 in the morning. That’s just after midnight. He weighed 7 pounds and 1 ounce and was 20 inches long.

He’s got long legs and arms, and big feet. He really is the cutest thing though. He’s a great eater already, and we’re having no troubles breast feeding him. Both he and Sharon are doing fine. We’ll be bringing him home Friday morning.

Sharon was having contractions as early as Monday afternoon, and after one false trip Monday night, and a lot of contractions Tuesday, we went in Tuesday night around 7:00. After all that, it only took 5 hours to get him out, and only 40 minutes of that was pushing. Sharon did great!

Well, I have to get back to the hospital and check on Sharon and Noah. Be sure to check out the new pictures in Noah’s album, and read Sharon’s diary entry on 9/24 to get some sense of our frustrations leading up to this.

We’ll get more pictures and stuff up once we get back home. Tell all your friends to come see our cute baby! 🙂

Nate

 

Well, as you can see because I’m writing this diary entry on the 24^th, Noah decided not to come early or on time this weekend. How frustrating! I want so much to meet the little guy. Nate is equally as anxious.

I do have to say, I still feel pretty good. I’m not sure how I’m supposed to be feeling though. I cleaned the entire house on Saturday and baked some casseroles and cookies on Sunday. I’m still doing my exercise regimen thinking that somehow it will help start labor and get through it faster. Today was my first day off work and let me tell you , I was bored out of my mind. I have a doctor appt. tomorrow afternoon and I’m going to have to tell the M.D. it’s all her fault that I’m past my due date now. She said she thought I would go this weekend. Bah.

Nate’s birthday is today and he was hoping that Noah would make an appearance. Noah just has to have his own birthday. I can tell he’s going to be stubborn already.

That’s the update for now. No pains, no nothing, just lots of anxiety and waiting. Rest assured that pictures will be posted on this website as soon as we get home from the hospital!

Yeah! We finally had the sonogram today! It was pretty neat to finally see the baby’s arms, legs, head, face, spine, you know, all those body parts. Everything was so clear.

We also decided to find out the sex of the baby and it’s a boy. I’m not sure how the sonographer figured it out but she was pretty sure of it so I’ll accept her word for it. We’ve decided to name him Noah James.

Mom is feeling great- not even looking or feeling pregnant. I hope this lasts for the entire pregnancy! I realize the looking part probably won’t last but I’m enjoying not having to wear maternity clothes just yet. Some of those clothes aren’t too becoming.

Well, that’s all for my diary entry. Hope you’re all having a wonderful spring. It’s hot out here in Kansas.

Sharon (aka: mom)

God must have decided that Nate and I were getting to set in our ways. Wow, we’re having a baby! I can’t believe it! I still don’t look or even feel the least bit pregnant besides being hungry at all hours of the day. I’m starting on my 13^th week so maybe I’ll start showing here pretty soon.

It’s excited to think about but exhausting to realize all that has to be done before the baby arrives. We should have a busy summer ahead of us finishing a room in the basement so we can move the office downstairs and put the baby’s room upstairs on the main living level. The baby won’t actually be in that room much but we sure won’t have time to work on the baby’s room after the arrival.

As for finding out what the sex of the baby is, I think we’re going to find out. Maybe we’ll wait with our second child but the first one is just too exciting to not know.

Well, that’s all for now. Gotta go, I’m hungry:)

Sharon (aka: mom)

 

There, I said it. I still can’t believe it, but I said it. We are having a baby. Wow, it gets easier each time. B-A-B-Y. Wow, easy!
D-A-D . . . oh my gosh, what have I gotten myself into. OK, calm down. You can do this. It’s just a small human. A small human that is going to learn half of all it knows from you. A small human that will look to you for all the answers; look to you to know how to act, how to throw a ball, how to play the trombone. . . . I need to sit down.

That’s pretty much what I went through when Sharon, my wife, told me that she was pregnant. It just takes awhile for something like that to sink in. Sure you know it will happen someday, but you’re just never prepared. So lately, I’ve been shopping for strollers and playpens and anything and everything else that this new baby will need. We’re only in our 12^th week, but it all seems to be coming so fast. There is so much to do. I need to repaint the office as the baby’s room, move my office into the basement, finish a room in the basement for my office. Maybe that should be in reverse order.

I really am excited about this. The longer I think about it, the more excited I get. The more I can’t wait for it to get here. Our big decision right now is do we want to find out what gender it is. We go back and forth on this. One day it’s a definite yes, the next it’s a definite no. Then we just don’t have a clue. It will probably come down to the last minute and we’ll just go with our gut. Then we’ll post the picture online and let everyone else figure it out for themselves.

Yesterday we heard the heartbeat. This thing is only about 4 inches long and it has a heartbeat. It’s incredible. It’s going like a rocket to. You can hear both Sharon and the babies at the same time. Sharon’s is a slow steady “thump-thump thump-thump”. The baby is going crazy “tick-a-tick-a-tick-a”. Almost like it’s saying “come-on-come-on-come-on”. It brings it a little closer to home to hear that heartbeat. Incredible, 11 weeks ago this thing was a single cell. One cell and now it’s got a heartbeat. The miracle of life. God has an excellent sense of drama.

Well, this is probably enough for the first entry in our baby diary. I’ll write more later. See ya.

Nate (Dad)