Wired

Here are a few more photos from the hospital. It is so good to have gone wireless with our baby--so nice to not have monitors beeping every time we shift him.

So you know my name is...

Simon Thomas Core
Friday 12 June 2009
American Fork Hospital
American Fork, UT
9 lbs .03 oz. / 19.5"








All told the labor and delivery was 17 hours--5 of which were at the hospital. The midwife and nurses were awesome and James was allowed to catch Simon as he came tumbling out. Immediately upon Simon's emergence from the womb, the delivery room was filled with nurses. He was having trouble breathing, and was whisked away before I really had a chance to see him. He was diagnosed with pneumonia and has been in the NICU for the past 5 days receiving antibiotics. We have stayed on at the hospital as boarders to be near him, and have had such a positive experience with the staff here. Aside from the infection in his lungs, he is a healthy boy with a bright, inquisitive face and a healthy appetite!

I'm putting Baby in the corner

Someone needs to go into time-out for all these false starts I've been getting for the past week and a half. I could handle going over my due date, if my body would just leave me alone and send the continuous and comforting message, "not yet." Instead I have frequent and semi-strong contractions for a 24-hour period, just to have it all come to a screeching halt for a few days like a "gotcha!" gag.

Patience is a virtue.

At first I thought that there was something I was supposed to do before he came--that karma was holding back the waves of labor for me to figure something out or get something done. Nope, I made my list and checked it twice. Then we started deliberately putting ourselves into inconvenient situations and saying aloud, "Goodness, it sure would be inconvenient if this baby came now!" He's not biting. Now I'm wondering if little junior just doesn't get it. Last night he was squirming around like he was stuck under a sheet and couldn't find his way out. Somebody needs to show that boy where the ejection button is.