{"id":208,"date":"2008-06-07T16:42:54","date_gmt":"2008-06-07T21:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dromomania.net\/blog\/?p=208"},"modified":"2012-01-14T21:24:34","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T03:24:34","slug":"birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dromomania.net\/Blog\/Blog.php\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"Birthday!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On June 7th<\/sup> 2008, Snormi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s identity was revealed as\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6Everett Maxwell Barber Butson.\u00c2\u00a0 Until the moment he arrived we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know boy or girl, and in either case we had to meet in person before choosing a name.\u00c2\u00a0 But it didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t come right away.\u00c2\u00a0 We had a short list of girl and boy names, and we tried a few over the weekend before deciding.\u00c2\u00a0 We chose Everett Maxwell for a number of reasons, one of which is that it is fitting of a poet & explorer.\u00c2\u00a0 A close friend of ours said that his name is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153on the hip side of nerdy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, and this is certainly good news to us.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps soon we will get him a pipe and a jacket with patches on the elbows.<\/p>\n

Melissa\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s labor was\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6much more difficult than we expected (Chris speaking).\u00c2\u00a0 It started at 5am on Thursday and she didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t give birth until 1:24 pm on Saturday, during which her contractions were never more than 8-10 minutes apart and neither of us slept very much.\u00c2\u00a0 The midwife broke her water about 10 am Saturday and they noticed a lot of meconium, apparently more than most people had seen before.\u00c2\u00a0 Melissa felt an urge to push about 1pm and it only took her 24 minutes to push the baby out, at which point the midwife and neonatologist went about trying to remove as much meconium as possible from his airways.\u00c2\u00a0 We were able to spend a few minutes with him before they gave him a vitamin K shot and took him to the special care nursery for about an hour of observation, after which they decided that his breathing noises had diminished enough.\u00c2\u00a0 One major epiphany was when the nurse brought him from the nursery, opened the door to our room and said \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Butson baby?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 She wheeled him in and left him with us.\u00c2\u00a0 This was the first time we spent alone with him and we will never forget it.<\/p>\n

A couple hours after birth we were moved from the labor room to a post-partum room.\u00c2\u00a0 Amanda and Chris went home to let the animals out and get Thai carry out for dinner.\u00c2\u00a0 Then we returned to the room and everyone ate dinner together while we slowly adjusted to this huge change in our lives.\u00c2\u00a0 Amanda left in the evening to stay at our house.\u00c2\u00a0 Melissa and I stayed in the room that night and put Everett in the nursery periodically to get some sleep between feedings.\u00c2\u00a0 At one point he started crying and wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t quit, and the nurse asked if his diaper was dirty, which had not previously occurred to us.\u00c2\u00a0 Clearly there is a fair amount of parenting common sense that we have to learn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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