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Because you can never get enough… more pictures!

Just a few new ones today…

While she’s not quite at 2 months yet, but new pictures are always good!

New pictures from Month 1:

We’re now home and there’s no more nurses to hand the baby off to. This little baby is in so much trouble. But more importantly: Lots more pictures!

Between family visiting at multiple times of the day, requests from pictures not only across the city but across countries, try to deal personal needs for us and Alaina, dirty diapers, feedings and having nurses in and out of our room, this has just been one monster day. I real all sorts of books like “Becoming Baby Wise” and “What to Expect When You’re Expecting” and none of them sufficiently prepared us for the enormity of today. I couldn’t handle this more than once a year or so.

In the end, we’ve got a perfect baby girl and that’s all that matters.

The saying “this is the first day of the rest of your life? has never rung quite so true; nor as loudly.

All there’s left to do today is sleep. And hopefully, do lots of thatl

So last night was pretty boring, but things got a teensy bit more exciting around 3AM – fairly powerful contractions kicked in, necessitating the application of some sweet sweet drugs (Stadol). This got mommy-to-be a little more sleep until they wore around 6am.

A quick test revealed little dilation from the previous night, much to everyone’s disappointment, except the contracts, who kept on keeping on. The epidural was attached around 8:15 and another check showed Kandace to be 8cm dilated, which is just silly.

So now Kandace is drugged up a resting relatively peacefully. And now we get to wait.

Update: The just came in and upped the pictosin dose.

Update 2: The doctor is going to break the water around 10:30AM

As scheduled, we arrived at the hospital at 5PM. Unfortunately, millions of babies are apparently hurtling forth today and they hospital was filled to the brim with the little bundles of terror joy, leading to us having to wait for 2 hours just to get a room. I can only assume that had Kandace gone into labor, they would have cleaned out a janitorial closet or perhaps offered up the nurses’ station instead of leaving us to our own devices in the visitor’s lounge.

After another hour or so, a quick test determined that we didn’t need the initial procedure that was schedule, and Kandace is receiving a low dose of pictosin tonight and then a full dose tomorrow night.

Everybody is happy and healthy and we’re still on track for arrival tomorrow!

Well, at least we don’t have to wonder when we’re supposed to go to the hospital now – we’re scheduled to go in Tuesday at 5PM to start the proceedings. They’ll do some procedure I’ve never heard of Tuesday evening and then Kandace will get a shot of Oxytocin, also known as Pictosin, which should kick things into high gear.

Finally got the nursery painted and furnished. There’s a bunch of hand made stuff (sheets, window dressings, quilt on the hope chest and the mobile’s coverings) made by the mothers in laws.

More pictures can be found here!