2 posts tagged “baby”
Mary and I had a long day at the hospital today, but the actual labor and delivery only took about 3 hours once they broke Mary's water.
Mary was a real trooper and successfully completed her third consecutive anesthesia free labor and delivery. She was actually laughing and happily talking to our awesome nurses in between contractions until the last 15 minutes or so when it came time to push Nathan out. I'm in complete awe of her tolerance for pain.
Nathan Edward was officially born just after 10 PM tonight. He weighed in at 6 lbs 1 oz and was 18.5 inches long.
On a basketball related note, the labor and delivery took place during the big GU - WSU game so it was probably for the best that it was on ESPNU where I couldn't watch it anyway.
I spent a good portion of my spare time in August teaching myself to knit. There's an unbelievable amount of knitting information and patterns available on the internet so it's really not that hard to pick up once you apply yourself. Knitting Help has a lot of very helpful free instructional videos for a lot of different techniques and was the biggest help in mastering the basic Continental (as opposed to English) techniques.
Here's the Iceland Baby Hat I knit for Houston. I deviated from the original design in a couple ways. I used a smaller gauge cotton yarn rather than wool and I made a big H in the front by mixing purl and knit stitches. I think it ended up being just about the right size for a newborn baby's head, but we'll know for sure in the next week or two.
