Cathy had an early Halloween party and birthday party for Phillip. She wore her pumpkin costume but this year she did not wear a pillow underneath as she was expecting any minute. I hoped she would wait until after our Elk hunt and she did.
I do not know how they are doing deliveries nowadays; Mom just had the babies without a lot of planning for the moment. But now you have to work around the schedule of the Obstetrician and the availabilities of hospital beds for birthing mothers and the Dad's working schedule.
As I understand it, Pete took a week off from his dental practice and on Tuesday, Cathy started to have contractions. These were spaced but she went into the hospital and they put some sort of contraction monitor on her to decide whether she could stay.
Cathy somehow could simulate contractions in between the real contractions and make it show on the monitor. She would put in an extra pseudo contraction between the natural ones and they kept her and the obstetrician said, "OK, we will deliver the baby," Cathy then had a nice little 7 1/2 pound girl, Amelia Rose.
I took a picture with my Blackberry and here is Cathy and little Amelia, their third child and our 68th Grandchild.Way to go Cathy and Pete, you have a great family
Alles Gute,
Dad
1 comment:
ha! Great story! Yeah, they had a monitor on my stomach. I would flex my stomach muscles so that it would show up as a contraction on the monitor. We were going to get induced two days later, but weaseled our way into labor and delivery for an earlier induction :-) She is a cute baby and is doing great!
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