News about Julia!
After Julia was born, Sharon thought she looked a lot like me. We were curious to see my baby pictures and compare them with Julia. We also wanted to see how she looked compared to Susan as a newborn. Susan sent us a picture as a newborn, and the similarities are striking. Susan put the pictures side by side and sent it to me.
Obviously, Susan is on the left, Julia on the right. It’s amazing how similar they look.
I’ve been up since about 12:30am, when Sharon got me and told me it was my turn to feed Julia. Around 2:00am, I finally got Julia to sleep. Her next feeding was around 4:00am, and I’m getting ready to hand off Julia to Sharon so I might be able to get to sleep before the sun rises. Anyway, just some totally random thoughts that I’ve had lately:
Well, it’s starting to get a little light out. I need to get to sleep before it gets too bright.
I never knew how much I loved sleep. I was never one to stay up all night, ever. I never pulled at all-nighter at school. (Staying out all night drinking doesn’t count!)
The last few nights have been pretty restless, though they do seem to be getting better. Though the days do seem to be blurring together. We didn’t even know it was Valentine’s Day until we saw it on the Today Show.
Julia has been a bit fussy lately. She doesn’t really like sleeping by herself yet. And I think she might have her days and nights mixed up. So I’ve been up for a bit at night, but Sharon has been up much more at night than I have been.
Anyway, here’s some more pictures.
We’re home!
After three long days in the hospital, Mom and Julia were discharged from the hospital. Julia is doing very well, and has managed to keep both Mom and Dad up for most of the last couple nights. She likes to sleep and be quiet during the day, but at night, she tends to stay a bit more fussy. And that doesn’t exactly bode well for Sharon and me.
Since I haven’t exactly had a lot of time to do much of anything, I’m only uploading 11 pictures today. I’ve developed the pictures from my film camera, and I’m going to try and get some of them up this weekend. Maybe during one of Julia’s middle of the night fits…
Anyway, thank you for all the support I’ve seen on the site! We really do appreciate it! I also promise to reply to these messages. Hopefully sooner rather than later.
Link to brand new pictures.
Sharon went into labor yesterday, a little earlier than we had expected. Here’s the short of it: her water broke around 3:45am yesterday, we got to the hospital around 4:30am, and she had the baby at 11:47pm. I’m not getting into the how and why right now, but doing more of a picture dump for all too see.
Any way, the details: Sharon had a girl, 8 lbs. 1 oz, 20″, born at 11:47pm on 2/7/06. It’s not official yet, but we are leaning towards naming her Julia. I can’t even explain how I feel right now. It’s just an incredible feeling.
Now for the pictures. Link to Baby Gallery.
So we’re getting into that home stretch here. Sharon’s due date is only a couple weeks away, and she could into labor at any time now. I’ve taken some pictures of Sharon’s progression.
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Sharon has also taken a poll of about 40 people at work to see when they think Sharon will have the baby, how much the baby will weigh, and if the baby is a boy or girl. The average guess is that she will have the baby on February 10, and the baby will be about 7 and a half pounds. It was just about 50/50 on boy or girl. Our doctor is guessing 8 pounds, and the due date all along has been February 11.
Four weeks until Sharon’s due date guessed by the doctors, that is. Of course, we all know that the baby will be born during the Super Bowl, where, of course, the Colts (one of Sharon’s teams, Cleveland is the other one) will be playing.
The baby has been quite active lately, and is really making Sharon’s life difficult. About a week ago, she could not fall asleep for over two hours, because the baby thought it was a wonderful time to have a dance contest.
So when do you think the baby will be born? Make it known in the comments below, and the closest to the date will win a piece of junk lovely prize.
Sharon’s baby shower was this past Saturday, and we had a pretty good turnout. There were about 15 people that came, and everyone had a good time.
We would have loved it if everyone were able to make it, but seeing how everyone is all over the place, it just isn’t possible.
A big thanks to Vanessa, Jen, Rachel, and Angie to putting together the whole event. And another big thanks to everyone for the presents! Everything we got is extremely useful, and will definitely be put to good use.
Angie and Vanessa took a lot of pictures of the whole event, and I’ve posted them to the image gallery. If (for some reason), you want a higher resolution of a picture, just drop me a line.
Sharon has been working on creating Baby Registries for Target and Babies R Us. Our preference is towards Target, because Babies R Us and Amazon made it pretty difficult to get the registry activated online.
Babies R Us Registry (Registry #45562974)
Just wanted to post a quick update on how Sharon and the baby are doing. Sharon had an appointment last week, and they said everything is going well. She got measured, and she’s on target.
I’m feeling the baby kick a whole lot now. Some of those kicks seemed pretty violent too. I actually felt the baby for sure last week. It’s really neat to feel the kick of the baby. I’m sure it will only get more active too. Well, at least until the baby gets really crowded in there and can’t move around much.
We’re still struggling with baby names. Do any of you have suggestions?
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