[kj] OT: Baby in NYC

[Djehuti111]

Congratulations Alex!
 What better way to celebrate the return of Spring!

 Aleph


--- Alexander Smith <vassifer@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> Sorry to be flagrantly off topic for a mo', but it
> is with *GREAT* 
> Pleasure, Pride and Exhaustion that I proclaim to
> you that.....
> 
> 		At 7:45 pm on MONDAY, MARCH 22nd, one little
> CHARLOTTE MARY SMITH IN 
> NYC popped her tiny little head into the world. 
> Weighing in at six 
> pounds and some-odd ounces, little Charlotte gave
> her long-stressed and 
> sleepless-from-cholestasis mother a good fake-out
> with some braxton 
> hicks contractions (i.e. false alarm) on Friday
> night. We were all 
> prepared to sprint off to the hospital then and
> there, but the 
> contractions never revealed themselves at regular
> intervals and 
> eventually dissipated. So, when we went in this
> morning (Monday), they 
> ran a bunch to tests, looked up and said: "How about
> today, then?"
> 
> And so it was.
> 
> Mother, child and dazed-but-elated father are all
> doing fine. They just 
> kicked me out of the hospital so that all and sundry
> may sleep.
> 
> It is with indescribable joy and relief that I
> report that little 
> Charlotte, though having only spent 36 weeks to the
> day in the womb, 
> came out as perfect and as unspeakably adorable as
> can be.
> 
> Anyway, there you have it.....
> 
> Alex in NYC.....on cloud Nine.
> 
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"The scene was wild and somewhat sinister. The
darkness, the palms, the mountainous background, the
silent lake below, the impenetrable canopy of space,
studded with secretive and significant stars, formed a
stupendous setting for the savage noise and blaze of
the ceremony."

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