[kj] OT: Baby in NYC

[Jester]

A very big congrats to you, Peg and baby girl Charlotte. Welcome to the 
club called parenthood...and welcome to the wonderful world of being a 
father with a baby girl.


Cheers,
Jester

"Psychos do not burst into flames when sunlight hits them. I don't give 
a fuck how crazy they are!"


On Mar 22, 2004, at 11:56 PM, Alexander Smith 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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