[kj] OT: Baby in NYC

Elana Mojica gathering@misera.net
Tue, 23 Mar 2004 07:32:07 -0600


Congrats to you all!! Such wonderful news!!! Glad to hear all of you are
doing well.

> 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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