[kj] OT: Baby in NYC

[Brian]

Alex and family,

Congratulations.

As somebody said to me 6 months ago, " a life changing event". They were
right.
Charlotte - nice name.

If you ned any tips on overcoming sleep deprivation just ask, I've become an
expert over the last few months.

Brian.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alexander Smith" <vassifer@earthlink.net>
To: <gathering@misera.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 5:56 AM
Subject: [kj] OT: Baby in NYC


>
> 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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