[kj] OT: Baby in NYC

[culturevirus]

At 09:56 PM 3/22/04, you 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.

Cheer's Alex. Much happiness to ya. My own wee lass came into the world in 
similar circumstances.



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