December and February Ultrasounds

Here's the last shot of Sprog, before he becomes Aidan.

Patti, our midwife, hard at work...

The first few hours the monitor was a father-to-be's best friend. The baby's heartbeat is on top, on the bottom is the mini-seismograph that measures contractions, not earthquakes -- tho' at times it sure SEEMED like the latter...on the graph shown here each vertical blue line indicates a minute...the whopper in the middle went right off the scale, and another one is just beginning off to the right.

Nurse Jessica gets things ready for the final push. Monmouth Hospital was a great place to have a baby, and we were lucky to get both a wonderful nurse and a fantastic midwife.

Half an hour old, after the emergency team had given Aidan the "green light", Aidan is given to his mother.

31 minutes in the world...Cathy's arm still badly swollen from an I.V. attempt that went awry.

"Where the heck AM I?!! Better have a peek"

" This is upsetting! This lady's BIG!"

"OK. I'll just touch her with my pinkie to see if she's friendly..."

"Maybe it's not so bad after all...she has such a beautiful smile...it seems so...familiar"
[ One hour old with a tired momma]

"All right... I'll open my eyes and see what's going on"

Aidan's first meal...I think Cathy looks as beautiful in this picture as I have ever seen her...

...and Aidan went from pale to pink before our eyes.

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Delivery Room with Dad.

Jessica, our wonderful Delivery Room Nurse, checks mom's blood pressure and poses with her night's work.