[kj] OT: Baby in NYC

gathering@misera.net gathering@misera.net
Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:40:54 -0500


very good news alex

congratulations
todd 







 
> 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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