baby ana kuja
i think we are off to hospital tonight!! my wife isn’t excited cause she is dreading the birth process. I guess i can’t blame her:). But I am excited. I can’t wait to meet my son.
still working on photos from malakal and others and hope to have those up pronto.
ok, more later
***update***
so we didn’t go to hospital last night. Mary decided she wanted to wait a bit. We ended up sleeping till about 4 this morning and then we decided to go. We got there, they checked her out and said the cervix wasn’t opening up yet and that we should probably just go home. Then they suggested they could give Mary some sort of enima thingy (have no idea what this is) or a pill to help get things a-goin.
My wife is very hard headed. She doesn’t like foriegn substances be introduced to her body, which I don’t blame her for, and she will refuse just about anything unless someone can explain everything to her in very good detail why she must take a thing. The unfortunate part is most of the medical practitioners on this side either really have no idea how or why a thing works, or feel it is a waste of time to explain how something works and that a patient should just believe them because they are the “medical” expert.
Which is to say that after hanging out at the hospital for an hour and getting myself all excited about the birth, we packed up our stuff and came home. At least I managed to get a bit sleep and I think Mary did as well.
We have talked with our doctor again and are headed that way to meet him in the next few minutes. If he thinks we should try to induce, I sure hope he is able to sweet talk my wife into going through with it. Otherwise we may running back and forth to hospital for the next few days.:)
10/19/2006 @ 16:26 pm
”Mimi pia nawatakia wakati mwema mnapoongoja kuzaliwa kwa mwana wenu”
am also wishing you a good moment as you’re waiting for your new born baby.
10/19/2006 @ 22:10 pm
We’re wiating with baited breath for more news. Grandma Rooker has appointed me the messenger while your folks are visiting you!
10/20/2006 @ 00:52 am
I hope Mary is well and does she know what all personal woman stuff you are telling every one LOL ????? Women all go through this but we dont like to talk about the enimas and stuff like that. Please ask her what to say and what not to say. Let her have her dignity for this birth lol. I do wish yall the best and I hope your mom & dad got there ok.
10/20/2006 @ 19:33 pm
I check the website daily so we will know when the baby arrives. So glad we can communicate this way–so much quicker and inexpensive than other ways.I was 10 days late delivering your mother, 5 wks. late with Aunt Cindy, and 3 wks. late with Aunt Susan. I don’t think the doctors allow women to delay so long any more–thank goodness. The Dr. did have me take an enema before Cindy was born and she came 11 hours later. I was really getting desparate to have her. What a thing to discuss on the computer! Who can guess what I will say next? Anyway, good luck with it all, we hope it will all soon be over.
Lovingly,
Grandma T.
10/21/2006 @ 23:27 pm
We’re all waiting for word. I’ve been appointed the messenger to grandma and grandpa r. They’re waiting, too. Not as bad as your wait, however. Goc bless & keep all of you.