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Entries for the ‘Having a Baby’ Category

Maternity, Pregnancy, Family Photos – Jessamyn North Photography

Let me rewind a bit to post some photos taken of Elizabeth during her latter pregnancy months, in late June. I’d posted back in May about my opinion of pro pregnancy/maternity photographers and their desire to charge you out the yang to get access to the original digital files. Anyway, I’d recently reconnected with a [...]

Luke’s first few minutes – On Video!

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More photos

Things are going well. Elizabeth is recovering rapidly and we expect to leave the hospital Friday or Saturday. Luke is doing great and is a pretty good sleeper… at this point. He’s also feeding well and I’ve been pretty good at soothing him when he does get fussy (very proud). I even changed a few [...]

Lucas Stephen Carrier – 7lbs, 15 oz., 22″, Born 7:50 p.m., 8/4/09

So, he’s here and all the trials and tribulations of the past couple days (and months) will soon be forgotten.  Elizabeth was exhausted at this point but I saw her eyes light up when we first heard him cry.  He was actually pretty quiet after that as I held him through the remainder of the [...]

She will have a c-section

Not only did dilation not progress nor the baby drop further, but Elizabeth’s back pain returned in force and she began to have other pains on one side that the epidural did not alleviate. After almost a full day of labor she is beyond exhaustion. Even if the pain were not the issue, she would [...]