Adalaide

Monday, October 2, 2023

What a wonderful weekend we just had. Lisa has gone a few days over due and was scheduled to be induced yesterday, Sunday, October 1st. Their little girl decided that she didn’t want to be induced and Lisa was in early labor pretty much all day Saturday. Things got serious Saturday evening, and around 8:30 Alex took her into the hospital.

Lisa’s psiatic nerve has been bugging her for weeks now and the contractions were making it so much worse so she promptly got an epidural and was finally enjoying some relief from pain.

Once they were in the hospital, they saw that Adelaides heart rate was gradually slowing down. They mentioned this a bit casually but it made Alex quite concerned. Finally it got to the point that they wanted to have this baby out quickly, because they figured the cord might be wrapped around her neck. They were going to break her water but decided it would be gentler on the baby to put Lisa on pitocen to strengthen the contractions. At one point they considered a Caeseran section but Adelaide was so far into the birth canal that it was no longer an option.

They then called a doctor to suction her out but as soon as he walked in Lisa did it on her own.

Adelaide was born at 3:03 in the morning on October 1, 2023 and she is a beautiful baby. This is what Alex texted the family shortly after the birth.

A lot happened. Cord was wrapped extremely tight around her neck and she came out not breathing. They had to immediately take her down to NICU which is where I am currently. She is hooked up to oxygen and they are monitoring her and doing full checkups every hour. Lisa got to hold her for about 30 seconds, I have not held her yet.

But we have our baby Adalaide 7 pounds 11 ounces. 21 inches, born at 3:03 am.

Alex was obviously (and understandably) unnerved at her birth. He said that her body was limp and unmoving, she was blue, and the cord was wrapped tightly around her neck. They struggled to get a finger under the cord so they could cut it right then and there. You can see the third picture how long the umbillical cord is. They have since cut it shorter.

They let Lisa hold her baby for about thirty seconds and then whisked her off to NICU where they put her on oxygen and constant surveillance.

Her oxygen levels quickly returned to 100%, but they wouldn’t let her out of NICU until her breathing rate dropped below 60 breaths a minute. Come morning Lisa had her new baby in her arms. It wasn’t until then that Alex even got to hold his baby. Looking at these pictures it doesn’t look like either one of them is ever going to let this baby go.

Once Adelaide was released from NICU, she was just another beautiful, normal, baby but boy was it scary for a while there.

In the morning, Alex and Lisa’s friends who were watching James brought him to the hospital so he could see his little sister. He was quite taken by her and was telling everyone he saw that this was his little sister.

Lisa and Adelaide went home Monday morning.

Mom and I were on the phone with Alex and he was showing Adelaide to us and we were trying to decided if Adelaide looked more like Alex or more like Lisa. Alex says, “she looks like you Dad”. That is very funny because my mask for my CPAP machine looks an awful lot like the oxygen mask Adelaide is wearing in the photo below.

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A female pregnant corpse will build up enough gas 

to expel the foetus even after death. 

They call it a “coffin birth.”

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