Posts Tagged Baby

Six-month olds:

• laugh at your jokes simply for the joy of laughing with you
• make you feel both young and old at the same time
• let you know exactly how they are feeling
• have no fear (of putting anything in their mouth)
• eat when hungry, sleep when sleepy, play while energetic, and smile while happy
• make the most wonderful and horrible faces

Can't they put me back?

With one week of sporadic sleep for the wife and me, we finally have reason to rejoice: our baby slept at night.  His normal sleep pattern has been to sleep in the mornings and evenings, not at night.  So, considering he has only ever slept as much as one hour and twenty minutes at a time during the night, it seemed like a miracle when he went down for four solid hours last night, fed, and then went down for three more.  Yeah! 

I might actually regain some shred of the little sanity I had before.  I might be able to write soon.  I know, I know… wishful thinking on both counts.

A long awaited day… I am a daddy.  Here is mom and baby.  Donovan was 7lbs 9oz, 21.25″, and a handful.  He’s doing great, mom is still recovering.  Overall, this has been/is a huge distraction from writing, and right now I don’t care.  He is beautiful.

According to the sonogram tech, the baby was due Feb 2nd – wrong.

I thought the baby would come Feb 4th – nope.  Then I had a fear, during the superbowl – thankfully no.

The secondary doctor that saw my wife said Feb 9th, but looked like the baby was coming early.  Safe bet to say the baby coming early was off, unless she meant a few hours early  - we were really taking it as a few weeks early since they put my wife on bed rest.  Any way you look at this, if the baby doesn’t decide to bless us with its arrival right now, this prediction is going to be totally wrong.

Now we are coming up on the last guess, the primary doctor (actually a nurse practitioner).  She says Feb 15th, but also said the baby looks to be coming a little early.

If I wrote non-fiction, I could do a whole book about the last two months.  As it is, I am thinking it might lend itself well to some SciFi story.

The last two days have been good to me. 

• I have edited two pages of The Open Door and have written about a thousand words on my anthology entry.  The anthology entry is a dooms day story. 
• I had my yearly eval at work.  Everything looked good.  I am still employed.
• Lis has not been having the contractions close enough together to make us sit by a clock timing and wondering, unlike Tuesday morning where we lived by the clock for a while.

I have found it very difficult to write or even think the last few weeks.  My baby is due between Feb 2nd and Feb 15th, depending on who you talk to at the hospital.  However, they all agree that the baby is looking like it will be early.

I thought I would be able to write until the baby comes – I was wrong.  Between writing down my wife’s contraction times, assembling baby contraptions, reiterating that ‘nothing is really happening’ to every friend and relative, and checking (over and over) our list of supplies and goods for both the hospital trip and for when we come home, I have not had any time for writing.  I barely have time for sleeping.

Any goals that I had at the beginning of the month seem silly now.  I have a baby coming, a first child, a little time machine… something that will make me younger on some days and older on others.  I still hope to have a story in the unnamed FSFW anthology, but my new goals are more home based.  I wonder how long it will be before I am back to writing 15-30 hours a week like I used to.  I guess, for now, that doesn’t matter.