The Blog of Hans Eisenman

We're home!

We are happy to be home.  :)  Thanks again to all for the kind thoughts,  help watching our house, kids and the love!   

More Aidan Photos

With Grandma, yesterday.
More pictures are located in the Photo Album below (or will be in a moment--uploading them next).

Thursday Update, Muy Rapido

Momma and Poppa are tired but otherwise great.  Aidan is perfect. :)   We may be able to leave Mease tonight and go home.  We'll see how Momma's war wounds are doing around dinner time.

First Images

Here he is!  (Clicking on image should give you a much larger version.)
Presently he is sleeping soundly and so is his momma.  Thanks for the flowers and well wishes and overwhelming show of support.  You're all the best!

This Labor Thing Is EASY!

Her water has indeed broken but labor has not really kicked in like it should.  According to the RN here, when water breaks it should send a  signal to the body to go into contraction mode.  If that doesn't happen there are some natural things one can do to help that along.   Pitosin, a drug used to induce contractions, is not an option because she had our last child caesarian ('long live Caesar!'). We aren't huge fans of the pharma-approach anyway.

She is still at about 3cm and 60% or so effaced (if you are a parent, this kind of detail probably doesn't weird you out--for all you with a lower threshold for such things, you might try reading other categories in this budding blog :).

There is a nautural hormone balancer I want to give her called Master Gland (no I am not making ths up).  Supposedly this helps.  We'll see.

As I write this, Christine is doing power laps around her hospital room floor.  If she goes any faster she'll start a vortex.  (The midwife on  duty till six is our fav so C wants to have the baby during that time.  I know better than to debate the point.)

Next update will be when labor contractions have started unless something notable happens.

Disclaimer:  most of these updates I wouldn't consider typcial blogging material, but we have a lot of family and friends who want the latest and with details.  So this will probably inturrupt regular peogramming, as it were.

We have water!

Labor has officially started.  Contractions every 3 mins lasting 30 seconds.  Sound the trumpets!

Baby

Here's a follow-up update.  Christine just came from seeing her chiro where she went to get the Webster Technique done.  The opinion of the chiro re: the slow labor was that Christine's pelvic bone was off by a 1/2 inch.  She adjusted it with the activator  (little hand tool that makes gentle but effective adjustments) and did the Webster Technique to get things generally aligned in the pelvic region.  Christine just called to say she feels taller and more comfortable with the position of the baby.

This stuff makes sense to me.  How can you get a 7 lb baby out of a 10cm hole if the hole is tilting the wrong way?

Non-Pharmaceutical Induction

Non-Pharmaceutical Induction

Here's one thing we are doing to move the labor along.  Noting it for all you prego moms out there and just for general interest.

Monday Update

Christine is still progressing.  I'll leave the gorier details out but suffice to say that there are certain biological indications that labor is right around the corner.  Could be 5 mins from now or 5 days.

My employer has graciously allowed me to work from home since it could take me longer to get to Christine than it would take for her to fully dilate. 

More news as it develops!

Baby Update

As of Friday, Christine is 3cm and 60 % effaced.

This could mean we're having the baby today or it could mean longer, a week even. It's hard to say because dilation and effacing are both necessary to get the kid out of there.

He's sitting very low and head down now, which is great.  Our last two kids were breech so we were keen to have Aidan assume the position.

To do that we used the webster technique and  about 30 hours of Voodoo.

Okay, we didn't do any Voodoo, but believe me we probably would have tried it eventually if it meant we could have this VBAC.

More updates will be posted to this blog as I am able (read: if I can get Internet access).

Thanks for all the love, prayers and friendship.

PS: If you want to get regular updates to this or other blogs, I'd like to recommend Bloglines.  It's an web-based blog reader that gives you a little pop-up when yours subscriptions have new material.