sister

I'm an uncle!!!

Jacob Redding — Sun, 22 Feb 2004 16:50:00 +0000

While I slept my sister gave birth. Leyla (layla, leila, sp?) was born at 4:20am, weighs in at 7lb 8oz and is 20 inches long. I am about to head to the hospital to see my newborn niece and my sister right now. I'll post pictures when I get back.

The waiting game

Jacob Redding — Sun, 22 Feb 2004 09:59:00 +0000

I drove up to washington tonight to be with my sister when she gives birth to her first (and most likely only) daughter. I arrived at the hospital at approximately 9:30pm and my sister was pretty out of it due to the pain brought on by the contractions. She told me that she has been having contractions since 5am this morning and that they have been fairly regular all day long. She was really tired and I'm sure also very very sore. After twenty minutes or so a nurse came in to give my sister a shot of morphine and antihistamine (don't quote me on that, medically inclined folk) so that she can sleep. After waiting with her and Peter for several hours I decided to head back to their house in Olympia to get some rest. Which is where I am now.

The waiting game begins...

They will give me a call tomorrow (sunday, which is actually today) when my sister goes into labor. Until I get the call I'm just going to wait around and do my homework; which I have a lot of. I'll post pictures as soon as I can take them.

Contractions

Jacob Redding — Sun, 22 Feb 2004 02:36:00 +0000

My sister went into labor this afternoon. I'm leaving for Washington to be with her and Peter (her husband) at the hospital. I will be back in town sunday night or monday afternoon. See you all later.

I'm going to be an uncle soon ;)