# Baby's here! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 20, 2011, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babys-here/603538 "2011-11-20T08:56:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babys-here/603538/41 "2011-11-21T01:47:50Z")
Congrats on the beautiful baby. You life will be changing in ways you cannot even imagine, but you know what? It’s all good. I’m very happy for you. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babys-here/603538/42 "2011-11-21T01:51:04Z")
Congratulations, pbbth! I’m very happy for you and your family. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Monstera\_deliciosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monstera_deliciosa/32/109_2.png) [@Monstera\_deliciosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstera_deliciosa)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babys-here/603538/43 "2011-11-21T01:53:42Z")
She’s lovely. Congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babys-here/603538/44 "2011-11-21T03:05:00Z")
Congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![Salem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Salem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salem)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babys-here/603538/45 "2011-11-21T04:06:06Z")
Beautiful baby!! Congrats and best wishes for a happy and healthy future for you all! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babys-here/603538/46 "2011-11-21T04:09:18Z")
Cutest Little Raspberry ever! I esp like the picture of her yawning. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babys-here/603538/47 "2011-11-21T04:10:32Z")
PBBBTTTTTHHHHH! 😃 Welcome Bridget! U iz cute babby! ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babys-here/603538/48 "2011-11-21T05:50:33Z")
Happy new baby to you! She is very cute. Not all newborns are, you know. Kiddo was kind of funny looking at first. Yours is adorable! I love the name Bridget, too. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babys-here/603538/49 "2011-11-21T05:59:11Z")
Welcome to the world, Little Raspberry. 🙂 Congrats, **pbbth**. She’s a cutie! ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babys-here/603538/50 "2011-11-21T10:37:26Z")
She really is gorgeous 🙂 Congrats! The pic of her yawning is my favorite … so far hint hint ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babys-here/603538/51 "2011-11-21T15:07:28Z")
Congrats all of you! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babys-here/603538/52 "2011-11-21T15:18:15Z")
> [@pbbth](#): > > I’m back and officially out of the hospital. The baby is currently enjoying her bouncy chair and being [adorable](http://s439.photobucket.com/albums/qq111/lesschatmorehat/?action=view¤t=021.jpg). Her name is [Bridget](http://s439.photobucket.com/albums/qq111/lesschatmorehat/?action=view¤t=010.jpg) and she is just about the [best](http://s439.photobucket.com/albums/qq111/lesschatmorehat/?action=view¤t=001.jpg) [baby](http://s439.photobucket.com/albums/qq111/lesschatmorehat/?action=view¤t=014.jpg) [ever](http://s439.photobucket.com/albums/qq111/lesschatmorehat/?action=view¤t=011.jpg). She sleeps for several hours at a time with no interruptions and she nurses like a champ which I think is the universe’s way of apologizing for the 4 spinals it took to numb me for my cesarean. Congratulations! How exciting! And I hope she stays this way, after how difficult your pregnancy was, you deserve an easy child. What a little princess! ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babys-here/603538/53 "2011-11-21T23:24:03Z")
Squee! I swear, Doper babies are the cutest in the world! Congratulations, and it sounds like you’re coping admirably with new motherhood! ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babys-here/603538/54 "2011-11-21T23:41:31Z")
She’s gorgeous! I’m sorry about the four sticks-I seem to remember you not being particularly fond of needles. Congrats to you for getting through everything so well without panicking. Does she have her father wrapped around her little finger yet? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babys-here/603538/55 "2011-11-21T23:50:10Z")
I’m sorry. She’s too cute. You’ll have to give her back and get a normal baby. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babys-here/603538/56 "2011-11-22T01:49:14Z")
> [@pbbth](#): > > I’m back and officially out of the hospital. The baby is currently enjoying her bouncy chair and being [adorable](http://s439.photobucket.com/albums/qq111/lesschatmorehat/?action=view¤t=021.jpg). Her name is [Bridget](http://s439.photobucket.com/albums/qq111/lesschatmorehat/?action=view¤t=010.jpg) and she is just about the [best](http://s439.photobucket.com/albums/qq111/lesschatmorehat/?action=view¤t=001.jpg) [baby](http://s439.photobucket.com/albums/qq111/lesschatmorehat/?action=view¤t=014.jpg) [ever](http://s439.photobucket.com/albums/qq111/lesschatmorehat/?action=view¤t=011.jpg). She sleeps for several hours at a time with no interruptions and she nurses like a champ which I think is the universe’s way of apologizing for the 4 spinals it took to numb me for my cesarean. Congratulations!! Life as you used to know it is gone, of course. Welcome to the wonderful world of being a parent, where joy and exhaustion duke it out for years without either one ever getting a clear lead. But damn, is it ever worth it! ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babys-here/603538/57 "2011-11-22T04:23:29Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > She’s gorgeous! I’m sorry about the four sticks-I seem to remember you not being particularly fond of needles. Congrats to you for getting through everything so well without panicking. Does she have her father wrapped around her little finger yet? The needles were the worst part. The nurse screwed up my IV and I bled everywhere all over the room, it took 4 tries to numb me with the spinal, and then they had to give me another injection and take blood over the rest of my stay. I did get through it all but not without panicking. Loud, screaming, crying panicking. [Yes, she has her father wrapped around her little finger](http://s439.photobucket.com/albums/qq111/lesschatmorehat/?action=view¤t=benandbaby.jpg). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babys-here/603538/58 "2011-11-22T06:11:32Z")
[QUOTE=pbbth;14488038!] [Yes, she has her father wrapped around her little finger](http://s439.photobucket.com/albums/qq111/lesschatmorehat/?action=view¤t=benandbaby.jpg). 🙂 [/QUOTE] Get used to that. She’ll be all about Mommy for a while, and then one day, she will suddenly become Daddy’s Girl. And you’ll think to yourself “I carried you all those months, and look at this big scar from having myself sliced open to deliver you safely, and I fed you and bathed you and changed a zillion diapers, and this is how you treat me?!” But it’s all normal, and the pendulum will swing back eventually, so enjoy those days for what they are. Nothing is much cuter than a tiny little girl leading a besotted grown man by the nose. My favorite moment when Lily was born wasn’t the first time I held this perfect little creature, ('though that was amazing.) It was the look of teary-eyed wonder on her father’s face when he first held her, as though she was the first child ever, and as though I had conjured the most miraculous being on the planet. I’m enjoying the Mommy phase, but I will actually enjoy the “I love my daddy best” phase also. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babys-here/603538/59 "2011-11-22T06:32:40Z")
If I may make an observation from the other side of the equation (and I’m going to whether I may or not), my Dad Moment™ with the Elder Ottlet came a bit later, after the Apgars and the mecomium poop, when they were putting her mother to bed. A nurse directed me to sit in a recliner and handed EO (who was kinda fussy with all this commotion) to me. As soon as I leaned back a bit she curled up in a ball on my chest, let out a sigh bigger than she was, and fell asleep. That was 25+ years ago, and the little finger still has a hold on me. Looks like Bridget’s father is right on schedule. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babys-here/603538/60 "2011-11-22T06:42:54Z")
Wow **pbbth** , you’ve gone from single to dating to married to mom. Makes me feel old. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babys-here/603538.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babys-here/603538.md?page=4)