# I'm Having a Baby, Right Now -- The Sequel! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 9, 2003, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-baby-right-now-the-sequel/206493 "2003-10-09T15:41:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2003, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-baby-right-now-the-sequel/206493/21 "2003-10-10T12:58:37Z")
I did not waddle, the computer came to me! Eric Morgan Lewis-Wick Born: 1:23 p.m. October 9, 2003 Stats: 7 lbs. 14 oz. - 23" tall Like I said yesterday, it happened very quickly – he was born less than two hours after I posted, and let me tell you that those two hours were very, very exhausting. We went to bed around 2:15 or so, and I’m just now able to be awake and functioning beyond my capacity as milk-provider. I was so shattered that I couldn’t even speak coherently yesterday. My mother arrived and was afraid that I’d had a stroke or something, but my midwives disabused her of that notion, fortunately, as my mother is the type to run outside and flag down a passing ambulance and demand that they come up to transport me to the nearest trauma center. But enough about my mother! Eric is fantastic. He’s loud! He has a good, indignant-sounding shriek already, and has used it twice. He’s all legs, long and lean and destined to the tall, like his father. He’s also bald as a cue ball, and has a scrunchy little nose, like his father. That is, his nose is like his father’s, Mr. TeaElle still has a full head of hair. Forgive me for rambling here, I’m still a little knocked out. Like his older sister’s, his name has a meaning. Eric is the common-name combination of both of his grandfather’s names (Errol and Patrick) neither of whom are still with us, and Morgan was a good friend of Mr. TeaElle’s and mine in college who was killed in a car accident a couple of years ago. I’m being beckoned for a feeding, so I’ll cut this off here. Thanks for all of your support and your inquiries after us. See you all soon. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2003, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-baby-right-now-the-sequel/206493/22 "2003-10-10T13:07:03Z")
Happy Baby!!! Congratulations. He sounds beautiful! ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2003, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-baby-right-now-the-sequel/206493/23 "2003-10-10T13:14:22Z")
YAY! Congrats to all! Two hours IS fast. I’m impressed – you must be talented! Now where are the pictures, huh? Huh? Huh? Doesn’t EVERYBODY have a digital camera? WE WANT PICTURES! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2003, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-baby-right-now-the-sequel/206493/24 "2003-10-10T13:14:27Z")
Whooo Hoooooo! Welcome little **Eric**! Try to take it easy on your Mama! Start your IRA today! Now you can not say no one ever told you. Oh and the Lions will never win a SuperBowl. Just thought you should be clued in. ---
**Author:** ![tarragon918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@tarragon918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarragon918)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2003, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-baby-right-now-the-sequel/206493/25 "2003-10-10T13:23:55Z")
Congratulations and welcome to the world, Eric Morgan! Great job too, TeaElle, posting while in labor like that. Definitely gets my vote for Doper of the Month™ if not of the Year. Good luck to all. ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2003, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-baby-right-now-the-sequel/206493/26 "2003-10-10T13:31:50Z")
Woo Woo!!! Sounds like your mother and mine share the medical paranoia gene… she wanted to rush me to the ER when I got my first period! I can’t describe how insane she is when it came to my kids being born … All I will say is she thinks I’m going to end up like Julia Roberts in Steel Magnolias… she actually said this to me. I really admire your ability to do a home birth. That has to be an amazing experience. Best wishes to the whole family… ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2003, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-baby-right-now-the-sequel/206493/27 "2003-10-10T14:00:08Z")
A most hearty **Mazel Tov**!!! ;j 😃 There, **Shirley**. Ya happy?? Give the woman a few hours, her brain was all ferschtummelled ! I swear, you’d better put your voting block behind this nomination, or there’ll be heck to pay. Heck, I tell yas !!! A warm fuzzy wonderful welcome to **Eric Morgan**. May he spend his years alternately delighting and infuriating his parents, causing many fine noble gray hairs to sprout. ---
**Author:** ![c\_carol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e79b87/32.png) [@c\_carol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_carol)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-baby-right-now-the-sequel/206493/28 "2003-10-11T01:00:09Z")
> [@](#): > > Eric is the common-name combination of both of his grandfather’s names (Errol and Patrick) Good choice, combining the names in that order. Other way 'round doesn’t work quite as well. Welcome, baby Eric, congrats Mom. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-baby-right-now-the-sequel/206493/29 "2003-10-11T02:32:21Z")
Maybe I’m weird…but though I don’t think it right to assume that everyone is straight, I don’t think it unreasonable to assume that someone married to a person of the opposite gender is straight, nor is it unreasonable to express surprise when the assumption is found to be incorrect. ---
**Author:** ![j\_sum1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@j\_sum1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j_sum1)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-baby-right-now-the-sequel/206493/30 "2003-10-11T03:28:11Z")
A big welcome to Eric. Congratulations and well done **TeaElle** **amarinth** , methinks you got lost. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-baby-right-now-the-sequel/206493/31 "2003-10-11T03:55:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by amarinth \* > \*\*Maybe I’m weird…but though I don’t think it right to assume that everyone is straight, I don’t think it unreasonable to assume that someone married to a person of the opposite gender is straight, nor is it unreasonable to express surprise when the assumption is found to be incorrect. \*\* Lemme guess…wrong thread? 😛 And while I’m here, congrats **TeaElle**! ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-baby-right-now-the-sequel/206493/32 "2003-10-11T04:04:30Z")
Wow… that ended up in the wrong thread…:smack: **TeaElle** , Congratulations! And welcome, Eric Morgan! ---
**Author:** ![leechbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@leechbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechbabe)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-baby-right-now-the-sequel/206493/33 "2003-10-11T05:50:05Z")
Congrats **TeaElle** & Mr TeaElle. Hope you get some rest. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2003, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-baby-right-now-the-sequel/206493/34 "2003-10-13T11:15:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by amarinth \* > \*\*Maybe I’m weird…but though I don’t think it right to assume that everyone is straight, I don’t think it unreasonable to assume that someone married to a person of the opposite gender is straight, nor is it unreasonable to express surprise when the assumption is found to be incorrect. \*\* We love you, **TeaElle** - no matter HOW you became impregnated. 😛 So?? Is this a good baby? Sleeps well? Waves little fists in an adorable fashion? Eats contentedly? Has charmed the living daylights out of all who have met him?? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2003, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-baby-right-now-the-sequel/206493/35 "2003-10-13T12:59:16Z")
This all sounds very difficult and an unpleasant way to spawn. Have you Earth-Humans ever considered laying eggs as an alternative? Or bianary fission? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2003, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-baby-right-now-the-sequel/206493/36 "2003-10-15T23:44:10Z")
That’s " **binary** fusion, **Bosda**. Remember the words of our **Perfect Master** > [@](#): > > Boys don’t get intimate with girls who’re illiterate. ( d&r ) ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-baby-right-now-the-sequel/206493/37 "2003-10-16T00:35:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cartooniverse \* > \*\*That’s " **binary** fusion, **Bosda**. Remember the words of our **Perfect Master** > > ( d&r ) \*\* Fission, my dear lunk-head, is the process of reproduction by splitting into two or more organisms. We weren’t discussing fusion. And I ain’t no girl. And, as previously stated, I am an excellent speller, but a very poor typist. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-baby-right-now-the-sequel/206493/38 "2003-10-16T01:16:03Z")
-grin- You spelled Binary wrong, hence my bemused posting. Sorry I got your gender wrong. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-baby-right-now-the-sequel/206493.md?page=1)