My wife delivered our first baby Monday morning at 3:05am. We just got back from hospital, and she’s getting some rest. (It was just about impossible to sleep at the hospital, exhausted or not.)
My daughter is sleeping, too. I’m just e-mailing family, friends, co-workers, MLAs, ex-roommates, beleagured Nigerian widows, etc with the news - and I thought I’d include the SDMB, since I was thoughtless enough to casually mention my wife’s water broke in a sorta-but-not-really-appropriate thread.
The first diaper change was more dramatic than I expected, really. I was prepared for a little meconium, in the abstract sense. Not the rivers of it that were actually forthcoming, though – It really did put me in the mind of the title sequence from The Beverly Hillbillies. It also confirmed that I’m a Doper, because when she started letting loose again as soon as the soiled diaper was away, I had to explain in detail about the thread here that I’d read with interest (“Stop shing your f*ing pants!”) and how I’d utterly failed to integrate the sage advice of more experienced parents contained therein.
Anyway - forgive the laconic OP. I’m just gonna go watch her breathe a little more. Faaaaascinating.
Second, I find it hilarious that your wife looks well-rested and ready to take on the world, while you and the baby look like you could use a nap. She must be a heck of a woman.
Congrats Larry, life, as you know it, is over, to be replaced by something far, far more interesting. (Psst! Did you send your wife Thank You flowers? Get her a necklace? Something? Really, the woman just made you a Daddy. Step up.)
Congrats! I must admit I felt a pang of envy when you said that your wife was due in two weeks and then posted that her water broke. Actually, I felt like I wanted to reach through my screen and punch you in the dick. My due date is today and I have no signs of anything impending.
She’s beautiful, and your wife looks fabulous for having just had a baby!
