A Small Warning

While Simon and I are doing this to keep our friends/family/acquaintences in the know and so that we can remember the experience - we know that a great many people forget the insane emotions that go through them at a time like this. They remember joy, nervousness and excitement but tend to forget things like annoyance, anger and exhaustion. This is also a little bit of an experiment for us as well as (hopefully) a bit of reality for someone else out there who wants a bit of a real play-by-play of the emotional rollercoaster of childbirth and parenting. ...granted, I know that my experience is only one...but hey...still worth trying.

That said, not all of this blog is going to be happy and shiny. There will be some real, raw emotions here and we're going to express them pretty openly. We hope that this doesn't make anyone feel as if we're in any way unhappy about the birth of our son or that we're somehow not excited or don't love him. For us, this is the reality of things that people don't really talk about or express. I think that is extremely important to remember.

We may use foul language. ...you're warned.

Monday, August 23, 2010

Tuesday, 11:26 am

So Sandra's snoozing for a bit - yeah, she should be walking around and so forth, but she's pretty damn exhausted and I figure a bit of sleep now while she /can/ is probably reasonable. Being too tired to do anything later on seems like a bad idea, anyway.

So far it's been an interesting 24 hours, what with the whole stressed Sandra thing last night, and then waters breaking at 6:30 in the morning and everything following that. For my part it's been a lot less stressed than it's been for Sandra - in fact, I've been almost relaxed about everything, rather than freaking out like the stereotypical dad-to-be. I imagine once Sandra's screaming in pain and so on I'll be a lot less relaxed, but I'm enjoying it while I can.

The most annoying thing so far this morning is the parking, or lack thereof - the hospital is getting a fair bit of building work done, and there's almost literally no parking. The closest I could find to reasonable parking was probably a ten minute walk away, well outside the hospital grounds. I've had to park in one of the short term bays for the moment so I could bring the last of Sandra's stuff up, and I'll have to go make the long trek from wherever I can find a spot in a bit . . .

Not what I thought the big day would be like.

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