Tag: Birth

Moxie Eleanor Dorsey-Lee

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We worked all day on Labor day and all we got was this stupid baby:

Baby Back Ribs on special!  Choicest Cuts available!
$1.49/lb with Club Savings Card ™
($2.19 regular)

As you an see from the Olympic Warm-Scale, she weighed 7 lb., 15.8 oz. at birth, which we also just call 8 lb.   As I’m sure you all know, the base of the Olympic Warm-Scale infant holder module is 50 cm, so you can also see that she was 21.5 in. in length, with a head/chest circumference of 33.5/32 cm.

If you haven’t seen pictures of a newborn before, some of what you see may be concerning, but it isn’t.   For example, the giant white stick protruding from her stomach is a handle for portability; you just don’t see them used anymore because of the misinformation campaign perpetrated by the tyrannical monopoly of Ergobaby, inc.   Also, her sex is female.

Other anatomical questions are suppressed to maintain some level of decorum on this blog, but may be directed to Teresa Lee, because she will cut you if you say shit about this baby.

Finally, her APGAR score was 5 gold stars and a recommendation for knighthood.

Niagara Falls

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Water has broken, onto the kitchen floor,

With each coughing, a full pint more,
I laughed and I laughed, a very bad idea,
But still I maintain, better than diarrhea
Midwife has spoken, pack up the car,
Jess is a trooper, revived by a shower,
Praise for the baby bag, for an easy bon jour,
Praise for the Wendy’s, open 24-hour.
(with apologies to Eleanor Farjoen)
We are at the hospital.  We have a nurse named Charlotte.    The baby has not arrived, so we’re all awkwardly standing around.
Jess is asleep, thankfully.  The midwife comes tomorrow when labour is active.  (She never eats the crust, either.)
A warning to interested parties: We will not be able to take the baby home with us because we brought so much stuff.  They will hold her for us, though, so we will be able to pick her up next time we make it to Rockville.

Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3.

Posted on by jesslee

Hi Friends and Family!

Jess would later give birth to a 4 of diamonds.
Was that the card you were thinking of?

As we await (not so patiently) the arrival of our daughter we thought we would get our blog up and running.  We want to share our adventures with you but weren’t sure the right medium to do so.  We considered phone trees, beginning with our moms and letting the information branch out from there, hand written letters using carbon paper, email updates, and an MTV reality show.  After serious review we figured out this blog would be our choice. Anyway, please check in with us every once in a while and see how things are developing in our neck of the woods.

In the news: Little Missy Colorado’s due date *was* August 23rd.  However, here, today August 28th she still remains snuggled comfortably in my gut.  Our new working theory is that she is actually an elephant and will need 22 months to gestate instead of the measly nine human babies need.  Actually, our midwife practice will induce labor at 42 weeks so worst case is this child will be born around September 6th. 

We are all set for LMC’s arrival.  We have our hospital bag packed (mostly) and the various numbers programed into our phones.  We will let you know as soon as something happens.

Well, welcome to the blog!  We hope it won’t be too terribly boring.

Jess and Strider