Ariana's Corner

Ariana Jewel Lynne joined us tonight around 10pm. She weighed 8lbs 13 ounces and had a full head of hair. This post will be edited later with more details.

Well yesterday I met the doctor and he is a really nice man. I had wanted to meet him much earlier, but work permitting I never had a chance until now. Tara had a doctor's appointment yesterday down in Orillia and I came along for the ride. The morning started off with an ultrasound that revealed that the baby was likely 8 1/2 pounds although the doctor said the ultrasound can be out a pound either up or down and he suspects the baby is bigger than the ultrasound technician told us. Tara was told to come back next week and at that time the doctor would give us a date of when the baby will be born. He suspect it will be the last week of January as originally told. Also more or less confirmed that it will be a planned c-section, which is not exactly what we wanted to hear, but in the long run it will be less pain for Tara than trying push a baby that is too big out the other way.

The Father-to-be

Well Tara had her first doctor's appointment for this year yesterday. The baby's head is right in the pelvic area causing her a lot of pain especially when she sits down. Also, the doctor is now saying the baby may be too big to come down the birth canal, so there might be a c-section. He has scheduled an ultrasound for next Wednesday, so we will know more then. He says if the baby is less than 8 pounds she can probably deliver naturally, but anything bigger and he will be scheduling a c-section for the next available time. Now I wonder if that means Wednesday night or sometime Thursday? Either way it has me excited that the long anticipated wait might finally be over. We shall see when it comes and if anyone was right on any of the predictions made.