A Mindful Life

Home at last.
Exhausted beyond comprehension.
Problems with breastfeeding and some weight loss.
A few photos up at Flickr. Not great quality — a hospital isn’t the best setting. Don’t know when I’ll take more or upload more. Responded to contact friend requests.
Pain from incision. Hormonal.
She is our beautiful pixie and the most amazing, miraculous event of [...]

While the hospital has wireless access, it blocks certain sites, and one of them is Flickr. So until we get home, we are unable to upload photos or approve contacts. I promise to upload asap and will post when they are up.
We likely won’t be going home until Wednesday the 12th. I was in labor [...]

We joyfully announce the birth of our daughter!
Claire Georgia Harper
Date: September 8, 2007
Time: 12:49 a.m. PDT
Weight: 7 lb, 1 oz.
Length: 20 in
At this time I don’t intend to publish photos of my child on the blog for the whole world. However, I will upload photos to my Flickr account, which is http://www.flickr.com/photos/mindfulone/. (It may [...]

Just got the call from the hospital to report at 1 a.m. for the induction.
I’m gonna have a baby!

It is now near 9:00 p.m. on Thursday. Below is what I wrote earlier today, but did not publish at the time because Husband asked me to wait and breathe a bit.
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Written Thursday morning around 9:00 a.m.
With the exception of a couple hours of dozing, I’ve been awake since 9:30 a.m. on September 5. I [...]

We were called and went to the hospital at 8 p.m. A cheery nurse did an exam and said I was one centimeter dilated, 60% effaced (up from 10% last week), and the baby was much lower. All good. In fact, she said I was in the ideal stage for the gel and induction.
She monitored [...]

As is the way of life, the hospital doesn’t have room for us to come in at 6 p.m. as scheduled for the gel. A bunch of women in labor recently came in. The nurse said she’d call us in a few hours when a room opens up.
I don’t know if this means that [...]

This post is updated; see below.
Yesterday we took a walk to let gravity help get things going. Little One responded with much activity, squirming and positioning herself further in the pelvis. She was active late last night, too, and in the wee hours. I also had backache/cramps in the wee hours.
Then it subsided. Today [...]

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
–Mark Twain

Well, I wish I had news to share.
But as of this moment, Little One continues to hang out. Early this morning I awoke to a dull low backache that lasted for a few moments, but otherwise all is quiet.
Believe me, when the action starts in earnest, I’ll definitely post the news.