JZ got the epi, she's relaxing and not in pain - is dialted to 3 to 4 cm, baby is at minus 1 and her head is touchable. JZ will sleep through the night, and they think they're going to be ready to go at 6 a.m.

Can I put in a request for whatever spare 'ma you have lying around that is not belong to JZ?

(Particularly around noon CST, by which time I fully expect that JZ will be done with in anyway and instead collecting all your squee.)

I just got off the phone with David.

The epidural worked, and JZ is pushing now. They expect to achieve Zmaybaby within the next hour!

Just got off the phone with Hec. Halloweenie just wouldn't come out, so they are headed in for a c-section now. All is still good with the baby.

YAY!

Zmayhem baby is here, and has been since 9:35. She was 6 pounds 5 ounces, and 19 inches long. She looks like JZ. Mom, Dad and Baby are fine. Well, Mom is tired, Baby's head got a little squashed because she got a little stuck, and Dad sounds smitten, but otherwise all is good.

JZ will be in the hospital until Saturday because of the C-section.

Birth details here

DavidS "Spike's Bitches 32: I think I'm sobering up." Sep 26, 2006 9:44:26 pm PDT

I've been nominated for two Ovation Awards again this year. One in small theatre, one in large theatre. These are sorta the closest thing we have to the Tonys on the West Coast.

xpost with Bitches but I know some people are keeping track over here.

Matilda had to be taken to the NICU last night. She had bile in her stomach and had to have it pumped out. Apparently she swallowed some of her own mess in utero while doing her practice breathing before she was born.

Matilda was getting fussy and distressed last night so JZ called the nurse to bring her over to the bed. The nurse patted Matilda on the back and some dark mucus came up. They took her to the nursery and she vomited some more dark stuff. So they took her to the NICU to get her stomach suctioned out. JZ went down there at 2:30am and held Matilda while they did the procedures and stayed with her until 5:30. That's not how you want to spend the night after you've had abdominal surgery!

Poor little Matilda, that's a fine welcome to the world. And poor JZ being up all night and moving around after a C-section.

So I'll make it back over there in time for rounds and hear what the doctors say. Night nurse said there's a good chance she'll be released back to us today since the stomach was suctioned twice and sonogram shows no intestinal blockage. So it looks like everything's out that needs to be out and I hope that is all the problem that's going on.

There may not be much spare "hope for the best" lying about at the moment, but if you have any, please aim it briefly at San Rafael, California. My friend Beth, whose picture ought to be used in the dictionary to illustrate the word "sweetiepie", has just been told that she has fast-moving fatal scleroderma. They're giving her five years if she's lucky. She's in her early forties.

Thanks.

xpost w/Bitches:

Just got off the phone with Hec, and little Matilda is doing fine. She had an upper GI series done this morning, which came back completely normal, so the docs suspect she just swallowed some gunk in utero. She should be released from the NICU at 3 this afternoon.

As for JZ, she's showered and caffeinated and feeling like, and I quote, "the happiest girl in the world."