A New Addition

I'm sure people wonder how I forget these things, but to follow up with the story about Padme's labor, she continued the drip last Friday to see if she would go ahead and go into labor, have contractions, etc. Well, as in Thursday, nothing happened, and finally, the doctor decided they needed to go ahead and get the baby out of there via C-Section. The Queen called me at work, and at first, they were going to take her in at 3, but then, I got a frantic call back saying she was going in "right now," and that she was coming to get me ASAP.

This whole rigamarole caused some tension between us since she wanted to be there for the birth, and didn't want to miss anything, especially the baby coming out into the nursery, so it was a very, very tense ride. This was a situation I knew it was best to leave alone, so the ride was also very silent as we cruised toward the hospital.

We got there just in time. The baby wasn't out yet, but they were in surgery at that point taking care of it, and to our surprise, Darth (who had always said he would refuse to go back) followed his husband instincts and accompanied Padme into the delivery room for the cutting. We waited.

Not too long passed before Darth showed up with a small bundle and walked into the nursery accompanied by a nurse. He relinquished his child, who is a boy that we'll obviously have to call Luke, to the nurses for the battery of testing that babies undergo when born nowadays. Everything was fine, but we learned why the baby wasn't engaging, and why she wasn't going into labor.

Turns out the umbilical cord was wrapped around the baby's neck...twice. This means that the child could not engage without being strangled. If they hadn't pulled him out, there's no telling what could have happened. The optimist says that he might have woked himself free and come out without any problems in time. The realist would say that without the C-Section, the child would not have survived.

Bottom line is that it doesn't matter. He's with us now, and he's healthy and perfect.

The tension between the Queen and I, however, over us conducting a normal day due to the indecision over what would happen lead to my leaving her alone the majority of the time we were there, and my never being given the opportunity to hold the baby. Naturally, the Queen was allowed to, but I was allowed to stay in the waiting room after a time and leave her and her family alone. That really wasn't a good day either. Oh well.

We did go back on Saturday, and at that time, I was allowed a time to hold him. That was nice. I'm not totally cold hearted. Babies are nice to hold.