Kenneth Alois Vasilik It's a boy! Our first child is born. | ||
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| During labor, a machine monitors the baby's heart beat and mommy's contractions. His heart rate is 139 beats/min and the 69 indicates that Sylvia is in the middle of a contraction. | Here are the two plotted against each other. Notice that his heart rate goes down during a contraction, and recovers after it. (Heart rate on top, contraction pressure on the bottom). | |
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| Shortly after he is born (10:57 AM, Sunday October 26, 2003), he is weighed. 8 pounds, 6.6 ounces. 20 1/2 inches long. | Sylvia (Mommy!) is happy it's over! | |
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| Eric (Daddy!) is pretty happy himself. | Do you see a resemblance? I do! | |
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| "Breastfeeding is painless" -- NOT! | Lot's of friends came to visit. Terry and Sue Lucas. Grace Colton and Gary Burd also visited (I didn't get a picture of them:-) | |
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| Ilana Long. | Shannon and ... | |
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| Rod Chavez. | Steve (the big one), Benjamin and Marina Blatt (Steve's married to Ilana) | |
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| Ready to go home! | The whole Family! | |
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| How to swaddle! | We get a lesson in swaddling from one of the wonderful nurses at Overlake Hospital. | |
