Sunday, January 18, 2009
Saturday, September 27, 2008
The amazing, extraordinary tale of Luna's birth
It was 1:45 AM on the 18 of September when Gabi woke up after hearing what she thought it was the slight cracking sound of her water breaking. (She was right; I had no idea that one could actually hear waters breaking.) She immediately grabbed the phone and called the doctor's office. Gabi told the doctor on call (who was not her primary OB-Gyn, but someone from the same practice we've actually seen a couple of times) that her water just broke and asked what she should do next. The doctor asked how strong and frequent her contractions were; Gabi said something like "I feel fine, nothing too different from earlier today". So the doctor just told her "OK, it seems you're not ready just yet. Go back to bed and call me in the morning". So Gabi just came back to bed, but unsurprisingly, she started having frequent, strong contractions very soon after she hung up the phone.
We stayed in bed for a while until about 3:00 AM, when we decided to just run to the hospital without calling the doctor. But it seems that the business of taking showers, getting dressed, putting some stuff together, and calling our friend Diane downstairs took much longer than expected (we had asked Diane to come upstairs to our apartment and babysit Maia when the time came.) When Diane came in (dragging a pillow, virtually sleepwalking), Gabi was already in opera singer mode in the bathroom, which not only woke Maia up, but probably the whole neighborhood. Maia was actually not freaking out, but was clearly impressed to see her normally composed mother hitting high soprano notes like that. From that moment on, I did everything I had to do (the phone calls, the stuff-gathering, etc.) with Maia hanging from my side, running around like a cartoon character.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
La increible, fantastica historia del nacimiento de Luna
A la 1:45 AM del Jueves 18 de Septiembre, la Gabi se (me) despertó habiendo escuchado un leve "crack" que ella atribuyó al ruido de la rotura de las membranas del liquido amniótico (yo no tenia idea que tal cosa se pudiera "escuchar", lo que es cool). Lo primero que la Gabi hace es tomar el telefono y llamar al numero de emergencia con el que se puede hablar directamente con un doctor a cualquier hora (el doctor puede ser el de uno, o puede que sea otro de la misma oficina, que fue lo que terminó pasando.) La Gabi, que estaba muy en buena, cero stress, le contó a esta doctora lo que habia pasado. La doctora le preguntó si ya le habian comenzado las contracciones fuertes, y la Gabi le dijo que no, que no sentia nada muy distinto a lo que habia sentido ese dia, a lo que la doctora replicó: "OK, usted al parecer no esta por dar a luz, asi que vuelvase a la cama y me llama tempranito en la mañana". La Gabi le hizo caso, aunque por supuesto, las contracciones feroces le comenzaron muy poco despues de que colgo el telefono.

Saturday, September 20, 2008
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Saturday, September 08, 2007
So much to do, so little (summer) time
Their heads are still spinnin'... such amateurs!
By the way, we got this incredibly cool set of matching "Team Opazo" shirts from our good friend Bibsi. Lookin' gooood!
... and Juju came to see me!
Diggin' for gold in Silver Lake. Found a couple of nice bottle caps that were shiny and cool. I kept them and told no-bo-dy. Hush -hush, la, la la.