They do seem to like each other. Sophia is always eager to hold Christopher though admittedly her interest tends to wane after a half-minute or so.
His little neck is remarkably strong and his eyes seem so infinitely curious.
Monday, March 26, 2007
Some recent pictures
They do seem to like each other. Sophia is always eager to hold Christopher though admittedly her interest tends to wane after a half-minute or so.His little neck is remarkably strong and his eyes seem so infinitely curious.
Friday, March 16, 2007
The Siblings
Sophia met her little brother in mid-afternoon on Thursday March 15. She ran to mom's bedside and in mid-hug saw her little brother sleeping beside Cecilia and uttered in a kind of combined sense of awe, surprise and wonder "bebis". It was a bit of a cautious approach at first and she gently reached out and touched him saying softly "klappa" (to stroke or pet). It wasn't long before she was eager to hold him and on her face was what I can only seem to described as pride and fascination. Here she was holding her little brother. The concept of birth, brothers and babies are slightly too big for her to fully grasp with her mere 2 years of gathered wisdom, but somewhere inside her head the wheels were spinning and we like to think that she kind of gets it. Sophia is a big sister and a good one, so far, at that.
Late Night Fika with Dad
In contrast to the ceasarian for Sophia's birth, the local anestetic thankfully worked while on the operating table and Cecilia was able to be conscious for the procedure. Cecilia had the chance to cuddle with her baby boy in some brief and heartfilled minutes.
Christopher Hayden Scott received his names after both his maternal (Krister) and paternal (Scott) grandfathers. Hayden was thrown in for good measure.
Speaking of measures, shortly after his birth both dad and baby left the operating theatre to do the standard weights and measurements. Christopher weighed-in at 3550 grams and was 52cm long. He had a normal body temperature. After getting diapered and swaddled in a warm blanket he and dad then were given what is the very uniquely Swedish tradition of fika.
Essentially, fika is an all-encompassing name for a coffee break. There doesn't necessarily have to be coffee, nor food, but it is certainly a break. Perhaps a better translation would be in essence to a "pause amid the chaos". Thus, Christopher and his dad took pause.
The post-trauma fika this time was equally as surreal as it was during Sophia's birth though admittedly this time Jamie expected it and had the sense to photograph the moment for posterity's sake.
Poor Cecilia meanwhile received no fika per se. She was busy being sewn-up on an operating table and thereafter attempting to gain back movement and feeling in her extremities. After approximately three hours, Cecilia could lift her legs under her own strength and was given permission to leave the post-op and was wheeled to rejoin her "two guys".
Christopher Hayden Scott received his names after both his maternal (Krister) and paternal (Scott) grandfathers. Hayden was thrown in for good measure.
Speaking of measures, shortly after his birth both dad and baby left the operating theatre to do the standard weights and measurements. Christopher weighed-in at 3550 grams and was 52cm long. He had a normal body temperature. After getting diapered and swaddled in a warm blanket he and dad then were given what is the very uniquely Swedish tradition of fika.
Essentially, fika is an all-encompassing name for a coffee break. There doesn't necessarily have to be coffee, nor food, but it is certainly a break. Perhaps a better translation would be in essence to a "pause amid the chaos". Thus, Christopher and his dad took pause.
The post-trauma fika this time was equally as surreal as it was during Sophia's birth though admittedly this time Jamie expected it and had the sense to photograph the moment for posterity's sake.
Poor Cecilia meanwhile received no fika per se. She was busy being sewn-up on an operating table and thereafter attempting to gain back movement and feeling in her extremities. After approximately three hours, Cecilia could lift her legs under her own strength and was given permission to leave the post-op and was wheeled to rejoin her "two guys".
Just Before Midnight CET
Wednesday, March 14 seem to last forever. Or rather, it was segmented into too numerous to remember contractions, visits by doctors, nurses & midwives, and much talk of this mysterious being making moves inside Cecilia.
We were admitted to the maternity ward at 7am and given a remarkably comfy delivery room complete with lazy-boy chair for "the dad". Cecilia had been having contractions since early the previous evening and had slept very little. The admitting mid-wife correctly sensed our exhaustion and prescribed us rest - with some sleeping pill assistance. Jamie didn't get a pill but he slept like a log and he, the mom, and the soon-to-be child were back to life around 1pm. At that point, contractions were still consistent but the overall delivery process was going slow.
As the day turned to night, the staff at Uppsala's Akademiska hospital opted to initiate the delivery by breaking the water. The process did not necessarily speed up, though the pain and contractions did and thereby resulted in an epidural for Cecilia. As the evening wore on a concern arouse around the baby's heart rate. At the end of each contraction, the baby's heart rate would drop drastically from 130bpm to below 60 only to within seconds come back above 170 and then stabilise again around 130. This caused the attending medical staff concern and was the eventual reason we ended up on an operating table at just after 11pm. We would later learn that the embilical cord was wrapped around our baby's neck and was causing a kind of asphixia as the uterus contracted the baby downward.
Our baby boy came into the world on Wednesday, March 14 at 23:50.
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