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Great picture!

But wouldn't Ken be your first blog child?

That would mean that Ken has two mommies.;)

-- SusanS - 07 May 2006

Oh he's gorgeous. And so tiny for his weight!

Terri, you look very healthy for someone who has just had a baby.

-- TracyW - 07 May 2006

oh gosh, hard to think of Ken as a blog-child - hmm....

we do need a name for D-ed Reckoning's relationship to ktm, though

-- CatherineJohnson - 08 May 2006

Ken may have to be a SPIN-OFF!

-- CatherineJohnson - 08 May 2006

We can all start calling Ken "Frazier."

-- CatherineJohnson - 08 May 2006

Oh, this is so sweet! What a pleasant surprise to greet me when I hit "refresh."

TracyW^?: All of his weight is in his shoulders and barrel chest. It's so cute. Heh.

We are doing ok. Here are the gritty details, for anyone who might be interested: It turns out that we had "velamentous insertion of the umbilical cord" which is a fancy pants term for the cord being weakly attached to the placenta. We were very, very, very blessed that the cord did not break away from the placenta at any moment during the pregnancy or birth up until the one that it actually did -- during the last pushes when he came out. Otherwise, we would have been looking at an almost certain death situation. [And it seems that it would have been the case regardless if we had had the birth in the hospital, as opposed to home.] As it was, he came out blue and required some CPR, but bounced back very quickly and seems to be doing just fine.

Apparently the condition is just rare enough that it's not something that is routinely checked for during an ultrasound. [They have to do a special sort of ultrasound to check for it.]

Then, because the cord was no longer attached to the placenta, it had to be, uh, manually removed rather than tugged out by the cord. If that hadn't worked, I would have been in for a ride to the ER. But, again, we were very blessed.

Now we are just working through the same breastfeeding issues we had with Audrey -- they both were born with large overbites and could not latch. He can latch maybe once a day where she couldn't do it at all ... but it still means pumping every two hours around the clock until we can work it out. [It took three months for Audrey's mouth to develop enough to latch. Someone please come medicate me if it takes that long this time, too.]

Again, thanks so much!

-- TerriWheeler - 08 May 2006

Congratulations, Terri!

I love those new pictures where the mom looks all happy and exhausted at the same time.

-- CarolynJohnston - 08 May 2006

I love those new pictures where the mom looks all happy and exhausted at the same time.

Me too. I think we all have pictures like that. It's that "I'm never going to sleep again, but I'm happy anyway" look.

We don't mind hearing war stories, Terri. I'm just glad it all worked out. Thank God for modern medicine.

-- SusanS - 08 May 2006

oh my gosh; that's scary.....(I've never heard of velamentous insertion of the umbilical cord)

-- CatherineJohnson - 08 May 2006

how did they figure out that he did have this problem???

thank God you're both OK

as to the second issue, 3 words: ELECTRIC BREAST PUMP

I had one with the twins (actually, I may have had one with Jimmy, come to think of it).

They're weird, but they work!

-- CatherineJohnson - 08 May 2006

I love those new pictures where the mom looks all happy and exhausted at the same time.

I know!

I had a friend who wanted to do a whole book of those photos.

I would love that -

-- CatherineJohnson - 08 May 2006

I like war stories

-- CatherineJohnson - 08 May 2006

I love those new pictures where the mom looks all happy and exhausted at the same time.

I love those photos where the father is grinning away like a maniac and the mother is there in the background barely able to keep her eyes open.

Or perhaps it's my friends who love those photos, which is why Terri looks in such good health to me by comparison.

-- TracyW - 08 May 2006

lol!

-- CatherineJohnson - 08 May 2006