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he's here

Banneker Lewis Moore

named after Benjamin Banneker look it up!

July 25, 2009

8:54 p.m.

8# 6 oz

20 inches

Yes he really IS that cute.

At home now.

Visiting hours: not now

donations at the door: accepting 24/7

more info as we can

send your "out now" vibes

So today is officially 42 weeks. It's a long time to be in the mama. Lots of women hold them in longer. We aren't trying to keep him in too long but we have been letting him have his own time in there and in true Metry Moore fashion, he's chillin'. So now we are telling him he has to come. Not because we have it out for him or we've run out of patience or whatever but because now is the time. Like when you move your baby from the crib (or your bed) to his own bed.

We have had to endure the absolute ridiculousness of Kaiser Permanente and their protocol for a woman at 42 weeks, which is geriatric to them. To give you a small taste of how "seriously concerned for my well being" they are...they called the police when we missed an appointment to come to our house and see if we were okay today. Seriously they did...any lawyers out there? I think it's an invasion of privacy or something. So we had him checked on today (monitored), strong little heartbeat, all is well and we SPRUNG up out of there, determined to come back in labor on our own without their well meaning concern.

So send us out your energy for labor now and protection from the evils of KP!

We love you and hope to have news tomorrow. He's a LEO now.

Good Things Come to Those Who Wait

Well we are rapidly approaching the day where we are going to have to check ourselves into the hospital and bring our son into this world and the one thing I have learned from all of this is.....patience. This Journey with my wife has been an amazing one as I know all fathers, old and new can attest to. We have both grandmothers here at the house and they are eagerly awaiting their new grandson. Here's Nana Moore having a bite of lunch and braving the chilly Emmeryville Marina. Hopefully She will see her new grandson this week.

fruit

…low hanging fruit,

...fruit of our labor,

...fruit of the loom.

We had a midwife appointment today that turned into a lot of things besides just an appt to check out our health and wellbeing. Which we are all doing fine, strong and healthy. What started as a scheduled appt became a Kaiser induced series of fear-based procedures including 2 ultra sounds, combined 90 minutes of fetal monitoring, an induction date set, admission to the hospital labor and delivery department, discharge from the hospital labor and delivery department and of course that warm Kaiser reception we were totally expecting (not really). In the picture are my admission bracelet and discharge papers, solid proof of the administrative fees we will now owe Kaiser because they don’t want us to take them to the bank.

And so it feels a little like we have labored today and not really seen the fruits of our labor however if you count the fact that we are now safely at home in the VERY early stages of laboring for our son, and not connected to Pitocin and epiderals, we have the first fruits of our labor. We are depending on some of the classics (walking, warm baths, staying busy), and some of our preferred methods like- herbs, acupuncture and some patience. With all that Kaiser put us through yesterday, I said to Jeff maybe they were wrong about the boy part, but we did see him looking adorable in the ultra sound and still sporting his little boy parts waiting to fit into his first pair of fruit of the looms . So we will wait and see and trust the process. I am feeling a little like he is the low hanging fruit right now, the kind that is ripe and within reach but still connected to the tree. We will let you know when the pickin' happens.

07.08.09

The guess date.

But sheesh the pressure.

The natural birth community will tell you not to hang on to the date but it's hard not to AND when it's that cool of a number, you get a little invested. If we did it again I'd ask them to go ahead and add two weeks and tell me that number. You spend the first 35 weeks trying not to deliver then all you want to do is deliver. It's like how you spend all those years trying NOT to get pregnant and then when you want to it's not easy. Well, for some people.

I stopped working this week and spent the week preparing what we can for the arrival. It was kind of nice, like a little UNPAID vacation. I sat in the sun, grocery shopped, cooked, cleaned, rearranged, organized, finished knitting (see pic) and relaxed. In the meantime Jeff started working this week, nothing permanent yet but something for him to do and apparently a great excuse to not hang out with the Metry gals. My mom is here and doing all she can to help prepare, thanks mom!

I am going to go type out our birth plan now. That and pay the bills and we should be REALLY ready to go. Check back for updates.

52 Celebrations!

I thought about changing the name of the blog today and then decided -every week should be a celebration if you are a newlywed, newlyparent, newlyemployed or whatever. I am also celebrating this blog as our way to stay connected and will use it to update you whenever possible. This is OUR Facebook and if you are interested add it to your bookmarks and check it whenever you need to do a little celebrating.

We are here celebrating..life.
Join us we have a new page, do you?

Then celebrate it!

Check out what we celebrated back in February.