Post #270,593
10/17/06 7:40:38 PM
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Update #1.
Okay, some more details.
My son's name is Nicholas Hamish. He was born at about 7:40am yesterday (17th October). He weighed in at 3.88kh/8lb8oz as I've already posted, and 54cm/21in long. So he's large, but not too big, and long. He's got black hair already and my nose.
Delivery was cesaerean section. I wasn't there because my wife and her family decided I wasn't going to be there for my son, so they didn't call me. The epidural didn't work, I'm told, which I got the impression from the nursing staff that this was not uncommon, but Rachael's mother thought was quite rare.
I've been into see little Nicholas and I got fantastic support from my sister and my brother and his family and then from my parents, since they got back from a trip yesterday afternoon.
[link|http://yceran.org/nicholas/10hoursold-small.jpg|10 hours old - little Nicholas in the arms of my wife] (54K image)
Wade.
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Post #270,596
10/17/06 7:53:48 PM
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Ummm, hate to ask this but ...
Isn't that a somewhat odd thing for your wife to think?
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Post #270,606
10/17/06 8:27:51 PM
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That I wasn't going to be there?
Or that epidurals failing was not uncommon? As for the latter, I have no idea. AFAIK, a failing epidural is usually replaced by a general anaesthetic, which would be relatively routine.
As for the former, well, my wife and I are in disagreement about the state of the world at the moment, if you get my drift.
Wade.
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Post #270,610
10/17/06 8:47:09 PM
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Sorry to hear that
Hope things improve soon.
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Post #270,635
10/18/06 2:34:39 AM
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That was a ****ing bitchy thing to do.
And when she comes to her senses, you can tell her she owes you fucking big-time for that.
As for her family, tell them (right away), if they *ever* pull any shit like that again, you won't have *anything* to do with them ever again, and you'll do your level best to ensure that they get to see as little as possible of *your* son, too.
How the fuck DARE they?!?
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Post #270,637
10/18/06 3:20:50 AM
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She feels I owe her anyway.
I pretty upset for quite a while when I first heard.
I've been frustrating her mother for a little while now because she wants to lay into me about how I've treated her daughter, but I've stopped standing there taking it and answering back just encourages her. I've hung up on her at least once, and I've walked out of rooms several times. A few times I've informed her that her memory of events is faulty and left it at that. She has resisting accepting that I will not discuss past events with her whilst she is being combatative and certainly about things I can't change.
So I'm already having as little to do with as possible. And made it clear that it's her mother who is inflaming things.
Wade.
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Post #270,639
10/18/06 3:38:00 AM
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Good for you! Keep it up, and good luck.
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Post #270,663
10/18/06 11:27:01 AM
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It can be advantageous to have your MIL on another continent
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Post #270,669
10/18/06 11:59:01 AM
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I'd prefer a different planet
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Post #270,672
10/18/06 12:18:36 PM
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Naw, she's not that bad
and besides, we can't communicate anyway (she doesn't speak English).
--Tony
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Post #270,679
10/18/06 1:30:41 PM
8/21/07 5:47:03 AM
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Lucky you
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Post #270,745
10/18/06 8:23:52 PM
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That's what sign language is for
and we all know some good ones
Hehe!
Smile,
Amy
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Post #270,761
10/18/06 9:23:47 PM
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I used to get on okay with her.
But we made the mistake of picking a place within an easy drive of her parents. Bad move. If we'd started a lot further away, then we'd have had to rely on them less and we would have had to solve things without our parents. Which isn't really solving things. So issues that a couple should normally take a few years to sort out stayed unsorted out until she couldn't take it anymore. Her mother is, not surprisingly, siding with her daughter over things.
Wade.
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Post #270,696
10/18/06 4:14:29 PM
8/21/07 5:47:42 AM
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An imminent father's place is at the bar down the street
What are you gonna do anyhow? She's dosed, they're slicing and stitching, the baby is waaay too traumatized to know who is there. So what can you add?
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Post #270,698
10/18/06 4:17:16 PM
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Better yet - hunting and/or fishing.
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Post #270,699
10/18/06 4:20:15 PM
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Or watching it on YouTube from the Comfy Chair.
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Post #270,748
10/18/06 8:27:15 PM
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<timallen>Grunt! Grunt!</timallen>
Smile,
Amy
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Post #270,759
10/18/06 9:19:05 PM
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I was more upset I didn't *know*, not that I wasn't there.
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