Little Sean and I got back last night from New York for a surprise visit to Oma and Opa’s house (my dad and Colleen) in New York. They are due to come visit in a week or so for their spring break, but I couldn’t pass up an opportunity to surprise them! I surprised Colleen at her work and Dad at home when he got home from work. They were just thrilled to meet Little Sean for the first time and spent all four days with him in their arms! They are definitely in love! I snapped a lot of pictures, including some of my mom tapping her maple trees at the cabin to make maple syrup. All in all, it was a great visit and we look forward to having my Dad and Colleen visit us in a little over a week!
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We got the photo CD from Steph Carson yesterday, and they turned out great 🙂 I’ll let Emily post how to get to the photos and stuff – we will have to resize them to fit in our gallery but will also provide a link that people can use to order copies of the photos. I’ll post some later this evening to the gallery.
click the photo for more.
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Little Sean had quite the adventurous 24 hours! Last night everyone came over to watch Lost, and afterwards, my mom and aunt joked (I thought) about taking him for the night after I made a comment about needing to get to bed because I was tired. After some astonishment on my part, and explanation on their part that between the two of them they had 8 kids and besides, really really wanted a night with him, they took our little boy across the street for his first sleepover at Grandma’s house. He did wonderful overnight with them and they soaked up every minute. It was hard for me to get him back, as they wanted to kidnap him forever! It was such a sweet gesture; Paul and I got some very much needed time together that we haven’t had in over 4 weeks. It was nice to just have the two of us for awhile and spend quality time together 🙂
When they brought Sean back to me this morning, he was so cute! He immediately snuggled up to me and seemed to be saying “oh mommy, I missed you!” I pulled him away from me and started talking to him and he smiled his very first smile at me! My mom saw it too and we were amazed and excited!! I hope he does it again soon, it just melted my heart!
We also went on our first neighborhood walk today. He was wrapped up in his sling that his Auntie Megan got him and fell right asleep. It was nice to get out and get a little exercise and enjoy the nice weather!
Steph Carson (the photographer that took Brian and Ashley’s wedding pictures) is coming tomorrow morning to take professional pictures of Sean. We are really excited to see how they turn out! Steph is amazing.
My mom also took some pictures of Sean and me. I don’t have any (except for the hospital ones) of the two of us. Click below to see them:
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Click here for the album from today (we’ll add more when Philip comes to visit tonight). Lots of cute ones! Sean had his first feeding last night and took to it like a champ, but was more finicky today so we had to feed him some formula. He’s been sleeping ever since. Emily got to change a poopy diaper today, and this morning he peed on the doctor. Emily plans on posting tonight on her labor and delivery so stay tuned!
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11:56pm
Sean Andrew Cahill was born at 6:27pm. He weighs 7 pounds, 2.8oz and is 21 inches long. We are exhausted, as is Sean. He just got done with his first meal, thanks to Emily’s mobile lunch carts 😉 He really latched onto feeding. Very few problems so far! I got the “honor” of cleaning the first diaper. Sean gave me the honor of filling the diaper two more times while I was trying to change the initial gift.
I think I may try to hit the hay for a while. I suspect we will be up a couple times tonight.
We have a big window in our room so I should be able to get some nice natural light shots.
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4:45pm
Nurse just came in and put emily in an upright position to help her “labor-down”. did a check and she is now at 9cm!!! Shouldn’t be too much longer :)Â Mom is still in great spirits and saving her strength for the pushin.
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3:05pm
I took a video of the heart monitor that baby Sean is attached to. Basically there is a tube that connects to his scalp to monitor his heart rate. Emily is now 100% efaced.
http://paulandemily.com/videos/SeanAndrewHeartMonitor.wmv
right click, save as or save link as or save target as.. and save it to your PC. Its around 9MB
Emily didn’t want to be on video just yet. We should have some photos of mom-to-be up soon.
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2:21pm
Emily is currently resting. She is dilated further – although I can’t recall if the nurse said 6 or 7cm. Think it was 6. I will have a little something for the website in the next 20 or 30 minutes.
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11:45am
So I wussed out. The doc came in to administer the epidural and I took that as my moment to run and hide. (I have a needle phobia…yeah I’m a wus).  Plus I wanted to get lunch because I knew that we still have four or five hours to go and I certainly wouldn’t want to get food once little Sean is here. Emily is quite content now with her numb lower half. We are watching the baby monitor on the console next to the bed and it spikes for a contraction…but she feels nothing. She ate a third of a red Ice Pop and is going to try to take a nap. I’ll probably catch up on some reading. Got the next Harlan Coben book to keep me entertained as well as some TV shows I didn’t get to see on the tube.
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10:30am
Emily is doing well still. Contractions are 1.5 – 2 minutes apart and pretty hefty. She’s bearing with them though and putting off the epidural. Water broke around 8 or 9 am (i think?) and that sped things up. She’s “relaxed” on an exercise ball for a while because the contractions seemed worse when she was laying down.
She’s pretty hungry right now and was relieved to find out she could eat 30 minutes after Sean joins us – as long as she keeps her juice down after the birth. I suggested that I could pick up some Jeff Ruby’s for her…but the nurse said we should stick to something easy like a sandwhich…shows you what I know 🙂
More later!
update: epidural is coming. we are now 5cm. 10:45am
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