juniorflav.com: Game On!

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Game On!

We were admitted into CPMC at 5PM this past Sunday, May 13, to begin the labor induction process. It had been a whole week since the official due date and our lil' guy still wasn't here yet, so we decided that it was time to give him a nudge. 33 hours, 4 nurses, 3 doctors, 2 tabs of Miso, a continuous drip of Pitocin, many strolls up and down the hallway, 5 episodes of Grey's Anatomy (season 1), 1 hour-long hot shower, countless intense contractions, 1 Epidural and 50 minutes of pushing later, and Damiano Fraser finally decided that he was ready to come out.

Not much sleep has been had since Sunday morning, and our close friend adrenaline is pretty much done with us at this point. Mom and D are currently fast asleep, and I'm trying to keep from nodding off while I put this together. We're extremely grateful that the labor and birth went without complication, and are amazingly stoked that we've brought a beautiful, healthy baby boy into the world.

A huge thanks, and big hug, to all the friends and family that have been a part of this process, both large and small, over the past 9 months. Your support means the world to us.

OK, before everything completely blurs out, let me sign off with a link to some photos of the hospital stay as well as his first set of vital stats:

Damiano Akira Fraser
Birth Date: Tuesday, 05.15.2007
Birth Time: 01:54 AM
Birth Weight: 8 lbs, 4 oz
Birth Length: 20 1/2 inches