Happy Jack Day

Jordan, Jack and Kait

Jack Elliot

February 5, 2009 3:40 PM

7 lb, 4 oz

The details

(as posted to ZPDK Rav group)

Mr Jack decided to try to flip himself in the right direction during the night. He was unsucessful but it put her into labor. Of course, Kait, who spent the entire pregnancy over-reacting to everything, decided it was probably nothing and didn’t want to wake me or let Jordan take her to the hospital. She was determined not to miss the damn appt. this morning.

She finally called me about 9:45 to make sure I was going to pick her up at 10:30 to take her to the doc and, oh, by the way, I didn’t sleep much last night because of these cramps. Cramps? I ask. Um…are you, by chance, timing these “cramps?” She said they were nothing. I went over early to get her and she had 3-4 “cramps” during the 15 mins to the clinic. I made her stop eating the yogurt she grabbed for breakfast. Couldn’t decide whether I should take her straight to the hospital but the clinic was on the way so I pulled up out front to go in and ask them. They put her on a monitor for a few minutes–yep, she’s in labor…5-6 mins apart–then sent us over to the hospital.

A few hours, contractions (pretty bad toward the end…seriously, why did they have to wait until they got her to the OR to give her the damn spinal??) and waiting for an OR to open up later, we had baby. He’s absolutely gorgeous. Kait’s tired but fine. Daddy didn’t pass out. All is well.