Sorry it's been a while. It's not that we've been busy, more that we've been getting into a routine. Adam is becoming more and more aware. He looks around and even moves his head to try to eat various toys.

Well back to Saturday. Once Katie woke up it was pretty close game time. The pushing went about an hour. The pain started to come back when the pushing started. The nurses didn't want Katie to push right away, since the baby wasn't in position yet. However, Katie was pretty motivated. The nurses told her not to push. However, Katie kept pushing the nurse button because she wanted to push. One nurse even called the nursing station asking for the doctor because she had a "pushy patient."

Finally, the nurse told her to push when ready. I could slowly watch Adam's head descend. The only part that scared me was Adam's head. I thought I was looking at the top of his head. It was actually the back of his head. As his head started coming out, more and more head came out. I was imagining the drone from the aliens moving coming out. Eventually Adam's was pretty much out. Katie's eyes were closed and the nurses told he to look. Once Adam was out, Katie exclaimed "That's my baby!" I got a kick out of her statement, since it was pretty obvious to all of us that Adam was her baby.

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Once we got to the hospital we waited around in the triage room. Basically, that's the room where the questionable people go. Questionable, not in the sense that we were going to take all the toilet paper in the bathroom and leave, but questionable in that Katie was actually going into real labor.

Although Katie's contractions were about 5 minutes apart, they weren't consistent enough. Plus Katie wasn't effaced or dilated much at all. When Katie first had contractions, she wasn't sure what they were. By about 10AM they were 9/10 on the pain scale. I was really worried about what was to come, since these 5 minute contractions were so terrible.

Eventually, the doctors began trying to make a decision. Katie and I discussed the issue and determined that we did not want to go back home and go through this again. We told the doctor that we wanted to move things along. After some consideration, we were finally moved to the labor room. They broke her water and the contractions almost instantly moved to about 3 minutes apart. That is when the pain really kicked in. That is when we asked for the epidermal. They didn't let me watch for the epidermal part. I had to sit on the couch. They cited some guy that passed out and his his head.

Once Katie got the epidermal, she fell asleep. After an hour she was fully dilated and effaced. Adam still had not dropped.

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So Friday morning there was some fun. Katie woke up around midnight (Friday) with some contractions. They weren't 5 minutes or less apart so eventually she went back to bed. She woke me up around 1AM or so, but I slowly fell back asleep. It was exciting that she was actually having contractions, but we both knew that it was not labor.

At this point the doctors had told us that Katie was completely effaced, and then a week later told us the she wasn't effaced at all. I guess the previous nurse practitioner didn't look enough? Yea, we're changing doctors.

Anyway, I'm sure you are all waiting for me to get to Saturday. Well Saturday around midnight, Katie was awaken by some contractions. She woke me up around 2 AM as the contractions started to approach the 5 minutes apart mark. I wasn't prepared to mark down the contractions. First I tried using my blackberry, but it was cumbersome to switch from the home screen to the memo pad to write down the time. Plus I didn't have a seconds indicator. Finally I just turned on my computer. The only thing I could think of with a seconds indicator was my trusty talking clock.

If you don't know about my talking clocks: When I was 13 I wrote a talking clock in visual basic. For some reason I had a dream of writing a talking clock in C++. That dream came true when I was 24! They're available at my website

At about 3:30 AM we decided to head over to the hospital. Katie's contractions varied, but definitely averaged around 5 minutes apart. I took a shower, and Grandma (Karius) got her hair all ready. Once I determined that Adam would like to see his father for the first time in a "It's Miller Time" T-shirt, we loaded up the car and headed to the hospital. Not before I left a message on the front door to the Empire Carpet guys who were to show up between 8AM and 5PM "Wife in Labor Please Call."

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Adam is sleeping in today. He showed me how to put posts on his blog and wants me to write on as a guest writer. Kids these days!

Adam's due date was June 21. Katie and I eagerly awaited that day expecting something to happen. Yea we knew that Katie would probably go into labor within the week before and week after the due date and we saw the bell curve, but for some reason we still expected something to happen by the due date. After the due date was especially hard. Katie was getting big and tired of lugging this baby around. Katie was still working, but running out of work, since she didn't want to start new projects just to leave for three months. I myself was getting tired of lugging around my cell phone. I even had to bring it in to the racquetball court! It was difficult knowing at any moment Katie could go into labor and change our lives forever. Was it today? Was it tonight? It felt like I was getting married, except at any moment, somebody was going to run into the room and grab me for the ceremony!

After the due date pasted, the doctors gave us a light at the end of the tunnel. They set an inducement date for June 30. It was exciting to have a cutoff date. Katie decided to make the Thursday before that her last day of work. Friday the doctors wanted to take an ultrasound and a non-stress-test, so I took off work to join her. The non-stress test was pretty boring. The most exciting part was when Adam fell asleep and they used this taser looking device to wake him up. We could imagine him saying "Don't tase me bro!"

To be continued...