Members bieke Posted November 14, 2005 Members Share Posted November 14, 2005 that's beautiful ! congratulations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hookstrapped Posted November 14, 2005 Members Share Posted November 14, 2005 Beautiful baby! Congratulations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members zachary vex Posted November 14, 2005 Members Share Posted November 14, 2005 congrats! he looks like he's contemplating something deep... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wichitastraw Posted November 14, 2005 Members Share Posted November 14, 2005 congrats. your going to have some real fun! mine is two and a half now and just spoke her first cuss word (damnit)! oops. i said to my wife "where the $%^@ did she hear that from?" she just gave me the "are you kidding me?" look. kids are fun! congradulations again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members threm Posted November 14, 2005 Members Share Posted November 14, 2005 Looks good!Enjoy being a Father! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members paulandpaul Posted November 14, 2005 Members Share Posted November 14, 2005 awesome man! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members palthegiraffe Posted November 14, 2005 Members Share Posted November 14, 2005 Good job! I'm glad everything turned out well.This has added just a little to my own excitement about my own second and final child's arrival in March or so. I'm gearing up for the craziness again!As for those who have warned you to get ready for one or two months of sleeplessness, relax, don't listen to them!It's more like three or four months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UnChained! Posted November 14, 2005 Members Share Posted November 14, 2005 Originally posted by Filterbank Well, after a long frickin' labour, little Griffin Samuel Harris was born on Nov. 13th at 12:46 am. The family is doing fine, although exhausted. Thanks to all the words of wisdom and words of complete bull{censored} for all you dads and wiseasses. Congrats!! I can't begin to tell you how much you have to look forward to. Savor everything and as he gets a little older, try to remember back to when you were young, put yourself in his head - you'll get to experience it all over again. Kids Rule!Also, just an idea. Print the threads out concerning his birth. Save them for when he's a teenager - What a laugh and kinda cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hoerni Posted November 14, 2005 Members Share Posted November 14, 2005 Congrats! Enjoy them while they're young, they really do grow up fast. (mine's almost two, walking and talking) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members playdabluze Posted November 14, 2005 Members Share Posted November 14, 2005 Originally posted by Filterbank Well, after a long frickin' labour, little Griffin Samuel Harris was born on Nov. 13th at 12:46 am. The family is doing fine, although exhausted. Thanks to all the words of wisdom and words of complete bull{censored} for all you dads and wiseasses. Very cute kid! You and Mrs. Filterbank do nice work. Congrats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Filterbank Posted November 14, 2005 Author Members Share Posted November 14, 2005 Guys, thanks for all the nice words. For those of you who have kids and have experienced watching your child enter the world, you know that it seems like you're trivializing the whole thing by trying to describe it with words. This was the most profound experience of my life and I have no fear saying that I cried more than the baby did. Actually Griffin came out and pissed and puked all over mommy. I did not. He's been quiet as a mouse but this is always the case for the first 24 hours. I expect him to be a screecher for here on out. I have been taking advantage while mommy and baby are at the hospital to sleep as much as I can. I think they're staying another night so I may get another sleep in. Again, thanks all. Your kind words mean something to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members exploradorable Posted November 14, 2005 Members Share Posted November 14, 2005 He has a nice shaped head. That means he won't be stupid. Congratulations. hi non-ugly and non-stupid baby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Thelonius Posted November 14, 2005 Members Share Posted November 14, 2005 Congratulations!! 4.5 months to go here. If it's a boy they can be fx forum cousins. If it's a girl....then keep your damn kid away from mine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blaghaus Posted November 14, 2005 Members Share Posted November 14, 2005 Congrats to you and the Wife, Aron! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BillyGrahamCracker Posted November 14, 2005 Members Share Posted November 14, 2005 Great to hear that everything went well. Congratulations! Now the real fun begins. You'll probably be on here a lot late at night because you can't get back to sleep. But really, it's amazing. Congratulations again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UnChained! Posted November 14, 2005 Members Share Posted November 14, 2005 Originally posted by Filterbank He's been quiet as a mouse but this is always the case for the first 24 hours. I expect him to be a screecher for here on out. I have been taking advantage while mommy and baby are at the hospital to sleep as much as I can. I think they're staying another night so I may get another sleep in. Again, thanks all. Your kind words mean something to me. Oh Yeah - bank those sleep hours now. They'll be your last for a while! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kaddish Poznan Posted November 14, 2005 Members Share Posted November 14, 2005 Congrats to you and Mrs. Filter! Oh, and Griffin is a cool name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Filterbank Posted November 14, 2005 Author Members Share Posted November 14, 2005 Originally posted by Thelonius Congratulations!! 4.5 months to go here. If it's a boy they can be fx forum cousins. If it's a girl....then keep your damn kid away from mine! Deal, Bobby. My best friend and drummer had a baby girl last June. He said the same thing. He said, and he seemed sincere, that he'd beat the {censored} out of my boy if he boned his daughter. I told him his daughter was going to be a carpet cleaning dyke anyway.Get ready for this amazing experience. I hope you'll be there through the whole thing, if you can. Luckily we didn't have to go through a C-section. However, I stayed by my wife's head and not at the business end of things. I'd recommend the same. We were at possibly the best pre and post natal hospital in Canada and had fantastic nurses and doctors. Some of them were hot too, so all those internal exams on my wife were girl on girl action. But seriously, childbirth is a plain miracle and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Filterbank Posted November 14, 2005 Author Members Share Posted November 14, 2005 Thanks, I considered getting a Griffin tattoo. But I made a family monogram when me and the missus got hitched, so I'm going to make Finny his own monogram and possibly get that tattooed on me. Originally posted by Grozna_Pizda Congrats to you and Mrs. Filter! Oh, and Griffin is a cool name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members palthegiraffe Posted November 14, 2005 Members Share Posted November 14, 2005 Originally posted by Filterbank However, I stayed by my wife's head and not at the business end of things. I'd recommend the same. I knew where to stand when I saw the doctor put on the clear plastic face-shield and lay down the big plastic sheet on the floor! While I admit that it was amazing to watch the actual birth, I have to say that I wish I hadn't looked down there for some of the post-birth cleanup and detailing. I saw some very interesting sights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Thelonius Posted November 14, 2005 Members Share Posted November 14, 2005 Originally posted by Filterbank Deal, Bobby. My best friend and drummer had a baby girl last June. He said the same thing. He said, and he seemed sincere, that he'd beat the {censored} out of my boy if he boned his daughter. I told him his daughter was going to be a carpet cleaning dyke anyway. Get ready for this amazing experience. I hope you'll be there through the whole thing, if you can. Luckily we didn't have to go through a C-section. However, I stayed by my wife's head and not at the business end of things. I'd recommend the same. We were at possibly the best pre and post natal hospital in Canada and had fantastic nurses and doctors. Some of them were hot too, so all those internal exams on my wife were girl on girl action. But seriously, childbirth is a plain miracle and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Oh yeah, I'll definitely be there. Although I keep telling my wife I won't. Every time she talks about the delivery room I'm like "what? how the hell would I know, me and the fellas are gonna head down the creek and set some hooks that day" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BillyGrahamCracker Posted November 14, 2005 Members Share Posted November 14, 2005 Originally posted by palthegiraffe I knew where to stand when I saw the doctor put on the clear plastic face-shield and lay down the big plastic sheet on the floor! While I admit that it was amazing to watch the actual birth, I have to say that I wish I hadn't looked down there for some of the post-birth cleanup and detailing. I saw some very interesting sights. Well, E. had an emergency C-section (they'd induced her early, leading to a 30-hour labor that went nowhere). And she had me in there with her camera (she's got an epidural in her back, they're about to slice her open, and she's worried about the photography, telling me how to work her fancy camera...{censored}in' photographers!) and afterwards was disappointed that I hadn't gotten a good picture of her "guts" (her exact words) when she was all sliced open. I've seen lots of stuff and surgeries while working in a hospital, but it's a little different when it's your wife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Filterbank Posted November 14, 2005 Author Members Share Posted November 14, 2005 I started out saying that there was no way that I'd be in the room with her. I didn't think I could handle it. That quickly went away, especially by the time I hit the prenatal classes. In fact, my wife's grandfather was teeing off when her mom was born. He came by the hospital after his round, probably after a few pops at the 19th hole. I watched from my wife's perspective as I was making sure she had her chin to her chest and was curling her back. She did an amazing job pushing that baby out. There were some 'repairs' to do afterward. That seemed to be the worst part for my wife and I couldn't handle it either. I was holding Finny the whole time. But I didn't feel grossed out at any time. And the delivery room looked like a MASH unit when it was all done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Filterbank Posted November 14, 2005 Author Members Share Posted November 14, 2005 I bet. C had intended to do the entire thing sans drugs. I thought she was slightly crazy, but didn't want to try to convince her to do it otherwise. She went around 30 hours without much change in station or dilation. She was exhausted by that point and had managed to get through around 13 hours of super-intense contractions. She didn't think she could finish while being so wiped out. So she took the epidural and a saline-oxytocin IV. That allowed her (and me) to rest for a bit. It worked wonders as the baby dropped and she became fully dilated. The pushing was less than an hour. We had a doula (hands-off birthing assistant) who also served as the photographer. She was really great. For all you dads to be, I strongly recommend getting a doula. She'll be with you and the lady through the entire process with full knowledge of everything that's going on. She'll provide info and suggestions based on the medical diagnosis. And the big thing for me was that her presence allowed me to go get a coffee or some water, or just get out for a walk. Check it out at www.dona.org Originally posted by BillyGrahamCracker Well, E. had an emergency C-section (they'd induced her early, leading to a 30-hour labor that went nowhere). And she had me in there with her camera (she's got an epidural in her back, they're about to slice her open, and she's worried about the photography, telling me how to work her fancy camera...{censored}in' photographers!) and afterwards was disappointed that I hadn't gotten a good picture of her "guts" (her exact words) when she was all sliced open. I've seen lots of stuff and surgeries while working in a hospital, but it's a little different when it's your wife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blaghaus Posted November 14, 2005 Members Share Posted November 14, 2005 Guys, your wives are weaklings. Mother Blag had to carry me for an extra six weeks and I weighed Ten pounds during all that time. Blag = Causing trouble before birth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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