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March 24, 2008

It's a Girl!

Robbi arrived at the hospital around 3:45 this afternoon. After about three hours of not much fun, the big moment came. There was some pushing and much excitement in the delivery room. A few minutes later, at 6:59pm, Alden Elisabeth Swanson came into this world, yowling and wet and very much in need of a bath.

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I cut the umbilical cord, which was not quite as distressing as I had expected.

She weighed in at 6 pounds, 14 ounces.

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I liked her from the very beginning.

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So did Robbi, apparently, in spite of the yowling.

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Alden has curly dark hair and a vaguely Asian appearance, which seems wholly appropriate given that she is vaguely Asian.

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Grandma Seiko and Grandpa Bob were the first to visit. I get the sense that they like Alden, too.

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The nurses gave her a good scrub.

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We like her even better now that she's clean.

At one point today, there were eight people in this delivery room. Now it's just Robbi, Alden, and me, our first night as a family.

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We're tired, of course, especially Robbi. She and Alden are snoozing together as I write this. I'll be taking my place on the pull-out daddy futon in mere moments, but for now I'm having a very nice time just taking in this tiny person I've been waiting so long to meet.

Posted by bogenamp at March 24, 2008 10:48 PM