Les Jones

Home Life > Katie Day 6

Katie's using her arms and hands more and more. A couple of days ago she really started opening her eyes. When I walked her last night she seemed interested in the house.

Last night was a long one, and Melissa and I didn't get much sleep. Thankfully we had lots of help. My family came over and brought lunch, and Jay and Charla came over and cooked dinner.

Melissa and I have talked about how tough it would be to be a single mom giving birth with no help. It isn't easy with two parents. Having friends and family who can give an extra set of hands now and then is a real blessing.

Churchill or Ghandi?
Our friend Jay says all newborns look like either Churchill or Ghandi. He says Katie is a Churchill.

I want my Law and Order!
So when Melissa had to stay at the hospital last month, she was peeved that she couldn't get TNT and her daily Law and Order fix. When they were wheeling her out of the pediactric ward after the C-section they told her we'd be moved to a post-partum room. While still under anaesthesia she asked them if the room had TNT.

Puking in the delivery room
I think some guys are worried about how they'll do in the delivery room (or operating room, if there's a C-section). I mentioned the other day that seeing the epidural made me nauseous, but seeing the C-section was fine.

Melissa reminded me that when they showed the C-section in the parenting class I got nauseous. Goes to show, I guess, that you can have one reaction to seeing something on a video, and another reaction in real life.

It may also be that seeing the C-section video inured me to it. I remember a study of sleep deprivation that focused on medical staff. The test subjects slept in a monitored room hooked up to an EEG. When they entered the REM stage (which is when dreams occur) their sleep was interrupted so that they couldn't dream. The control subjects who were allowed to dream got used to seeing medical prodedures, but the test subjects who never dreamed did not.