Saturday, May 17, 2008

Baby Nathan is Born.


Cyworld was very difficult to keep up due to many of my friends not being a member of it. Hope this new site is easier to manage. Anyway, the mother had contractions off and on for the last week, but they were irregular and usually came on at night, lasting anywhere from 1-4 hours. On Thursday morning of 5/15, she woke me up because her contractions had been 4 minutes consistently. She had taken a shower and put on make up prior to waking me up. I got up, rubbed my eyes, put my clothes on, gathered the things, lead her into the car and drove to the hospital. I used my ID to get into the labor and delivery room straight away and got her settled. The nurses checked her and she was 7 cm dilated at the time of check in. She was 4 cm dilated the week prior, checked by her OB/GYN. Now the whole time, I was focusing all my energy to keep my mouth shut. The first two pregnancies were of me being anxious and yapping and commenting about everything. I get talkative and use humor when I'm nervous. Anyway, that annoyed her to no end while she was in pain. Hence, this time around, all my energy was focused on standing there holding her hand and keeping my mouth shut. I had recorded a sound of a vacuum cleaner, because that soothed her. And she started humming, "Amazing love how can it be, that you my king would die for me." and I hummed that with her while waiting for the contractions to come and go. They called the OB/GYN right away. She refused epidural. We had gotten to the hospital around 6AM...I having been woken up around 5:30AM. They put an IV in her....after the third try because her vein keeps blowing up. After the OB/GYN arrived and checked her, she told her it's going to happen very soon and she left to wait outside. Eun Young's water broke. Then Eun Young said, "I want to push." We pushed the nurse button. The OB/GYN came in. She was putting on her sterile robe when she said, "Hold on. I can see the head." She barely put the robe on when she said, "go ahead and push" One push and I saw the hair of the child. Second push and the head was out. That was 8:07AM. The baby cried healthily and the body and the placenta came out easily. I cut the umbilical cord. The baby cried for 1 minute then stopped. And I praised the Lord that God has given me another child with a temperament of Ellie. When Ellie popped out, she cried for a short time, then stopped and looked around. Aiden, on the other hand, cried loud and long, and still cries to this day. They asked me if I wanted to circucise the baby, and I said, "no" Paul said there is no point in circumcision and if you will argue about it then go the whole way. I would like my baby to keep his manhood. Aiden was circumcised though, just in case the Jews were right. The baby ate like crazy the first day, then slept the whole second day, and since then ate like crazy at night, poops all night, then sleeps all day. I thank God for my third and last child and for his mild temperament and extremely healthy body and health.

6 comments:

Unknown said...

I just LOVE this new page you set up here dear brother-in-law!
You're sooo amazing! Taking care of cute Nathan while still making time to spread the word and put up pictures of your new born son. Not to mention the wonderful pictures. That girl in the picture is sooo gorgeous. .... Oh wait.. what the? THATS ME!!!!!!! hahahahahaha

Unknown said...

congrats to the park family
note the most important line of Park's comments, "third and LAST child" haha! who knows. God has a great sense of humor. So the 4th one should be called Isaiah which laughter or maybe the oppposite, what is Hebrew word for cry? just kidding

great blog, beautiful kid

The Park Family said...

Thank you.
The baby is eating like crazy, sleeping like crazy...each for about 5-10 minutes at a time...
Very difficult to keep up with him...
I hope he slows down soon.
I'm getting sleep deprived...
And yes...third and final baby...
God will have mercy upon my soul... :)

The Park Family said...
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Unknown said...

Wow, when did this page become Park-Choi Extended Family Page? lol~ so this is why you're so tired..

soyun said...

oh my goodness! Eun Young! I didn't know you became a mother of THREE beautiful children. Congratulations!!!! Coming to visit any time soon? Miss all of you very much... And you still look like a college student to me.:) How can a woman who just gave a birth be so pretty?!?!
Not fair... :)
Anyways, Congrats again, and hope to see you soon.(Are you gonna come to my wedding?)