Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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- Woken at 4am, the poor girl's been having
contractions all night (since 11:30pm), left me sleeping,
cooked some flapjack, done the stitching. She needed the
Tens machine applying.
- Somewhat excited, read the instructions and
applied the pads - the poor, good creature. Instructed by the
hospital to wait for another couple of hours before coming in.
Had breakfast, did some hacking / comforting in succession.
- Pushed a new ooo 1.1 snapshot to
red-carpet; hopefully this one will get to the users; RC3 build
still running, chewed mail.
- Girl started getting rather upset, phoned Anne -
who promised to come soon. Anne came at 10:30am, examined Jules:
2-3cm and showed her how to breathe.
- Jules much less sad with blowing slowly out during
contractions, had lunch, watched a good portion of Prince of
Egypt in 5 minute bursts.
- J. eventually had a bath, sad again; Anne arrived
back ~1.30pm, extracted, dried, examined - 8cm - very good work.
Set off for the hospital at speed - for 'gas and air'; Don't
let me have the vent-noose.
- Dropped the girl, got her to the pool room, spent a while
queuing, waiting for people to leave the car-park so I could get
in. Rushed back expecting a baby; but not yet.
- Got the room organised, the tape on, contractions seemed
more widely spaced and more painful. Applied gas and air for J.
until was told to stop. A rather ghastly experience of impotent
spectatorship, supported J. while pushing (& singing).
- J. very brave, managed to squeeze Hannah out at 6:45pm
with only slight tearing, 4 1/2 hours after coming in. Cut the
placenta ( when it stopped pulsing ), Hannah very quiet and good;
had her weighed and vitamin K'd. 8lb, 1 1/2oz,
Hannah Julia Grace Meeks.
- Out to phone everyone; lots of happiness. Back to see
Julia, and get her stitched up - very sensitive about people
touching her.
- Relaxed in the ward, and waited for a bed to come free
until 10:15pm; drove home before one could, sleep - with nightmares
of child-birth.
My content in this blog and associated images / data under
images/ and data/ directories are (usually)
created by me and (unless obviously labelled otherwise) are licensed under
the public domain, and/or if that doesn't float your boat a CC0
license. I encourage linking back (of course) to help people decide for
themselves, in context, in the battle for ideas, and I love fixes /
improvements / corrections by private mail.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Collabora, SUSE,
Novell, The Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International),
or anyone else.
It's also important to realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
