I Had A Baby Today
Posted: April 7th, 2004 | Author: ralphhogaboom | Filed under: life | Tags: birthday!, family, friends, itsanexperiment, kids, life, nelshogaboom, smalltownlife, sophiehogaboom | No Comments »It’s a boy!
Nels Hogaboom (no middle name as of yet)
born 8 lbs, 7 oz
21 inches long
home birth in the tub — water baby
The birth experience was really, really nice. I couldn’t imagine wanting to have a baby in a hospital again. Now that I’ve been all the way through the home birth, I can appreciate how — mundate — it is. It’s not some crazy, we-need-professionals-in-sterile-rooms Serious Operation. It’s a thing the woman’s body was meant to do, the body excels at doing. DLR said it best: might as well jump.