Benjamin Saharat Weinraub
January 18, 2007, 8:34 AM GMT+7
6 lbs 14 oz (= 3.120 kg)
19.7 in (= 50 cm)
Woo hoo!
Labor and delivery were very quick this time, so quick that I almost missed the main event.
| 6:30 AM | : | Annie, Becca, Gop (Annie's brother), and I set out to the hospital for a scheduled induction of labor. |
| 7:00 AM | : | Arrive at the hospital. |
| 7:45 AM | : | We all move into the pre-delivery room. |
| 7:30 AM | : | Annie starts pitocin/oxytocin drip (to induce labor) in the pre-delivery room. Becca, Gop, and I are primarily in our in-patient room, but I am checking in every ten minutes or so. |
| 8:00 AM | : | Becca and I go to check on Annie (it's tough to leave Becca with Gop as she has been really attached to me lately) and find that she has been moved to the delivery room. Apparently her water broke - actually, Annie reports that she pushed pretty hard and broke it herself - so they moved quickly to get her ready for delivery. So, I quickly return to the in-patient room, get Gop to distract Becca sufficiently so that I can sneak out, and run back to the delivery room. |
| 8:34 AM | : | Hello, Benjamin! Mommy and baby are all fine. |
Pics to post as soon as practical.
By the way, for those of you asking "Saharat? What the heck is that?"... Annie picked it out. Saharat is Thai for America. I'm fine with that. ;-)
Update 2006-01-26: First batch of pics now posted.
At Michael's urging, I finally got around to assembling some video of Becca. The final product suffers from a shortage of both video footage and production skill, but I view it as probably the first of many such productions. With any luck, they will improve, at least marginally.
Little Bit Of Becca, Episode 1
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(approx 5 minutes, 20MB)
Today I licked my finger and wiped some dirt off Becca's face.
The transformation into my parents is now complete.
Update 2006-10-10: Several days ago, I told her to be careful running with a pen in her hand, noting that she could easily poke an eye out. Hopelessly lost in parenthood.
Just a quick update on the coup here in Thailand.
First and foremost, we are all ok.
Actually, for us down here in Phuket, it's a non-event, at least in the short-term. All the activity is up in Bangkok and while it might make for interesting - or perhaps, not so interesting - speculation about what is to come, the impact on us down here, if any, is indirect and spread out over a longer term.
Political instability is almost always undesirable. The political statemate of the last few months may have gradually weighed on the economy overall, but it probably did not have a major impact on tourist arrivals or real-estate investments by foreigners, the two areas that most affect Phuket. But while parliamentary inertia and the prospect of institutional political gridlock are not likely to dissuade someone from taking their vacation here, it is noteworthy that the words "military coup", let alone the presumably more desirable variation "bloodless coup", are hardly ever used in promotional packages for tropical resort holidays. So it remains to be seen what will happen.
Anyway, just wanted to update friends and family that we are all ok.
A recent NY Times editorial Veto? Who Needs a Veto? describes how President Bush gets around sticky elements of law with which he simply doesn't agree:
One of the abiding curiosities of the Bush administration is that after more than five years in office, the president has yet to issue a veto. No one since Thomas Jefferson has stayed in the White House this long without rejecting a single act of Congress. Some people attribute this to the Republicans' control of the House and the Senate, and others to Mr. Bush's reluctance to expend political capital on anything but tax cuts for the wealthy and the war in Iraq. Now, thanks to a recent article in The Boston Globe, we have a better answer.
President Bush doesn't bother with vetoes; he simply declares his intention not to enforce anything he dislikes.
Our checks and balances hard at work, eh?
W3Schools offers a great opportunity to download the entire internet.
Very cute...
This celebratory image from one of my childhood friends Dan Sherman was too cute to leave unposted.
TGIF indeed!
A recent NYT item by Edward Tenner included this bit:
Many students seem to lack the skills to structure their searches so they can find useful information quickly. In 2002, graduate students at Tel Aviv University were asked to find on the Web, with no time limit, a picture of the Mona Lisa; the complete text of either "Robinson Crusoe" or "David Copperfield"; and a recipe for apple pie accompanied by a photograph. Only 15 percent succeeded at all three assignments.
Graduate students? Only 15%?
Be afraid, be very afraid, for the future...