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Postby King Colby » Tue May 04, 2021 12:01 pm

12 pounds?!? How big is he now?

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Postby Kane » Tue May 04, 2021 12:05 pm

Absolute unit.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Tue May 04, 2021 12:07 pm

For our first, when the real labor came, it came FAST and at 2 in the morning. For some reason, the attended OB was not right on the floor. The L&D nurse came running in, and immediately told me to jump to action.

First, she calmly but told me to get in the bathroom and pull the cord quickly. Then, she had me hold one of my wife's legs back to help with the pushing because of how quickly everything was happening. I guess it was adrenaline, because she suddenly yelled "Not so far, you are going to break her pelvis!" :lol: :lol:

The doctor made it in, and our daughter was already crowning. As it turns out, my daughter came out superman style (fist first) so my wife required 54 stitches. Our son's delivery was much smoother.

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Tue May 04, 2021 1:41 pm

:lol: He's 5'11", a couple of inches taller than I am. And still growing.

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Postby mac5155 » Tue May 04, 2021 1:43 pm

Hold up 12 lbs at birth? Do they even let them get that big now? I feel like our friend was induced because the baby was "out of room" at like 6 lbs.

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Tue May 04, 2021 1:47 pm

He was two weeks past his due date, fwiw, when she started to go into labor. But yeah, they induce earlier than that now.

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Postby Kane » Tue May 04, 2021 2:37 pm

6lbs seems too low, unless said friend is a really tiny person. Our little guy was almost 7lbs and probably would have gotten well into 8lbs if my wife didn't get pre-eclampsia.

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Postby skullman80 » Tue May 04, 2021 2:43 pm

I was 2 months premature when I was born. I was 2lbs 2oz. There is a picture of my dad holding me and I fit in the palm of his hand basically.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Tue May 04, 2021 5:26 pm

I was 2 months premature when I was born. I was 2lbs 2oz. There is a picture of my dad holding me and I fit in the palm of his hand basically.
Wait, what? Just so your birthday would come two months earlier? Come on man. :)

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Postby skullman80 » Tue May 04, 2021 5:52 pm

I was 2 months premature when I was born. I was 2lbs 2oz. There is a picture of my dad holding me and I fit in the palm of his hand basically.
Wait, what? Just so your birthday would come two months earlier? Come on man. :)
:lol: ...was supposed to be a 4th of July baby.

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Postby shmenguin » Tue May 04, 2021 5:58 pm

I was 2 months premature when I was born. I was 2lbs 2oz. There is a picture of my dad holding me and I fit in the palm of his hand basically.
your body mass has had an outrageous journey.

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Postby skullman80 » Tue May 04, 2021 6:00 pm

I was 2 months premature when I was born. I was 2lbs 2oz. There is a picture of my dad holding me and I fit in the palm of his hand basically.
your body mass has had an outrageous journey.
Heh. Yeah from one extreme to another...and now pretty much in the middle.

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Postby mac5155 » Tue May 04, 2021 7:04 pm

6lbs seems too low, unless said friend is a really tiny person. Our little guy was almost 7lbs and probably would have gotten well into 8lbs if my wife didn't get pre-eclampsia.
Yeah, I mean it was my buddy giving me the info. Maybe she had something she didn't wanna disclose and used that as an excuse.

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Postby meow » Tue May 04, 2021 9:33 pm

7 lbs 7 oz is the average weight of a full term baby in the US of A

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Postby mac5155 » Tue May 04, 2021 9:34 pm

Lil mac was 9 lb 2 Oz.

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Postby meow » Tue May 04, 2021 9:39 pm

I don’t think lil is the correct nickname

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Postby Dickie Dunn » Tue May 04, 2021 11:32 pm

Mrs. S pushed for 2 and a half hours. not watching would have been difficult - just the logistics of it.

this was after a 23 hour labor, most of which was spent having peak contractions...without an epidural.

i've lost the high ground in any conversation about toughness, perseverance, sacrifice, parenting, all of it. she wins.
That sounds brutal. We were a little over 24 hours of labor, but most of it was pretty passive and my wife’s epidural went in (on the sixth try) before peak contractions started. 30 minutes of pushing while seeing the head ebb and flow with the tide felt like an eternity. I can’t imagine 2.5 hours.

Lil Diego Dunn weighed in at a whopping 6 pounds 11 ounces and three days past birth stabilized at an 11% drop in weight, which apparently is an egregious and unmanageable loss above the expected 10%. Pediatricians office has us feeding him 12 times a day plus my wife pumping to add a post-nursing supplement of a half an ounce per meal. She’s less than thrilled by the plan, which seems aggressive given that her milk just came in. Her mommy milk boobs are out on display about 23.5 hours a day and have been examined and fondled by about 1000 people since Friday.

Also, first night home earned our rescue doggo an anti-anxiety prescription. Was never malicious, but his curiosity combined with obvious anxious behavior was concerning. Now he’s curious while seeming stoned all day.

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Postby King Colby » Wed May 05, 2021 12:09 am

Mine were 7lb 11oz and 9lb 2oz

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Wed May 05, 2021 6:28 am

6lb 11oz 18"

5lb 14oz 19"

9lb 2oz 23"

9lb 5 oz 22.5"

I'll let you figure out which ones were the two boys.

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Postby meow » Wed May 05, 2021 7:19 am

7lb 5oz 19”

7lb 7oz 18.5”

Consistently, baby

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Postby NTP66 » Wed May 05, 2021 7:41 am

5lb 14.5oz 20"

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Postby NTP66 » Wed May 05, 2021 3:54 pm

Welp…
A 25-year-old Malian woman has given birth to nine babies - two more than doctors had detected during scans.
Halima Cisse gave birth to the nonuplets in Morocco. Mali's government flew her there for specialist care.
"I'm very happy," her husband told the BBC. "My wife and the babies [five girls and four boys] are doing well."

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Postby Beveridge » Wed May 05, 2021 5:52 pm

I'd start by giving the 2 extra away that were unknown about.

Then over the next year, give away 5 more.

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Postby NTP66 » Wed May 05, 2021 6:07 pm

:lol:

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Postby King Colby » Wed May 05, 2021 6:10 pm

Definitely would run a buy one get two sale. 3x.

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