Since Connor isn't able to make posts right now, I am going to be his guest writer.
Connor Pascal Chen McKenzie is now 3 days old. He was born on July 27, 2009 at 8 :50 am.
He was 5lbs, 14 oz and 18 1/2 " long. Connor was born earlier than expected (35 weeks instead of 40 weeks).
This is the story of his birth (and some events leading up to it).
On the weekend of July 25, Ann and I moved to north Austin from south Austin. We knew that we had to move soon because Ann was 35 weeks pregnant and the baby was coming at the end of August, so we hired a moving company and moved over the Saturday. The moving company, Advantage Moving showed up and were absolutely wonderful. I was amazed how hard they worked, and we hardly did anything that day besides get out of the way. I really wanted to make sure that Ann didn't do too much.
On July 26, that night, we were moved in and everything seemed to be moving along fine. A lot of stuff was in boxes, but no problems.
Then, at 4:30am on July 27, Ann woke me up, telling me that she was basically "leaking". She actually told me later that she almost didn't wake me up, but it is obviously better that she did. So, we called the on call number, and they told us to come in.
So, having just moved, and the fact that we were only 35 weeks along, I assumed we were just coming in for a checkup, and going back home. Ann was worried, but I think she was thinking the same things.
Connor was born earlier than expected (35 weeks instead of 40 weeks), so he had to be watched in the nursery for about 3 hours before Ann got to see him. Those 3 hours were hard for me, because I knew how much she wanted to see him. To make her feel better, I took a few pictures of him with my camera phone and took them to her to see.
Finally, he came into the room with us and he was just beautiful.
