Our Family Journal

Danilo Roeper Azcarate born November 3, 2006 at 6:50 AM. At birth he weighed 7lbs and 6.5ozs and was 20.25 inches long.

His birth was pretty smooth. Maria and I watched ER on Thursday Night - she was complaining a bit about being uncomfortable but she put on her IPOD to listen to her hypnobirthing affirmations and went to sleep. She woke me up at about 2:00 AM - and let me know that she thought she was in labor. (hmmm, I knew i should have packed that bag earlier!).

Together we timed surges (contractions) and realized they were about 5 minutes apart and pretty regular. We called our Dr. who thought we should go to the hospital.

By the time we got to the Hospital it was about 4:00 AM (we kind of took our time, packing a bag, gathering some things, making some calls etc.). Maria was really feeling uncomfortable at this point. While she was waiting to be examined she was crawling around the waiting room trying to find a more comfortable position to be in.

She was finally examined at about 4:50 AM - the nurse examining her was surprised (as were we) that she was already about 8-9 CM dialated. They efficiently moved us to a labor and delivery room and after two hours of wonderful birthing work - Danilo was born!