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December 25, 2002
Happy Chrismoose
Happy Chrismoose everyone. Here's Cameron in his Xmas outfit from Aunty Lin and his Great Grandma. Cameron got all the gifts...and now he's going to have his first full bath!
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December 24, 2002
Happy Christmas from Cameron
Cameron had his first doctor's appointment yesterday. He weighs 8 pounds and 2 ounces, is 20 3/4 inches long, and his noggin is 14 1/4 inches in circumference. He's very healthy and no mother he does not have disproportionatly large feet.
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December 23, 2002
zoé jezabel apitz-green
An update from our friends Jon and Laurence who had a girl June. Zoé Jezabel Apitz-Green is now five and a half months old. They live in Paris. Hopefully we'll be seeing them more often next year.
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December 20, 2002
Cameron In Action
A couple of very short movies for the family back home. Note that you will need a movie player installed on your PC. You may already have the 'Windows Media Player'. If not IE will prompt you to download it, this also could take a long time. These movies are only a few seconds, so don't bother unless you are very keen.
Firstly we have Cameron wriggling about a bit. (729k, or ~20 seconds with a 56k modem.)
Secondly we have Cameron hiccuping along to a bit of mozart. (8565k, or ~4 minutes over a 56k modem.)
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December 15, 2002
Cameron's First Week
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December 08, 2002
Cameron
Just the facts:
Our baby boy, Cameron Thomas Merrells, was born this morning, Sunday 8th December, at 6:22 am in El Camino Hospital, Mountain View, California. He weighed 7 pounds 7 ounces and is 20 inches in length. He's a very healthy, happy and loud baby!
The gory details:
The birth was long, very long. We had two days of intermittent contractions that just wouldn't become convincingly frequent, long and hard. By Saturday night we were exhausted and thinking about serious medication to get some sleep. Our doula, a lovely lady who does professional labour support , suggested we try a bath. To our delight (and dismay) the contractions then came really fast and strong. Sam laboured hard at home for four hours, mostly standing, leaning against a table, me pushing her back as hard as I could. We then went into the hospital at 2:30 am to see how far we'd got. She was 5 cm dialated, which was great. Our labour nurse was really nice. She'd worked at El Camino for 40 years and our baby was to be her last delivery before retirement. She was very supportive of our desire to have a natural birth. We were both dispondant that we might have another five hours of dialation to go, but our doula persuaded us to keep going a bit longer. The next 45mins was quite surreal. Sam was sat on a plastic chair in the shower and I squatted on the other side of the curtain ready to push her lower back as each contraction came. I nearly lost it here. I couldn't stand to see her in so much pain. At the next check Sam was 9cm dialated and burst into tears with shock that she'd got so far so quickly. We started the pushing phase soon after and Sam learnt fast, but the contractions died down with being in bed. Sam pushed hard for an hour. I almost lost it. Our doula came to the rescue again and we did a couple of pushes squatting on the bed. Our regular doctor was away so the oncall doctor came to perform the delivery. We were so lucky as she totally accepted our desire for as little medical intervension as possible and patiently waited for nature to take its course. He appeared at 6:22 am. I cut the cord. He yelled and yelled and threw his arms and legs around. He was straight onto Sam's chest. It was the most amazing moment. I was so totally shocked. I'm not sure why, as we'd been anticipating this moment for five years. I had such a head rush that blood started pouring out of my right nostril. Sam is just the strongest woman. To breath through all that pain and to be totally exhuasted and still push the baby out is just the most amazing thing. I'm in awe.
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December 01, 2002
Rachel Meyrick
Here she is!
Rachel is in Holland at the moment, editing for Prada. But here are some photos of her with her new haircut, house and boyfriend. Click on the images to see the full-size version.
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