Sweet Delivery

I know -- I know -- the title is cheesy. This post might probably just end up like that anyway -- so if your lactose intolerant -- better leave now. (Please don't leave -- I just don't know how to start this post.)

So -- what's this something new thing? First off, do you remember this little dude? And I did say that deep within the bowels -- I am already feeling his presence and he is soon coming out?

At around 2:12am of September 18 2007 A.D -- our little package from heaven arrived. Through God's all naturalle process, the little dude was born weighing 6.8lbs and all healthy. Mommy labored for only about 5-6hrs. At first we were worried, because instead of pushing mommy's cervix to open up this exit passage -- the little dude is still playing around mommy's womb -- floating. The OBy made a rough guess that probably -- touch down will be around next week. It labor wouldn't start then -- mommy had to be induced. Apparently she was wrong because the stork made a rather early delivery that even made FedEx seemed like a snail.

Thus, at around 2:12am GMT +8 of September 18, 2007 -- I'm officially a faja.

I don't know if this goes out to all the would-be fathers out there -- but when my wife said that she's going to deliver for real, I just couldn't sleep. (I'm currently in Japan.) From when the early stages of labor started to the wee hours of dawn -- I was laying in the bed staring blankly at the ceiling. Eager to know if everything went right -- eager to hear the sound of the application which is the only device to connects you with the events currently happening. Knowing that there is nothing you can do because of the sheer distance in between -- it just makes you feel like crap.

I regretted this -- but in my case -- it was something that I had to do -- I had to be away for the sake of my new family. But, my advice I can give to future fathers -- don't miss your child's delivery (unless necessary) especially if it's the first one. It's not complete to just know that your child was safely delivered.