Without Further Ado...

Introducing Baby Bryc!

Baby Update #6

It's a boy! Sorry this blog post had to be postponed a bit to allow some people to receive special notifications (like, say, grandparents!). He was born at 11:36pm on October 13!

Baby Update #5

8cm. 9 during contractions.

Baby Update #4

So our water broke at 1:45 or so - just after we had worried about whether we should artificially break it to speed up labor. That went great and everyone had a second wind and much excitement occurred once one of the students noticed a lot of bulging. Unfortunately a subsequent cervical exam showed only 6cm of dilation. After a few more hours of laboring we were at 6.5. And then we were still unchanged at 4pm and the midwife called it. We had debated when we might give up so it was easy to have such a definitive verdict. We are now in the University of Washington medical center with most important of all, an epidural. It really is a remarkable difference especially after 42.75 hours of labor with no interventions at all. No baby yet but we are going to rest while things progress hopefully - still at 6cm at last check.

Baby Update #3

Into hour 39 of the marathon labor session. Someone call the guiness book of world records people.

Baby Update #2

We're definitely in active labor now.

Also, if you're reading these via Facebook, be aware you ought to just check blog.sarahandmichal.com directly :-)

Baby Update #1

We're officially in labor! Contractions started last night, and Sarah is 3cm dilated.

We're going to try and keep the blog updated as we go. Please please please do not call us.