Hasses aren't only avocados.

Pater: The birth of Avocado Junior

Posted by Pater , Thursday, September 24, 2009 7:24 PM

Welcome to the world, our beautiful Avocado Jnr. And as if your birth was not miraculous enough, it took place at Mount Sinai. No, not the one in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt...

So what happened? Well let's start at the beginning...

Mater and Pater first rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital on Tuesday, 22nd September, in the afternoon. You weren't ripe yet. We came back Tuesday night/Wednesday morning. You still weren't ripe. Finally, after a day of contractions and walking, you decided it was time. We left home at 6.45am on Wednesday 24th September and after a brief stay in triage, were admitted to the room you see below. No, not a hotel room, but close!





I'd like to say things sped up once we got to the labour room. I'd like to. But I can't. We got into the room at 8am. At 8pm we had a 4cm dilated cervix, Survivor Samoa on TV but no Avocado Jnr. Mater had a snooze until the nice doctor came in at 10pm and let us know that Mater was 8cm. Your head hadn't dropped fully but no one was really concerned. That changed at middnight when your heart rate dropped, your head still hadn't dropped fully and the doctors rushed in like an episode from ER. Your heart rate went back up and Mater was 10cm but we decided that your time for harvesting couldn't wait. With the help of a sterile room, some scrubs for Pater and a lot of doctors and nurses, you were delivered by C Section at 12.22 on Friday 25th September 2009. You had a bit of fluid on the lungs and were obviously upset at being evicted from the safety of Mater's womb so the nice doctors put you in the NICU for a day. But by the end of your first day in the world you were back in the loving arms of Mater and Pater. And that's where you're staying FOR EVER!