Jonathan, Nicole, Benjamin and Abigail Wise

Dr. Maddock wants you all to know that Nic’s fully dialated, 100 percent effaced, +3 station. She’ll likeky have to start pushing within an hour or so. We chilled for a little while, watched some Lost (thanks Bates) and got some random footage on tape. Nic’s starting to feel the contractions again, despite the epidural, [...]

Posted on December 27th, 2006 by Jonathan Wise
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Gah, you don’t know how hard it is to tap out these updates on this tiny keyboard! But thank you everyone for your texts and phone calls and comments (Joey - tell your mom, thanks for the call)! Nic (and I) are doing much, much better now that we’ve had the epidural! The [...]

Posted on December 27th, 2006 by Jonathan Wise
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So we’re on drugs now to create contractions. They’re trying to establish a normal pattern, but for the past several hours they’ve had a hard time with that. Sometimes we’ll get really hard ones at regular intervals; frequently they’re will be a bunch of smaller ones in between. They won’t tell us if the dialation [...]

Posted on December 27th, 2006 by Jonathan Wise
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Ok so the picture on the left side is of me at around 8 weeks or approximately 2 months pregnant on our trip to Niagara Falls, ON on a very very hot day. The picture on the right side is of me at around 37 weeks or approximately 9 months pregnant when we got back [...]

Posted on December 27th, 2006 by Nicole Wise
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My 32 hours of Christmas holiday being over, I’m back at work this afternoon… and I have to admit, there’s something kind of peaceful about it. Maybe it’s the calm of being back on a set schedule again, or the rhythmic lull of routine. Maybe it’s the fact that all of the crazy Christmas preparation [...]

Posted on December 26th, 2006 by Jonathan Wise
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