Scraps from the earlier days
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last update: March 28, 1999
Suzanna Kay Robinson was born after many long hours of amazing effort by her mom, Tina (TG to me), assisted by me and my sister-in-law, Melissa (who volunteered the effort). TG did the whole thing without painkillers, from the 2:30 am water-break in bed (naturally, after we'd stayed up late) to the 3:00 onset of contractions, to the 5:00 check-in at the hospital, to the 5:54pm actual birth. It was touch-and-go for a while in the first few hours after she was born (her APGAR Score at one minute was ZERO!!), but now, even her pediatrician says "if I didn't know this baby's history, I would never guess that there had been a problem."
Suzanna was in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) for the first two weeks of her life -- leaving mom and dad with the strange sensation of packing up from the hospital and going home without a baby! Sleeping full nights, the whole bit; kind of strange.
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