Born at 11:16 AM this morning on July 3rd, 2005: Karston Keller! We're delighted to meet him! His statistics are 6 pounds 7.75 ounces, 20.5 inches long, and 12.5 inch head circumference.
He arrived "stunned" (quiet, and looking around with big eyes) with three (loose) loops of umbilical cord around his neck. He had a fetal heart rate monitor on his head throughout most of labor and all of delivery, so we knew he was fine. Nevertheless, the attending physician hit "the panic button" that I never saw (despite looking), and the delivery room was filled with half a dozen pediatricians within 20 seconds of his birth. All of a sudden it was standing room only, and he wasn't on my chest for very long. He was fine, though; I knew it, and I wanted to hold him.
What I didn't expect ... Because he wasn't screaming, he wasn't red. I expected a red, cone-headed lizard of a baby, and instead he was the very picture of a small pale baby. I also expected him to have a very floppy neck and weak muscles. Instead, he holds and moves his own head frequently and for fairly long periods, and his legs are very strong when he straightens them.
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