Baby Kyle Update
August 8, 2013
So here we go. The contractions started this afternoon
(Thursday) around 4:00 p.m. It began more as pressure rather than pain, so it
wasn’t very clear at first, but soon thereafter, it became regular enough to be
real solid. The intervals were a little varied, but usually about 30 minutes
apart, and duration was around a minute.
They were gentle and spaced out enough that it wasn’t a real
challenge. This allowed us to call our parents and other family members. I made
Janice some smaller meals (soup, chocolate pudding, toast, etc.) and we watched
some of her favorite shows. Disappointingly, there wasn’t a Rangers game on,
but oh well. Lots of cuddling and back rubbing and quiet excitement and
nervousness.
One of the most fun things, though, was when I got out one of
Janice’s guitars and played Kyle’s Song. It is a tune that I had actually
written in college and had never really found a home for. It actually served as
one of the songs for Janice’s radio show when it was first launched, but was just
background music. But then early on in the pregnancy, we were playing around
with music ideas and I just started playing this one tune, and the lyrics just
fell into place as if by design. Janice was playing around with some basic
melodies and then she was writing lyrics and it all came together. We’ve worked
on it some, but the basics are there from the first writing.
We had previously recorded a version of it and I will see if I can post it here at
some point.
The fun thing tonight, though, was when we were singing it,
Kyle got real active and the contractions got more intense, to the point where
we actually stopped. The contractions eased up a bit after that, but if they
don’t start getting more intense tomorrow morning, I’m thinking we break it
back out to get things moving forward.
That is all for tonight at this point.
No comments:
Post a Comment