This morning, at 8:18 a.m., our son William Bair Miner made his appearance onto this grand stage called life. Let me just say first here as I'm sure that there are questions on the middle name. Bair is a family name on my side. It is my grandfather's middle name along with my great-grandmothers maiden name. As I'm finally sitting down to write this thing at 10:00 at night, please note that I've only had about one hour of sleep since Tuesday, so I apologize in advance if I start not making sense at some point during this post. William is our second son so you can say that if my goal was to produce boys, I'm batting 1000 right now. That's a much better batting average than any MLB hitter. Of course, our hopes were only for a happy, healthy baby and that's what we've been blessed with.
The story of how he entered this world is fairly straightforward and for the sake of not being too graphic I'll give you the condensed version. Having a hunch that this baby would follow in the footsteps of his older brother, we weren't too surprised by having to go to the E.R. today at 1:00 in the morning, almost 3 weeks prior to his official due date. Of course I'm thinking why are all of my kids refusing to be born in the evening, allowing me a great nights sleep prior to the delivery? Actually what I should have been thinking was allowing Jen a decent nights sleep prior to delivery as she's the one doing all the work, I'm only a mediocre coach at best. After a bad experience in the first delivery with a bad epidural, Jen decided to try and go au' natural on this one. I was a little worried as I've seen those movies where women are screaming at their husbands, threatening their lives while pulling the hair out of their heads in the midst of delivery and I didn't want to be in that guy. Fortunately, Jen is awesome and even when she's feeling her absolute worst; she is still a remarkable woman to be around. I'm very lucky to have found her.
After some rough contractions and a few moments of pushing, William graced us with his presence. It turns out that being three weeks early isn't the only thing he has in common with Nicholas. They both weighed exactly the same, 7 lbs., 14 oz. and their length was similar as well with William coming in at 21 inches long. Both Jen and William are doing great, tired but great.
I'd like to say thank you to the nurses in the labor department at Akron City Hospital. Our nurses, Chris and Linda were absolutely amazing professionals. I don't know what the hospital is paying them, but it's not nearly enough. I only wish that everyone was as dedicated, knowledgeable and enthusiastic about their job as these two ladies are. I can say without a doubt that with their help, it made the experience much easier on Jennifer and me.
brian
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