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Well hello, born baby!

We’re this close to a name, so stay tuned. Meet Emmett Charles Palmberg.

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We’re in the hospital right now. You decided you wanted to start coming about 8:20 this evening, right after your big sister went to bed. Your mom had a couple pieces of veggie pizza (hold onions) from Pagliai’s, and the next thing you know, it’s contraction city.
We’re at the hospital as I type [...]

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Our due date came and went with no baby. I think we were both expecting this scenario, but it does ratchet up the anxiety a bit. At our last appt., Leah’s doctor offered to have Leah come by the hospital today to “get checked,” and I think Leah might avail herself of that [...]

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And it’s been quiet, so far. Contractions, sure, but nothing “emergent,” as they say in the baby biz. So, we wait. Surely this child won’t break Ava’s record for tardiness, presently set at six days? I hope not. The good news in all this is that Leah doesn’t have to [...]

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Hello, unborn baby. You get to hear this noise all the time, I guess, but it’s a real treat for your mom and me to hear it:

Oh, and in case you’re wondering, the doc says this is 145 beats per minute. That means you’re a girl. Congratulations, Demi Jolie Palmberg. We’ll [...]

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…with a bang, it turns out. Unborn baby, that big jolt you felt this morning was your mother falling on her butt in our bedroom while she was getting dressed. As usual, she was tottering around on her high heels in front the the mirror. When she went to do her little [...]

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Hey, unborn baby.
According to your mom’s doctor this morning, your window on the world has just started to open a little bit. This is pretty exciting news, for a couple reasons. One, it means we’re nearing the end of this pregnancy. This means you’re almost here. It also means it’s the [...]

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Hi, unborn baby. I wanted to show you a picture of what your mom looks like right now:

It’s kinda funny, huh? It looks like a basketball under there! Unfortunately for your mom, that belly is a lot heavier than a basketball. You haven’t been moving around as much lately, but it’s [...]

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You’ve been an idea . . . a dream . . . a secret desire for so long that I almost don’t know what to make of you now. Your tiny fingers brush my insides; your limbs ripple my skin. And still I can’t believe you’re real. You came from one of the eggs that [...]

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We’ve got it, unborn baby! Though I will stipulate that your mother is not so thrilled lately as the rest of us. We got a new video camera last week that we plan to use to capture all sorts of totally unnecessary footage of your early weeks and months of development; I used [...]

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