Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Max
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 12:44 AM

Emily and I went in around midnight to beg for them to induce, and they did. Its gonna go slow, I'll bet tomorrow night some time, at best. I'm going to the back the hospital now, so I'll be out of touch for a while. I'll be in touch with Pene Azul, so he'll keep you informed. Later.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 12:46 AM

Who-Hoo!!! Don't forget to breathe.:-) It's gonna be a little Aquarian. Way to go...great sign!!

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Áine
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 12:52 AM

Dearest Max,

Don't forget to breath - kat's absolutely right -- and that means you, too! *BG*

Great good luck to all three of you!

All the best, Áine

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: JennyO
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 01:12 AM

I visited my son and daughter-in-law on the weekend. They just found out the baby they are expecting is going to be a boy, and it just happens that the favourite in the name stakes at the moment is Max.

BTW - My son's birthday was last Friday, 24th Jan. He's an Aquarius. They ARE a good sign!

Good luck guys! {{{{{{hugs}}}}}} from Australia

Jenny

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 01:19 AM

Obviously you didn't try my combo method on the other thread........A little sex, a little castor oil, one of those Preggo Pizzas, and Emily carrying you around all day..........Oh well, if you want to go with the medical method, I suppose it works but I think the natural methods we all suggested were best..............Even with the "Ani" thing, I hope it's a girl..........Actually though, Taj Lightning Beaverboy Spiegel will give me a lot more to work with.............

Spaw (hoping for only a healthy newborn)

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Big Mick
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 01:24 AM

Can't wait to welcome HER into the world............hehehehehehe.

Mick

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Mudlark
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 01:32 AM

Best wishes to all, and congrats from California...

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Amos
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 01:34 AM

Max,

We're rooting for all three of you -- looks like you started something excellent!!

A

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 01:36 AM

All the best--I sent unisex "onesies" so it doesn't make any difference to me which gender the baby is. I have one of each, and they're both wonderful! Breathe deeply!

SRS

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 02:09 AM

What Maggie meant was, take deep breathes.

Lots of strong positive healthy-baby type wishes coming from here in the middle of the Pacific to my old stomping grounds in Chester County. (Well, close to my old stomping grounds, anyway...)

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: BlueJay
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 03:19 AM

What Katsaid, Max- don't forget to breathe. Believe me, it's real easy to get so caught up in these things. When my wife was in labor with my first child, they decided to do a blood test. Sticking a needle into someone's arm and watching the tube fill with blood was entirely foreign to me at the time. What with the emotions and all, I actually fainted. I felt like an idiot. Here they were, supposed to be helping my wife in labor, and they had to instead devote their attention to me, collapsed on the floor.

It really is an intense experience. Enjoy! BlueJay

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Jeanie
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 03:40 AM

All good wishes being zooooooooooomed out across the Atlantic to you and Emily and looking forward to hearing news of the baby's safe arrival *very* soon !

With Love,
- jeanie

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Morticia
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 06:02 AM

got everything crossed here and hoping for good news soon....give Emily our love, after all she's the one doing all the hard work here.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 06:38 AM

best wishes from another Aquarius

sandra

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Tinker
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 06:41 AM

All the best heading your way today... You're in my thoughts throughout...

Love Ya

Tinker

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: My guru always said
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 07:07 AM

Positive thoughts to all :-)

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: gnu
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 07:20 AM

Ahhhhh.... a baaaaby! Congrats.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 08:11 AM

Oh excitement, I feel like a grandma AGAIN! Good luck all!

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: nutty
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 08:30 AM

It's 8 hours since Max posted ....... hope we hear soon.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Margaret V
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 08:33 AM

Best wishes, Max and Emily (and baby)! Margaret

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: MMario
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 08:50 AM

*bounce , bounce bounce* **happy dance**

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: jeffp
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 09:00 AM

Fingers and toes crossed here. Damn, it's tough to type this way!

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Ma-K
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 09:02 AM

O happy day. Now I don't have to check Mudcat in the middle of the night. Best wishes for all.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: harpgirl
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 09:06 AM

A song for the Spiegal's

Audrey and Marvin
by Larry Doyle
(or Max and Emily)


Max and Emily had a terrible fight
He hit her with a dishrag
She hit him with a right
I arrived in time to stop a flyin ash try
When I got my senses, here's all I could say...

I'll never get married, swear to god I never will
Guess I'll be a hermit, live on top a hill
Eat a lot of beans, grow hairy legs
And drink whiskey for a thrill
I'll never get married
Swear to god I never will

Now don't misunderstand me, or think I'm all alone
I've got a man who loves me and he calls me on the phone
He says he is true but the truth is very plain
When he's with his wife, he tells her the same.

Chorus again

Now bring me a stack of bibles, that reach up to the sky
With god as my witness, if I'm found to lie
May all my little kids that my man and I do bear
Have horns on their heads and feathers instead of hair!

I'll never get married swear to god I'll never will
Guess I'll be a hermit, live on top a hill
Eat a lot beans, grow hairy legs, and drink whiskey for a thrill
I'll never get married ( more than five or six times)
Swear to God I never will!

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: rock chick
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 09:13 AM

Don't forget the panting..............no not you Max you have done that bit!! :o))


Thinking of all three of you.

(((((((ALL THREE)))))) hand free hugssssssssss

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Tweed
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 09:16 AM

Dere Pene Azool,
Senz yore in contack wif Max be shore and tell him to lay off the garlik fore he goz an does them breathin' things wif Emily az wimmens' senze of smell iz summat hitened by the birfing experenz.

I myself ate the best part of a loaf o' high octane toastedgarlik bread shortly afore the fun began wif ar fursborn an I bleve thet Mz Tweed harbers sum resentment fer that liddle fopaw to this vary day. When the nex chile come along I wuz tole to jest sit in the corner an practis keeglz fer the better part of the evening.

Pleez tell em we ar thinking of them here at the Cafe.

Yerz,
Tweedzrzz

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Peter T.
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 09:38 AM

Another baby besides Mudcat? What a prolific parent. Good luck, yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Joe_F
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 09:54 AM

Are baby mudcats called mudkittens?

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Tinker
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 10:02 AM

Max, if Mick proves to be mistaken can we Mudcat women claim forfeit at Getaway.... can we Papa Max???

Tink

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 10:04 AM

Any news yet?

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 10:09 AM

Bessie Mamie Victoria Gertude Etta Spiegel isn't here yet but she's got hundreds of Mudcatters nervously pacing up and down a virtual waiting room!

Best wishes to all (not forgetting big half-sis who shouldn't feel left out)

RtS
(father of none for which the gene pool gives thanks)

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: MMario
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 10:12 AM

This has got to be nearly a first - a world wide community waiting in real time for a birth!

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 12:13 PM

Come on everyone one, two, three PUSH!!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Sorcha
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 12:20 PM

12 hrs now........Auntie Sorcha is pacing, breathing and pushing.....come out baby!!

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 12:22 PM

I hope Emily has been up walking around also. It helps speed things along, if they need speeding. Cross your fingers for no back labor!

SRS

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 12:44 PM

huff...huff...huff...whee..whee...whee..'spose they've got the tennis balls?

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Deda
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 12:51 PM

Yow, a long birth-watch. Hope all are well and safe. There's nothing in this world as perfect as a new baby. Post a wish thread for what you want. Maybe we could pool for baby prezzies??

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: nutty
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 12:55 PM

As one who has suffered back labour ...I'm with you SRS

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Mrrzy
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 01:04 PM

Induced... ooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwww, gnu! And UNCROSS everything and open all windows and untie scarves and... awaiting good news!

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 01:13 PM

Not wishing to put a damper on things but I was induced with natasha and it took 48 hours - hope this won't be anything like that!

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Sorcha
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 01:19 PM

And, we induced our Kate, and it took 5 hours.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 01:59 PM

Mine took it upon themselves to arrive, one took 3 hours of hard labor, the other 90 minutes. Good thing the back labor was with the shorter one, but oh, I was ready to tear the fixtures off the walls with that afternoon!

Is oxytocin still the drug of choice?

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Hollowfox
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 02:05 PM

Oooh, oooh, more good thoughts coming from the Midwest. (First babies always take longer.) Wishing good health to all three of you. the MomFox

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Amos
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 02:09 PM

Focus!! Max, ignore anything she says about how much she hates you just at the moment... it's part of the passage, so to speak!! Breath!!

Man I am as nervous as a new pup on a freeway!

A

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 02:09 PM

I think they all just come in their own good time. My first was early and labour was short, but intense on my lower back. Second came on the appointed day, with little labour, in 30 minutes. Third was way too early, long, hard lower back pain labour, then came before the docs were ready, I was still in the labour room. She has always done things her way! I later found out it was the way they came out which put so much intense pain on my lower back and it was related to the way I am built.:-)

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 02:29 PM

I'm tellin' ya'.......Shoulda' gone with the Pizza, Castor Oil, and Sex........This modern medicine stuff ain't gettin' the job done!

One thing.....I'd reconsider on the "Lightning".......A flash, this kid ain't!   Slow Hand maybe......Lightning, never.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Max
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 02:41 PM

We're half way there. I just ran home (we're only a few blocks from the hospital) to check on the cats (2 real, 1 virtual) and get some lunch.

Sure enough, it is back labor. They gave her an epidoral around noon, and are now dripping the petosin to kick up the contractions a notch. She's in a much better mood now. She's about 5cm dialated, and moving about 1cm per hour.

Funny thing, I was reading a 1972 issue of Sing Out magazine, the one right after Gary Davis died, when the medicine man came in. He asked why I was reading such an old magazine and if I'm famous or something. Couldn't for the life of him figure out why I would read such a silly old Folk magazine. So I told him that Yes, I am famous.

Thanks for all the kind words and stuff. I'll tell Emily she has the whole world rooting for her. I'll call Pene as soon as we have a new mudkitten to tell you all about it. Looks like sometime tonight. Later.

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Morticia
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 02:48 PM

Actually Max, if you ask Emily to hang on a while the baby will be born on my birthday....( ducks and runs for cover)

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 02:50 PM

Max, maybe something therapeutic would help her through that kind of labor. Take a few phone books from very large cities to let her rip with her bare hands during each contraction. ;-) You might ask if a really firm massage of her lower back would help--but be prepared to move out of the way quickly if it doesn't. Good luck!

Subject: RE: Mudcat Baby on the Way!!!!!!!!!!!
From: CarolC
Date: 28 Jan 03 - 02:53 PM

Sounds a lot like how things happened for me with my son. I'm rooting for you guys!!!