This site will be updated periodically with updates about Barnaby. If you scroll way back the first post is about his birth, but that of course is not the beginning of the story.
Ana’s pregnancy was generally uncomfortable. Both because of sustained “morning sickness” that was really all day nausea for the first trimester and the backdrop of NYC in a global pandemic keeping us cooped up in our 450 square foot apartment, we decided to visit family in Boston. We got tested, waited for Ana’s mother to get her second shot of the vaccine, and loaded up the car to head north for a week long visit.
A few days in Ana’s water broke. When we headed to the ER that day we began a medical journey at Bringham and Women’s hospital and we have felt lucky that it happened here ever since.
There were over two weeks of inpatient monitored bed rest for Ana while the doctors tired to keep her pregnant as long as possible and started steroids for lung development in anticipation of a preterm delivery. A lot could be written about just that time.
The story of the delivery is something that we are still piecing together. I don’t write much about it here but it certainly left both of us changed and involved a lot of very scary and very difficult moments in the first hours of Barnaby’s life.
The remainder of this content is about what has happened since, and it goes in chronological order from the most recent, so if you want to start at the beginning you have to go to the last post.
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