Author: Glen

Just a quick update–we got Dana home today in the midafter­noon.

Thanks for the TON of emails–for once I had more legit­i­mate mes­sages than spam! It feels good to get 90 or so con­grat­u­la­to­ry mis­sives.

Now that Dana’s home we’ll be sure to dress her up in some cute out­fits and post pic­tures online. I’ll try and do a short lit­tle web­cam movie, too.

For the baby-uni­ti­at­ed (i.e., all the col­le­gians I know), I’ll be very tardy in respond­ing to emails, phone calls, and smoke sig­nals. I’ll post short lit­tle updates here as oft as I can, but expect them to be few and far between. If they’re more fre­quent, con­sid­er that lagniappe.

Our first child, Dana Marie Davis, arrived March 25, 2004 at 4:03pm PST. She was 6 lbs 7 oz, and 18″ long. Ten fin­gers, ten toes, the whole bit.

Deliv­ery was actu­al­ly very easy for Paula. From the time she start­ed push­ing until the time of deliv­ery took less than an hour. To top it off, Paula felt rel­a­tive­ly lit­tle pain through­out. We’re still count­ing our bless­ings and thank­ing every­one who prayed in that direc­tion!

See pho­tos of Dana in our gallery.

That’s the essen­tial outline–if you want the blow-by-blow, read more.

I actu­al­ly wrote most of the fol­low­ing at the hos­pi­tal (yes, I brought my lap­top with me–it amused the nurs­es, I think), so please for­give the verb tens­es.
Con­tin­ue read­ing “D‑Day (Deliv­ery Day)”

In case you’re curi­ous, we have preg­nan­cy pho­tos from begin­ning to end.

Keep­ing our fin­gers crossed for tomor­row! In just about two hours Paula will call the hos­pi­tal to con­firm that she’s to head in, and then they’ll being work­ing their med­ical arts upon her.

Paula goes in to the hos­pi­tal tonight, and baby should appear some­time tomor­row after­noon (around 5pm is what the doc­tor esti­mat­ed).

Woohoo!

By the way, a few days ago I men­tioned that an alum­na from our Chi Alpha group at Stan­ford is a final­ist in the Miss Sin­ga­pore Uni­verse com­pe­ti­tion. Nathaniel Rice (one of our cur­rent stu­dents) found a blog that men­tions Ade­line’s involve­ment twice (on March 12 in a spir­i­tu­al sort of con­text and once on March 21 in a fun friend kind of con­text).

an excerpt from the Fri­day March 12 entry: One of the girls, Ade­line, left the deep­est impres­sion in my heart… [skipped some stuff] i respect her and look up to her.. she got this spark in her eyes when she was shar­ing her expe­ri­ence.. as if she was liv­ing life with such pas­sions~! I told her i was feel­ing pret­ty ner­vous, and she said..“remember i said beau­ty is a qui­et and gen­tle spir­it?” I said “yeah” as her group’s top­ic was about what beau­ty means to them(everyone had to intro them­selves with name and age, and a few words about their top­ic in front of the judges). Then she smiled and said to me, “You have that beau­ty i was talk­ing about — a qui­et and gen­tle spir­it.”. I was pret­ty touched, i smiled and said Thank you and hugged her, and i was close to tears.. it’s just amaz­ing! She was­n’t like most of the oth­er con­tes­tants who could be pret­ty self­ish at times, or hyp­o­crit­i­cal, or bitchy. She is so sin­cere.. and true.. and so pos­i­tive.. and she is just a few years old­er than me and already liv­ing life the way she wants! She just touched my heart in a way.. =)

I’d like for Chi Alpha to take cred­it for Ade­line, but she was already pret­ty mature before we even met her…

Paula and I went to see the doc­tor today, and we’re going to have labor induced this Thurs­day.

Pret­ty strange to think about, that we can sched­ule that. There is the chance that she’ll come ear­ly, but the doc­tor did­n’t seem to expect it.

Expect some good news and a pho­to soon!

Let’s just hope the poem is wrong…

Mon­day’s Child is fair of face
Tues­day’s Child is full of grace
Wednes­day’s Child is full of woe
Thurs­day’s Child has far to go
Fri­day’s Child is lov­ing and giv­ing
Sat­ur­day’s Child works hard for a liv­ing
But the child that is born on the Sab­bath day
Is bon­ny and blithe and good and gay.

Then again, I’m not sure what that means. Thurs­day’s Child has far to go in order to reach what des­ti­na­tion?

Could be worse, I suppose–we could have induced on Wednes­day.

On a com­plete­ly unre­lat­ed note, I was very dis­ap­point­ed ear­li­er today. John Ort­berg is the teach­ing pas­tor at Men­lo Park Pres­by­ter­ian Church, which is about two blocks from my apart­ment. He’s also con­sid­ered one of the best preach­ers in Amer­i­ca.

Well, I’m always try­ing become a bet­ter preach­er, so I emailed him and asked to inter­view him about the ser­mon prepa­ra­tion and deliv­ery process (which I was plan­ning to encode in MP3 for­mat and upload to a web­site, prob­a­bly Reach The U).

After a few days he emailed me back and declined, cit­ing a busy teach­ing sched­ule. I was pret­ty bummed. I sup­pose I half expect­ed it–for all he knows I’m some whacko–but it’s still dis­ap­point­ing. I con­sid­er him a pro­fes­sion­al role mod­el, and so it would have been nice to meet him and fig­ure out how he does what he does.

Maybe it will work out some­day. I used to have a lot of suc­cess at meet­ing peo­ple I esteemed (or was just curi­ous about), but my last few attempts have bombed (Doug Fields, Dan Bet­zer, Dan Kim­ball, and now John Ort­berg).