Man, is that right!? It has been just over a week now?! I don't know where to start....I mean, I guess I do, but it might end up being a long ass post.
Well, I guess it all started on early Saturday morning when Ruby started having contractions. They seemed to be the first ones that she had during the entire pregnancy. It must have been about 6 in the morning, and of course, I was dead asleep. She proceeded to keep track of them and called the doctor's office once they got a consistant schedule. Turned out that they were "false alarms". They actually went away when we both ate breakfast (I picked up from Kelly's - Egg and Cheese Biscuit, ummm, mmmm..good!) so the rest of the day, they seemed to hold off. Then 6 o'clock rolled around...things started to get very interesting....
When the contractions started up again, there was some pretty good pain associated with them...these had to be the real thing, they just had to be, you know?! Determining that we had to get something in our stomachs again, we decided to hit up Mai's for some good eatin' (and after dropping off my Mom downtown anyhow), it seems strange knowing now that we are actually out and about while she was having real contractions. I suppose that they held off during the time that we ate, but I can't really remember Ruby complaining about them while at dinner. Although, once we got home, the pain came back. I knew early on, the this could potentially be a very long night. Hours went by and the contractions continued at a steady pace. Ruby decide to give the doctor a call again. The anxiousness and a little bit of nervousness began to set in. I guess around 11:30 or so...we get the word to go ahead and get to the hospital. Everything suddenly got all sureal. I mean, looking back at it...it did almost seem like a dreamlike state. It's weird. I can remember it so clearly though, but not so much so...does that make any sense?! We got to the hospital around 1 in the morning, and it is there that you realize that it is for real, and it is finally time.
It ended up being one long day, but at 07:41 a.m. Raymond Nicholas Gamboa Jr. was with us. I don't think that it really hit me right away, but I am glad that he has joined us, and healthy as can be! It's hard for me to type up everything that happened, and how I felt, so I will probably be adding more to this in other entry's. I realize that they might not be in sequential order, but that is the only way that I can do this at this point. MORE SOON, I promise...
Oh yeah...he came out to be 7 Ibs and 12 ounces...not quite as big as the hospital estimated...
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