it's official: today marks the day that judah will have spent more days in the outside world than he did gestating inside my uterus. from the estimated day of conception to his birthday was 260 days. from his birthday until yesterday was 260 days. naturally, we wanted to celebrate this momentous, if unusual, milestone.
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we decided to have a little "coming out" party for the bug to celebrate the fact that he has now spent more time as a human baby than he did as a fetus. to do this we decided to go back and recreate the moment he "crossed over" ("exploded through" may be a better term for it). note, this was a lot less creepy when we were just talking about it and before we actually did it. if you're squeamish about birth stuff, you may want to skip this post, even though there's nothing graphic, the analogy might be too much for you.




he's crowning! i can see the head!

i knew that doing unmedicated childbirth would be hard. but i also knew that once i had delivered his head that the truly horrifying and difficult part was over and all that was left was a painless and easy push to get his whole body delivered. this turned out to be VERY true. so true, that when i was done pushing his head out, i plopped back on the pillow, knowing the true feat was done. jesse gently reminded me, um, babe, you need to push out his body. i had completely forgotten since the pain was seriously gone at that point and i was so tired (30 hours without sleep). looking back we laugh because the image of judah just waiting there must have been quite a sight. i like to say, poor guy was just sitting there wearing me like a turtleneck. thus the picture above.
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now judah starts eating the cake, so the metaphor needs to stop here because it gets super weird and cannibalistic otherwise. let's just call this practice for his birthday cake.

mmmm amniotic whip (okay, now i'll stop)

judah loves cervical berries (ok, so i am having a hard time stopping)

and whipped cream that he refused to feed himself. maybe he was creeped out by his plastic proxy-bug

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it's freaking weird to me to think that judah has only been in our arms for as long as i was pregnant. it feels like pregnancy is just a dim glimmer, a blip on the radar compared to life with our little man. then again, pregnancy was mind-numbingly boring and felt like the purgatory of waiting excitedly for your most beloved relative to come up the escalator at the airport's arrivals terminal for 9 never-ending months whereas having judah has been such a blast that it has kind of flown by.
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if you're pregnant and read this post, i am sorry. like you needed reminding.
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and yes, we will be finishing off that cake for dessert tonight. it grossed even us out to eat it right afterwards.