Posts by Emery Wang
Tuesday afternoon
These little guys have to eat every 3 hours, and it seems every hour a different nurse or doctor stops in to check on something. It’s good to have the room to ourselves in between. My folks brought Nancy a poached egg in brown sugar and fermented rice, and a pizza for me. Tonight one of Nancy’s friends may sneak in some beer for me. It will be good to go home tomorrow, but it is nice...
Read MoreDamn, we’re pooped
So, Zoe and Apollo arrived around 3pm today. After a long hard labor, delivery took only about 10 minutes. Zoe weighed in at 6 lb. 1 oz, and Apollo was 4 lb. 11 oz. Nancy delivered in the OR on an operating table, and about a dozen doctors and nurses were ready to jump right into a C-section in case Apollo had difficulty making it out. But, they both arrived the old fashioned way, and are now...
Read MoreT minus 0 days?
We arrived at the hospital last night. Now it’s about noon, and after a sleepless night and what seemed like endless hours of contractions and labor, we finally got Nancy an epidural. Her platelet count was low, so there was doubt whether she could get an epidural. But there was a platelet recount, and she had barely enough. Now everything is groovy. Epidurals evidently are a lot scarier...
Read MoreAnd a big jug of vinegar
It appears there is a lot of cooking that needs to occur after delivery, which evidently involve pig feet, peanuts, rice wine, a chicken, dried pearl barley, dried mushrooms, and a big jug of black vinegar. These are needed to create the special post-delivery dishes that all Chinese moms need to eat for a month after delivery. Nancy fails to appreciate my fascination with the ingredients, and is...
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