And for my 1,000th post, I am a Grandma!

[Claudia1]

Thanks Serena and everybody for waiting with me! She had little crampings all day on Friday and we even went to the local, high school football game. We got into the van to come home and I asked her if the pains had stopped all the way. She said, "no" and immediately had a major pain. She then had 5 pains in 15 minutes. Within 90 minutes, we were on our way to the hospital. During the 30 minute trip, her contractions were 2-3 minutes apart (yikes!).

She was only dilated to 4 and her water was intact. Her birthing coach was fantastic and she was born about 16 hours from the first, significant pain. I won't go into the details here on the DIS but the last "phase" happened in minutes instead of the usual hour or so. Her poor OB doc was in an emergency surgery. The baby wasn't compressed very long in the canal, so her head is quite perfectly shaped.

The most amazing thing to me was the baby's first reactions. She cried on her own and the Doc put her on DD's tummy. As DD was trying to speak/cry/rejoice/understand, the baby stopped criying and turned toward her voice. That happened 3 times! The Doc eventually joked with my DD that crying was a good thing and to please not speak for a minute. We all cracked up and all was well.

DD has a great way with the baby. Had the first successful feeding tonight (and the baby's first full tummy and big burp, too).She will be coming home tomorrow and wanted to be on her own tonight. The staff is so incredibly excellent that I agreed.

Today was a big day, with kids from church & school stopping by. I (of course) took charge a couple of times and provided crowd control.

On a sad note, one of DD's friends drowned today. He was a kid that had taken the wrong path in life and his Mom sent him away to a special school. He returned a new person and had successfully changed his life. We had made an effort for years to pick him up for church but he was not consistent. It was a tragic accident caused by not respecting the strong undercurrents.

Well, I am off to bed for a bit of sleep before I bring them home tomorrow. Thanks again, everybody!

[kejoda]

Congratulations Grandma!!!!!!!! I'm so happy that things went well. That is such wonderful news. So what are you calling her?

I'm so sorry about your dd's friend. That is so sad. Prayers for the family.

[nativetxn]

Oh my friend! What wonderful happy news! You're a grandma, that's what I want to be :)

I'm glad that your dd is doing well and I'm in tears from the story about the baby turning to her voice. How <b>magical</b> is that?

{{{HUGS}}} my friend, get some rest. Congratulations and let the fun begin :)

I'm sorry to hear about your dd's friend, very sad :(

[poohbears5]

I am so glad everything went well and mommy and baby are doing good!!! Congratulations Grandmom!!!!!!!!!!:Pinkbounc :Pinkbounc :Pinkbounc :Pinkbounc

[EROS]

CONGRATULATIONS, GRANDMA!!!!!!!!!

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[browneyes]

Congrats, Grandma.:) I love your 1,000 post!:Pinkbounc

That's sweet about the baby. She already responds to your dd.:) She sound healthy, and ready to be spoiled.:)

I hope your dd is doing well.:)

Sorry about your dd's friend.:(

[Dan Murphy]

Claudia, having met both you and Mallory, I do have a tear reading your report here. A loving grandma, a loving daughter and mom, two loved daughters. Beautiful. Thanks for sharing life, Claudia. {Hugs}.

So sad about Mallory's friend. A life ends, a life begins. God bless and be with him.

[minniecarousel]

So glad everyone's doing well. It sounds as though you all have a wonderful support system!

(so sorry about the young friend - so sad)

[catsrule]

conCATulations, Grandma!

[Doctor P]

Congratulations!

[tiggerlover]

Congratulations, Grandma!!! :) Does this new angel have a name?

Sorry for the loss of DD friend.

:bounce::wave::bounce:

[Patrick IL.]

Congratulations Claudia!!! Wonderful news:sunny:

I am sorry to hear of the loss of DD's friends, so tragic:(

[dianeschlicht]

CONGRATULATIONS!! To all 3 of you!
and
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[Big V]

Congrats to you and your daughter Claudia!:cool:

[dizneenut]

Congratulations, Grandma!! :) :)

So sorry to hear about DD's friend. :(

[helenabear]

Congratulations Claudia to you and Mallory! Glad to hear everything went well.

I am so sorry to hear about Mallory's friend... so very sad :( My thoughts and prayers are will all his loved ones.

[Dream]

CONGRATULATIONS GRANDMA!!!! So happy for all of you!!!!
Very sorry about dd's friend:(

[glo]

Congrats to you and your DD!!! What an awesome 1000th post!!

I am so glad that it was a good delivery and that your DD bonded with the baby so quickly. Isn't birth an absolute miracle? Lots of hugs to you all.

So how do you like being a grandma??? :)


My codolences to your DD's friends family and an extra hug to her.

[CarolG]

Congratulations Claudia! :Pinkbounc :Pinkbounc :Pinkbounc Glad to hear everyone's doing well.

Sorry to hear about DD's friend.:(

[Serena]

I think I may have even forgotten to say Congratulations. :)

I am so glad things are going even better than well for Mallory. I know I was just one of the people worried for her.

I'm sorry about her friend. :(

[Ranatra]

Congratulations on the birth of your new granddaughter!

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[faith]

Congratulations Grandma! I'm glad the delivery went well and your daughter and baby are fine.:D

So sorry to hear the sad news about her friend.

[amid chaos]

Congratulations, I have been following her pregnancy since the beginning and it's wonderufl to hear good news.

[snoopy]

Congratulations Grandma! :) I'm so glad to hear that the birthing process was a relatively easy one for your daughter, and that she is now bonding with her new baby.

Also so sorry to hear about your daughter's friend. Very tragic. :(

Hopefully we can see some pics of the new baby, pretty please? :)

[jx3smom]

Congratulations Grandma. Please keep us posted on how things are going. Enjoy these very special times.

[newmousecateer]

Congratulations Grandma! http://www.wdwinfo.com/sites/family/daisy.gif

{{{HUGS}}} to all of you!

[Blondie]

<font color=pink>Congratulations Claudia and Mallory!</font>

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[TigerBear]

Congratulations! I have no doubt you will be as good a grandmother as you are a mother.

[kinlaw6450]

Congratulations!!!

[Keli]

Congratulations! I'm so glad to hear that the birth went well and you have healthy new granddaughter.

[MerryPoppins]

So where are the pictures, Grandma? ;)

Seriously, glad that everything went so well. Bet you'll be glad to get that little bundle home.

Give Mallory a hug. I'm so sorry about the death of her friend. I'll keep his friends and family in my prayers.

[gemmie214]

Congratulations!!:bounce: I am so happy to hear that things went smoothly. :)

I am very sorry about your DD friend:(

[daughter_of_amid_chaos]

Congratulations!

[fireplug]

Congatulations Grandma !!!!!!!!!!!!
Time to start planning that first trip to WDW with DGD.

Steve

[Boots]

This is so wonderful!!! I am so happy that everything went well! I too had very short labors, 4 hours with DD and 2 hours with DS!

[Towncrier]

Congrats to you and DD (and DGD too). We were all anxiously awaiting your 1000th post with the good news. And it was worth the wait.

Sad to hear about your DD's friend. I say a prayer for his family.

[DopeyRN]

Congratulations!!!!! I look forward to that day for myself!

[Pooh93]

Congratulations to all of you!! Welcome to the new baby!!!http://www.plauder-smilies.de/love/ylinfant.gif

[NancyIL]

Congratulations, Claudia! :D What exciting news!!

[NHAnn]

Congrats fellow grandma! How wonderful that you were there! :)

So sad about the drowning :(

[bsnyder]

Congrats! Glad momma and baby are doing so well!

[Kermit]

Congratulations to you and your DD!

My prayers are with all those who will be affected by that young man's passing. That is too sad. :(