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Actually just this morning he put on a little fountain show. Didn't get me this time but he did get the changing table pretty good. Both Rachel and I have been peed on but no trace of malice.

Sleep has been better lately. Saturday we switched to breast-milk-in-bottle mode because he was having trouble eating consistently. Since then I have been able to help with the feedings so Rachel can have longer continuous stretches of sleep. The downside is a lot of bottles to clean but otherwise it's going well.

I visited the Winter clan a couple weeks ago. Can confirm that Logan is super cute. And the Winter parents seemed pretty chill about the whole "being parents" thing.

Bee tee dubs yall bein techs and all have you wired up baby LD? Eg Mimo smart baby or something like that?

The best option is to wait until you should be writing a paper. 

Matt's account of the having-a-baby story is pretty detailed and accurate.  The only thing I can add was when I got my spinal block since he had to wait outside the OR while that happened.

So a spinal block is different from a traditional epidural in that with an epidural you still have the ability to push without being able to feel the contractions.  A spinal block is pretty self explanitory; you can neither feel nor operate anything below a certain point.  They said that if it were a good spinal block I may still feel pressure when they did the incision.  So mine must have been fantastic because I felt nothing below my chest.  I had to sit on the edge of the operating table while they put in the port for the block and then the block itself.  Holy hell that was worse than anything else I went through.  They numb the skin where the needle goes in but that's it.  And then they poke around until they find the correct nerve (i.e. when they poke in the right spot that makes your right leg jump involuntarily into the air).  They hit my left leg nerve though and didn't really barely hit it they poked the hell out of it.  So my left leg kicked the shit out of the nurse holding my hands and then I started crying because it felt like my leg was on fire.

Enter Dr. Brody OB - Dr. Brody walked in right after they "found my nerve" and was like "omg what's wrong" and I'm like kill these bastards that just lit my leg on fire.  Then he's all like just wait a second and it'll all be better.  Then the numbing started to work and I didn't care about anything anymore.  Pretty sure they did some other stuff (catheter arranging etc.).  

Enter Matt - So Matt and I are looking at each other while they're operating because I'm loopy and he doesn't want to see beyond the curtain.  I almost fell asleep a couple of times thanks to the anesthesia but they wouldn't let me no fair.

And the rest you've already read.  I'll just add that it's pretty miraculous how quickly you recover from a c-section considering how major of a surgery it is.  It's also crazy that it's a smaller scar than my heart surgery and arm surgery scars.

And just so you guys know none of the hard parts during the first week are easily remembered once you've held that baby. Super cheesy and cliche I know but it's so true.

There you go Drew.  I hope that was satisfactory.  Now if you'd like to know the trials and tribulations of breast feeding...