{"id":101,"date":"2006-11-24T19:45:51","date_gmt":"2006-11-25T02:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=101"},"modified":"2006-11-27T08:41:21","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T15:41:21","slug":"it-really-was-a-happy-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=101","title":{"rendered":"It really WAS a happy Thanksgiving!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bad news? Q and I didn&#8217;t get any turkey or stuffing yesterday. The good news? We got a baby instead! I hope to post a longer version of the story later (when I&#8217;m not so tired) but for now I&#8217;ll say that Sesame (official name: Zoe Alisabel Browdy, weight: 7 lbs 3 oz, height: 21 in) was born yesterday at 11:11 PM. We got to the hospital around 3 PM (after several hours of watching football and trying to determine whether I was really in labor), and I started the pushing process around 8 PM. My pre-epidural experience totally stunk, but after the anesthesiologist &#8211; my new best friend &#8211; came, things were fabulous. And I learned that what all moms have told me is true: you really DO forget about the pain when you meet the baby. I was completely in awe when the nurse plunked Zoe on my belly; it was the most amazing moment of my life! (And this comes from a person who never considered herself very maternal!) Other highlights include watching her sleep (which she&#8217;s done a lot of), and watching Q &#8211; a total natural &#8211; snuggle with her.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, the experience has been like nothing I could have imagined &#8211; and I would do it again in a heartbeat. We can&#8217;t wait for everyone to meet her. We&#8217;re going to be posting Day 1 pictures in the gallery to the right soon. For now, here are also a few of our faves.<\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image91\" height=\"243\" alt=\"Shell and Zoe in the first hour\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sesame.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/1-shell-and-zoe-in-the-first-hour.JPG\" width=\"324\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image92\" height=\"243\" alt=\"Zoe and Family\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sesame.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/2-zoe-and-family.JPG\" width=\"324\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image93\" height=\"243\" alt=\"Zoe in Delivery Room\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sesame.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/3-zoe-in-delivery-room.JPG\" width=\"324\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image95\" height=\"243\" alt=\"Zoe with Tongue\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sesame.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/5-zoe-with-tongue.JPG\" width=\"324\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image96\" height=\"243\" alt=\"Zoe Sucking Thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sesame.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/6-zoe-sucking-thumb.JPG\" width=\"324\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image97\" alt=\"Q and Zoe the morning after\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sesame.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/7-q-and-zoe-the-morning-after.JPG\" width=\"324\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image98\" height=\"243\" alt=\"Zoe napping\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sesame.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/8-zoe-napping.JPG\" width=\"324\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bad news? Q and I didn&#8217;t get any turkey or stuffing yesterday. The good news? We got a baby instead! I hope to post a longer version of the story later (when I&#8217;m not so tired) but for now I&#8217;ll say that Sesame (official name: Zoe Alisabel Browdy, weight: 7 lbs 3 oz, height: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labor-and-delivery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}