A long, hard day (Kilala.nl (Cailin Coilleach)) by Cailin Coilleach

*yaaaawn* *stretch* *pop!* Ouch! >_<

This has been a long and hard day... We'd planned a few important baby-things today, after which I borked up and booked some work related things as well. "Tightly packed" is one way to describe my schedule.

I woke at 0530 and left for Snow's new office around 0800. Around 0930 I'd have my exit consult with one of the company's directors, thus taking care of some paperwork that needed to be done. Among them is the huge list of hard- and software that I purchased using my IB. We'll now have to decide what we want to keep and what goes back to Snow.

After all of that I had to rush home because we had an OB/GYN appointment around 1130. The echo shows that the kid's still fine and that she's rather slender with long legs. Estimates are that she's between five and seven pounds in weight. The talk with the gyno went pretty easy and it was decided that we'd go for a Caesarian. Personally my preferences lie with a natural birth, but since things just doesn't look right we'll have to opt for plan B.

After that followed groceries, a run to city hall for some paperwork and some more stuff for dinner.

As if that wasn't enough we also had a two-hour appointment at the hospital again around 20:00. We'd get the whole show and tell story of how the hospital handles deliveries and how the whole show goes down. I found it quite remarkable that the whole room was attentive until the anesthesiologist brought in diagrams. Then it was straight back to bio class in high school, with everyone chatting and noone paying attention. Weird.

Anywho... After tonight we are definitely considering going to the hospital in Nieuwegein instead. Their facilities are more modern and comfortable and their opening hours to husbands are -way- better. In Utrecht fathers are only permitted to visit between 1200 and 2100, while Nieuwegein allows you in 24x7. Nieuwegein also offers more privacy.

Meh... I'm off to bed.

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