Here we are two years later

On October 21 2015, at 3:59, during Real Madrid vs PSG in the champions league, little Isabella was born.  Two days before Monica started having a lot of pain in her back and contractions.  On October 20th we went to the hospital, paid 110 pesos for the remis because Monica couldn't walk.


They monitored Monica for an hour or so and then said it was still to early and we should go home.  So we took the bus 41 back home.  Monica felt relieved that there wasn't any issues and she felt better.  The next morning Monica told me she didn't sleep at all and she had contractions all night.  We had a scheduled stress test with Doctor Manrique so at 11:00 we decided to leave for the hospital.  Again Monica couldn't walk so we took another remis.  We got to the hospital and let the doctors know that Monica was at 38 weeks and had had contractions all night.  They took her to a little room called the pre-parto room.  I waited outside figuring they would let us leave later.  The nurse, after about an hour, came into the hall and said I need to go and sign Monica in.  So I went and registered Monica.  I came back and waited in the hall.


The nurse came out and said I should go in and change. I said why change, but then I figured ok I guess this is happening.  I changed into the green doctors scrubs and went back into the room.  Monica was already in the labor room with her epidural.  I sat beside her for a while and finally the doctor came and said it was time.


My job was the head holder.  Monica was in a lot of pain and asked for more pain medicine.  They gave her some.  After some more contractions and pushing the doctor said its time to deliver.  So they go the stirrups ready and the bed handles and we were ready to go.  Monica's hands were numb and she said she could grip her legs to push.  She pushed and pushed and it looked like it was hurting.  I was basically lifting weights fighting her head. The official head holder is not an easy job.  But I figured I wouldn't complain.

After some agonizing pushes the doctor got the suction.  And sucked Isabella out.  The doctor told me to look, and I looked and saw her head.  She was slimy.  Then Monica held her and then I guess they cut the cord.  I went into a little room and the measured and cleaned her.  It was pretty amazing.  After that I changed and went to our room where I waited for Monica and the baby.  We spent one restless night together at the hospital.  The next day everything was all good.

I spent that night at home and slept pretty well.  The next day I went back to the hospital and they gave us the all clear.  After rounding up all our gear we left the hospital in a remis.

Monica and her friends had a nice little baby shower here in our apartment.  I was the official decorated and distracter of Simon.  People enjoyed my decoration ability.  I inflated balloons.  Well now Monica is saying I just put things up, and she actually was the decorator.  Anyways we did good a job.  Her friends arrived, Melina, and Mariel.  They helped set things up.  Then I had to go to the train station to pick up Monica's mom and Simon.  Simon was excited to be in the city and see all the buses.  Even when we were on the bus he liked to point out the other buses.
They played games and had a lot of fun.  I distracted Simon with the iPad watching Peppa the pig,,his favorite show.  We had a lot of leftover food, chocolate and gaseosa.
People that attended were, Melina Rosas, Mariel Zangara, Graciela Rosas, Zuni Chavez, Ida Arevalos, Natalia Villalba.  We received some nice presents.
It was a great baby shower.  The only thing missing was a couple of family members we really wished could have made it.  Andrea Carrizo had to work and couldn't make it.  And because of 6000 kilometers my family couldn't make it, but Monica really wished that Mary, and Marilyn, and Karen, and Katherine and Tammy, Jennifer could have all been there.  We'll have a USA baby party and invite everyone.

Thanks Aunt Andrea, we love the baby bag.  Gracias tía Andrea

Part of the fun of being pregnant is being able to buy baby clothes and part of the fun of having baby clothes is imagining a little body in those little baby clothes.  Monica prays that Isabella will have her Latina skin color and not white Northern European sock color skin.  We're excited to see what she looks like in the new nike shoes her uncle Scott bought for her.  And all the clothes grandma Marilyn is buying for her.

This is what pregnant mommies do. They like to sleep, but don't wake them up, and have plenty of food on hand when they do wake up, and it's alright if they snore, they're really tired from carrying the extra weight around.  All the kicks and punches in the womb makes mommies sore but she loves it.

Just a few more short weeks!

 

Technopolis is basically a giant fair that showcases all of Argentina's "cool" things and technology. Free admission (paid for by the government) meant that it was a easy and fun date with the wife, just a 45 min bus ride to the outskirts of Buenos Aires.

The day we went was holidy which meant that it was packed full of people. One bad thing about free admission is that almost everything had a long line to get in, for some reason Argentines seem to like forming lines and waiting, (there is a line for everything, the bank, grocery store...).

Anyways we had fun walking around and looking at what we could see, which was mostly people standing in lines waiting to go inside to see something. We walked around, had a picnic and looked at the interesting dinosaur exhibit, which also had a long long line but we could still see the dinosaurs.

We then decided to wait in line to what looked like a cool modern art exhibit. After waiting for 30 minutes in a short line we were finally let inside, but it wasn't a modern art exhibit, it was, well I'm not sure what it was, just a little warehouse with college students thesis' in display cases, their actual papers just sitting behind display cases. It had something to do with music and the math behind music and notes, who knows, so we looked around, laughed, and tried to figure out why we had to wait 30 minutes to get inside.

Then we went to a big expo center and they had a video game exhibit, pretty cool right, but there was a long line and Monica didn't want to wait in a line to see something she had little interest in, so I managed to peek inside, and after seeing Xbox 360 and dance dance revolution on display, I figured it was probably good we didn't wait in line, not exactly the E3 expo in Las Vegas.

The dinosaurs were cool and they also had some mockumentary about aliens attacking buenos aires in the sixties which was covered up by the government, that was interesting.

A fun interesting fair which was not exactly a World's Fair or Stark Industry new technology fair.....
Argentina is still pretty far behind the USA.