Jonah arrives to Nineveh (Chicago)

After a 10 month journey, Jonah finally arrived . . .

I (Andrew) had a little chat with Jonah, when he was still only known as Sesame, on Saturday night (already 5 days past his due date) and explained to him that it would be great if he could come out the next day, but that he should perhaps not begin his journey until around 10am or so, so that Yael could have a good night's sleep with which to begin labor.

Yael and I awoke around 9:30 or 10 on Sunday morning and she mentioned that she slept relatively poorly and had cramps during the night. In addition, she said she thought she might be having contractions now. I measured the time between contraction --- about 3.5 minutes apart. We decided that if, by chance, Yael really was in labor, of which we were not convinced since we were both certain that she would have to be induced the following weekend, that she would need a good carby breakfast with which to fuel her labor. I made us chocolate banana walnut pancakes --- yum!

To make a long story short, Yael was not experiencing Braxton-Hicks contractions, and after a long walk, laboring with with our doula Isabelle, frightening our neighbor with a moaning contraction in the front hallway, water breaking outside U of C hospital, and a total of 15+ hours of labor Jonah came dramatically into our lives.

Our hope is that this blog will be a chronicle of Jonah, a.k.a. Yoni, and our journey together, and provide us with a way of sharing pictures and stories with friends and family.