Browsing Archive: September, 2010

Ezra Kurt...the significance.

Posted by Aprille on Thursday, September 30, 2010, In : Baby Ezra

It was very important to both Russ and I that our child's name be a name that not only did we both like, but also something that had significance to us, and a significance that we could pass on to our child. A name with meaning.

Why "Ezra"?

In discussion of our baby's first name, my husband wanted to have a Biblical name. I, not so much. I didn't mind our child having a Biblical name, but it wasn't that important to me. It seemed that Bible names fell into one of two categories... 1) the common...

Birth Announcement and Recovery Update

Posted by Aprille on Friday, September 17, 2010, In : Baby Ezra

Some of you are already aware of some of the content of this blog post, but others of you are not, so I am going to start at the beginning.

Ezra Kurt Donaldson was born September 7th, 10:32 PM. He weighed 9 lbs 13 oz and was 21 1/2 (I think) inches long.

When I ended up delivering Ezra by cesarean (that is a long story in itself which I will post about later) it was immensely difficult...but if I had known then what my recovery would be like I don't think it would have been so traumatizing.

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40 week update and pictures!

Posted by Aprille on Wednesday, September 1, 2010, In : Baby Ezra

Well, it seems that Squirt has decided to surprise everyone and stay in mommy's tummy a bit longer! We really thought we would have our baby by now but I guess Squirt wants to be a September baby. :)

Baby is growing steadily and doing just fine...Daddy and Mommy are a bit on the ansy side! I've been getting bigger and more uncomfortable every day and I'm very ready to be done with this pregnancy and be on to being a mother. I've been having weekly checkups and physically there is a lot of indi...
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