The greatest thing I've ever done

I'd like to introduce you all to the most amazing, incredible person I've ever had the fortune to meet. Jillian Margaret Harris was born at 5:33PM January 20th, 2006 (3 weeks early). After an incredibly difficult delivery (30 hours, capped with an emergency c-section), the strongest toughest person I've ever seen or heard of, my wife, delivered this truly phenomenal little girl into our lives. Please find attached a couple of photos. For those that are interested, I put some more pictures of Jillian into my wife's blog, which we'll be getting squared away once I get enough time to breathe and look around (almost 1 week and I still haven't had time to call all the family or start visits). I know the nursery looks a little sparse, but I drafted some excellent friends I have and we assembled the furniture, bedding and clothing in an astounding 4 hours Sunday afternoon when Mom & baby were resting. If I'm not around so much anymore, please don't take it personally. A beautiful young lady has stolen my heart away...

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More Jillian pics

Before anyone says something that might get them in deep doo-doo, no my daughter is not a hermaphrodite. That yellow thing in the first picture is the clip on the umbilical cord.

Don, don't take this personally, but you put too much of your life on the internet. I guess I can understand around here, where the atmosphere is friendy, but I still really think you should be careful about this stuff.

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Congratulations, man!

Little Jillian Corleone couldn't have got a finer guy for a dad.

Congratulations Don!! She's a li'l darlin'. :baby:

I don't take it personally Zorba. I've thought about what you say before, and at the end of the day, I figure how is announcing her birth online any more or less risky then announcing her birth in the newspaper (which unless I'm mistaken, you don't get much say over). I appreciate the concern.

~:confused: Have I really said that before? I need to lay off the grass...

Anyway, congratulations.

Let's see you get 2 hours of sleep a night for a week and how good your typing skills are. :dizzy2: I meant "I hear what you are saying (now) and I have thought of that before". You raise a valid concern, but at the end of the day, if some whack job wants to find you, they will. You can't live your life around what they might do. And I guess you've never seen me post in one of the Backroom 2nd ammendment threads. Let's just say ours wouldn't be the best house to try to break into. :no:

Thank you Zorba, Louis & Greg.

Many congrats Don !!! :balloon2: :2thumbsup: :balloon2:

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I need to lay off the grass...

Anyway, congratulations.

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Really? No way.

~:rolleyes:


Congrats on your daugther Don. I wish many happy years to your family.

Ah, congratulations Don. She looks a lot like you as well.

Well done Good Sir!

She's cute, nice job ! :2thumbsup: :balloon2: :balloon2: :balloon2: :balloon2:

Baby Corleone?

Excellent work! :bow:

Zorba, the thread is times and times more meaningful than "What is Saddam doing right now? YES RIGHT NOW!" and the likes. The community here feels like a "community" indeed rather than where a bunch of time wasters gather - at least it seems so to me. So, I see no reason why DC wouldn't share his happiness with us.

Don, congrats to you, greetings and wishes of quick recovery from such hard hours to Mrs. Corleone, and kisses to the little Bellucci. :balloon2:

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Mazel Tov

Congratulations Don. It couldn't have happened to a nicer bloke.

Congrats Don! I'm glad everything turned out well and good luck with your new daughter!:balloon2:

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Thank you Zorba, Louis & Greg.

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Well, I do see your point... I guess this is better, and one helluva lot nicer, than the average backrom thread. I think my issue just comes from the way I was raised; in my father's family (Irish, by the way) people really dodn't talk about any personal business outside of the family.

(But what is this Zorba, Louis and Greg business? I don't know any Louis or Greg...)

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Look at the two people under your inital post ~;)

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Zorba, take a nap mate ~:)

Ah, the alien invasion has started! Run for the hills!:laugh4:
Congratulations Don and good luck for the future with your little one!

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Congrats!

Now there is a thing of beauty. Congratulations, Don! :balloon2:

~:cheers: Congratulations!

Don, those photos are lovely - Jillian is a beauty and has such intelligent eyes.

Congratulations! I am very happy for you and your wife. ~:cheers:

Congrats from Papewaio, Wasabi and Babywaio. ~:cheers: :balloon: :balloon2: :balloon3:

All the best Don to you and yours.

Just remember they start to give backchat at about 9 or 10, so enjoy it man. They were the best years of my life. And that's a fact. I know they will be for you too.

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Congrats man. I really like these threads, I mean who wouldn't cheer up seeing a baby? Nice thing that people like Lemur and Don brighten up the tavern :2thumbsup:.

Congradulations. May the Lord bless you and your family. :2thumbsup:

Awww lookit the lil' babee! Bless her, and congrats to you and your lady.

Congrats, Don & Co. :balloon2: :balloon2:

You'll never be the same. And you'll like that, in the quiet moments.

She's a darling, with a wonderful name. May she have a happy, healthy, fulfilling life, filled with sunshine, and just enough rain to grow well.

Congratulations, Papa! :balloon2:

Ajax

Congratulations Don & Co! :medievalcheers:

Congratulations to you and Mrs DC my friend

I'm sure BabyDC will have a long happy life filled with family and friends, sunshine and laughter.

Oh, and a balloon :balloon2:

Congratulations to you and your wife! :balloon2: Hopefully you will not lose too much sleep.. ~;)

Congratulations mate. :balloon2:

Good thing to know that everybody is healthy. :2thumbsup:

Congradulations Don!

I'm sure you're lives will be filled with countless joyous occasions.

She looks remarkably lucid for a newborn. A fine child indeed!

*them music plays in the back* *BP kneels and kisses Don Corleone hand*

Don Corleone, may your child be a strong and sexy person.

Tana anana anana naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Just saw this thread.

Great news, Don!!!

Congrats to Mrs. Corleone and you :balloon2: :balloon2: :balloon2:

And a big welcome to Jillian "Corleone" :jumping:

Congrats. That's a pretty baby.

I wouldn't say it unless I meant it. Nobody says "That's an ugly baby", they say "nice baby" or some other BS. But she looks like a cutie, all pink and nasty from a vicious entrance into this cold and cruel world.

You're a lucky man. Two arms, two legs, and no complications I assume?

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Simply gawjus'. Congrats, Don!

Thank you, thank you everyone.

Jillian had some difficulties with jaundice (caused by a large bruise she received when they tried to use vaccuum extraction) and her lower than average birth weight had us worried. But we got 2 thumbs up from the pediatrician yesterday. 1 week later and she's back up to her birth weight. She's expected to be right at 50% for height & weight once she gets caught up (probably about 3 weeks).

Not that I'm biased or anything, but Jillian is quite alert & precocious for the ripe old age of 1 week. She responds to stimulus in an appropriate fashion, knows Mom, knows Dad. She shows a LOT of curiousity about the world around her, which I was surprised by. I didn't think that she would start looking around and being inquisitive for another couple of weeks.

No long term affects from being premature, and happily, Mrs. C. is about as caught up on the sleep as she can be. My mother has been staying with us and that has been a God send.

BP's post made me laugh, and it actually got me thinking of Luco Brazzi's speech in the wedding scene of the first Godfather "And may their first child be a masculine child". She's not, but it was still funny.

And DA, I really appreciate your comments, and I do know what you mean. I used to say "There's no such thing as an ugly baby". I'm sorry to say, after checking out some of Jillian's nursery mates at the hospital, this is certainly not the case. I also have a 'proud papa' tale to tell....

I was waiting for my wife to come out of the recovery room and head up to ICU (just for monitoring) in the nursery waiting room (where families gather to see the buggers). I was exhausted (I had been up for 2.5 days) but I was terrified they'd head up to ICU without stopping to get me, so I forced myself to stay up and was sprawled on a chair in the corner. Two large families were checking out their respective babies and congratulating each other. Without a peep from me, both families noticed Jillian and immediately turned their attention to 'that beautiful baby in the corner, like a little fairy princess'. Forgot all about their own kids! I can't blame them, my girl is gonna be a looker. She's very, very lucky she favors mama. My wife, when she's not pumped full of magnesium and petocin, which causes you to retain an extra 3 quarts of fluid, is very fetching, and I think Jillian is going to surpass her. In any case, she doesn't have my klingon forehead :wall: , a fact she should thank her lucky stars for every day. :2thumbsup:

Again, thank you all for you kind wishes and I will pass them along to Mrs. Corleone.

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Originally Posted by Don Corleone

I'd like to introduce you all to the most amazing, incredible person I've ever had the fortune to meet. Jillian Margaret Harris was born at 5:33PM January 20th, 2006 (3 weeks early). After an incredibly difficult delivery (30 hours, capped with an emergency c-section), the strongest toughest person I've ever seen or heard of, my wife, delivered this truly phenomenal little girl into our lives. Please find attached a couple of photos. For those that are interested, I put some more pictures of Jillian into my wife's blog, which we'll be getting squared away once I get enough time to breathe and look around (almost 1 week and I still haven't had time to call all the family or start visits). I know the nursery looks a little sparse, but I drafted some excellent friends I have and we assembled the furniture, bedding and clothing in an astounding 4 hours Sunday afternoon when Mom & baby were resting. If I'm not around so much anymore, please don't take it personally. A beautiful young lady has stolen my heart away...

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...off_resize.jpg

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v.../hi_mom_rs.jpg

More Jillian pics

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Congratulations, ma man! Welcome to the ranks of fatherhood! Take good care of that beautiful young lady (actually, I'm sure there was no need for me to even tell you that). And please give Mrs. Corleone a congratulatory hug from me as well.

One thing I will point out to you:

I would hope that Mrs. Corleone does not see the title of this thread, as she may take exception to it. As Mrs. Goofball is so fond of reminding me when discussing the reproduction process, I didn't really do anything all that hard...

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Congrats on the beutiful baby Don Corleone!

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She's very, very lucky she favors mama. My wife, when she's not pumped full of magnesium and petocin, which causes you to retain an extra 3 quarts of fluid, is very fetching, and I think Jillian is going to surpass her. In any case, she doesn't have my klingon forehead :wall: , a fact she should thank her lucky stars for every day. :2thumbsup:

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So....what's the age of consent in your state ? :2thumbsup:

A lovely baby. He'll be a blessing to your family. And may he, when he grows, be "TeH RTVV H4xOr!!!!":laugh4: :2thumbsup:

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Grrrrr.....:boxing:

I hope your child is a handsome child and grows to be strong and powerful like me... Donald Trump.

Congrats.

Nothing better then being a brand new father.

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I think I know doc_bean too well on this forum to misunderstand this as anything other than a harmless joke, but what a weird sense of humor some of you Euros have.

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Congratulations Don , enjoy the fun .

Just remember they start to give backchat at about 9 or 10, so enjoy it man
Damn , does that mean mine are very advanced for their ages , or are they just little brats .

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I think I know doc_bean too well on this forum to misunderstand this as anything other than a harmless joke, but what a weird sense of humor some of you Euros have.

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It's probably the widespread pollution. :skull:

EDIT: I don't want to hijack this thread. Congrats again, Don !

Good shot Don Corleone! May she bring honour to your family!

Congratulations!:2thumbsup:
She may be even prettier than my Aurora was a couple of weeks ago...
(hope my wife doesn't read this)
We're having a great time here, I wish I could have just stayed home with my girls a bit longer though. :juggle2:

Many Congratulations!!

May God Bless your beautiful baby and your whole family.

Crazed Rabbit

(Hmph, I was a bit tardy in getting here.~:()


Congratulations Don!

The eyes really get me too.

I know you'll take the job seriously and that you and your wife will do well raising her.

I hope your wife has recovered well, and you should catch up on your sleep if you haven't already.

Best wishes.

Congratulations to you Don and your family!I hope she brings lot of joy and light to your lives.~:)

Congratulations Don, hope you have more!

Congratulations, Don, and the best to your entire family !~:cheers:

Thank you for the kind thoughts and words everyone. Two weeks later (tomorrow) and all appears to be going quite well. Her weight is up, the jaundice has passed, and the lungs... well, let's just say she favors daddy when she's not pleased. :furious3: For the most part, sleep hasn't been too bad, as I've just ignored my wifes pleas to wake up for nocturnal feedings. Just kidding, but my wife is breastfeeding. The only thing I'm on the hook for is the diaper change which I only get woken up for when necessary. My wife & I have worked out an agreement that since she gets the midnight & 3AM feedings during my worknights, she's going to pump on Thursday & Friday afternoon and I'll take them on Friday & Saturday nights. So I'm a bit crankier than normal on Saturday & Sunday, please understand why. I know, I know, how can I possibly get any crankier... well, you were warned. :skull:

By the way, new photos uploaded to the blog, so more Jilly-bean for all. ~:)

Congratulations Don, and may she lead a long, enjoyable life.

Congratulations Don :medievalcheers: