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Announcing the birth of our son, Benjamin John Dickerson, born on March 29th, 2006. He’s an adorable morning-person. He inherited his eyebrows and hands from Mommy, eyes and ears from Daddy, and a shock of red hair perhaps from some third donor we know little about. Benjamin very much loves to be cuddled. He finds [...]

Benjamin was born at St. Joseph’s hospital in Tucson, Arizona. The care we received there was absolutely wonderful. One particular nurse was really fun: she had a very pragmatic approach to parenting infants in general, and nursing in particular. “People try to treat babies as if they’re stupid, but I’ll tell you what: your son [...]

Emily was connected to all kinds of sensors and things, which beeped terribly and made noises when she moved. Then once, Emily got a strange look on her face, and blinked hard, as if swallowing something big. The nurse looked up at the readings and said, “Oh, look! You had a contraction!”. Emily asked, “Does [...]

In order to have a c-section done, you apparently have to get a spinal block of some sort called an epidural. This is something that people often opt to have done when they do regular labor, but when it comes to c-sections, it is not optional. We weren’t planning on any anesthesia at all, but [...]

We went in for a regular check-up, two weeks before Benjamin was supposed to be born. Our regular doctor didn’t do sonograms: “I went to the classes and everything, but I can’t make head nor tails of what I’m looking at with those things. I just use the nurses at St Jose’s — they know [...]