Recently, with the help of my wife, I went ahead and spawned a child process.
The birth papers identify her as a 6lb 6oz (2kg 800g) baby female (or BF as it said on her id tag). We named her Natalie Ethel. The old-fashioned middle name is honoring my grandmother, as well as letting my daughter write her name as Natalie E. (like in Wile E. Coyote). My wife got to choose the first name and settled on Natalie. The goal was to pick a simple name that has a clear analog in Russian. Thus Natalie/Natasha. The cartoon conotation is purely accidental. One thing for sure – Gary the Cat and Tilde the Cat are not being renamed “Muss and Skworrl“.
Natalie was delivered in New York Presbyterian Hospital on the Upper East Side. I got to say that we are very fortunate in that our insurance covered it, as it’s pretty much a fancypants hospital. Downstairs I saw several limos and a Maybach (a $300K+ Mercedes). The delivery room was huge and had a great view of the Roosevelt Island and Queensboro Bridge.
The wires that you see on the windowsill in the previous picture were hooked up to my wife throughout labor (it’s a standard procedure in that hospital) and were used to continuously display the baby’s heartbeat. The Windows 3.11 application had the funniest little icons, and an especially cute picture of a choo-choo train that pulsed in and out. The sound effects for the choo-choo were provided by that Doppler heartbeat sound. Things to note are the funny icon representing a pregnant woman in the left corner, the nurse’s name that also doubles as a certain catroon professor’s catchphrase and the 47 in the heartbeat rate.
As I mentioned before, this hospital is fancy and is for rich folks mostly. This means a lot of pictures of dead white men. The whole hospital is basically encrusted with pictures of very rich people who gave money for the hospital and distinguished doctors who led various departments. The pictures in the maternity ward were a bit unusual. Not that there was a minority or a female doctor, but it was very interesting to see that unlike the doctor before him and after him, Dr. Fritz Fuchs who chaired the department in 60s and 70s, in the spirit of the decades, chose to have his portrait done in a modernist manner.
Now that I have a brand-spanking-new baby on my hands, and a wife who can get very upset over things like remembering the sad story about the sentient ocean in Stanislaw Lem’s “Solaris“, my blogging frequency is not likely to be much improved.
But I promise you that as much as I am envious of the popularity of the bloggers that write almost exclusively about ther children and pets, and despite the increasingly personal nature of my posts, this is not a permanent trend.
Also, I will try to avoid referring to my child by a weird and/or embarrassing nickname. Bloggers really let loose with children’s nicknames: Mayor McFreaky, The Squrrily, The Chub and the Grub, Puhtishkin, Kutuzov and Homiak (Hamster), Fasolets (Uhh, Broadbean?). Both Russian-speaking and anglophones. What’s up with that?
Wow, Congrats!
My congratulations!!!
Spasibo.
Thank you
Thank you.
It’s because you are a classy sophisticate, I on the other hand can’t write a sentence without a cartoon reference.
Yeah, the gen-X-ers are entering the reproducing stage.
Tha-tha-thatnkyou! :)
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“..I went ahead and spawned a child process…”
It’s all due to that promiscuous forking…
;^)
Ccongratulations!
I would not call it promiscuous :)
Pozdravlyau!
Well done!
Funny, the name Natasha brings Tolstoy to mind sooner than Moose and Squirrel. But that’s just me.
Congratulations! I swear, it’s like a radio signal was activated in all our brains at the same time. You had a baby, I’m pregnant, Andrew and his wife are trying to conceive. Babies everywhere!
Wow-wow-wow! Congratulations! :)
Mazel Tov.
BF … like the language? ;)
Congratulations. Keep a diary, you may surprised how quickly endearing traits disappear and become forgotten. The same goes for photos of course, but I imagine you have this base covered.
“Also, I will try to avoid referring to my child by a weird and/or embracing nickname.”
If you had spawned your child process about five years earlier, you could have used “Gnat”–but James Lileks got there ahead of you. And congratulations! May you dotter be less a handful than mine has.