Baby News!

"And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered." - Luke 2:6

Becky and Jared's new baby sister is finally here! Emma Marie Barnet was born on Thursday, April 9, 2008 at 2:27 a.m. She was 8 pounds, 0 ounces, and was 21½ inches long. For more photos of her, check out my MySpace family album.



This delivery went remarkably fast compared to the other kids. Becky and Jared both were over 10+ hours of labor, but Emma was a quick 4. With the other kids, there was much pacing and timing contractions to be had. Not so this time. Misti's water broke, and that was the sign. In we went. Misti dialated from a 3 to a 6 in about an hour, then from 6 to 8 in about another hour, then 8 to a 10 & 100% effaced in about another hour! After only about 20 minutes of pushing, Emma was here. =)

Becky's birth was all natural (no epidural), while Jared's was with an epidural. In hindsight, that first epidural was magical, because as soon as it was in, the pain immediately stopped, and Misti was instantly relaxed. It was shockingly hilarious, actually, and the tension level dropped to the floor in about 3 seconds.

With Emma, however, the epidural didn't immediately kill the pain. Apparently, it worked a little better on one side than the other, so when the contractions hit, she could still feel them on one side. She had to lay on her side to allow the numbing agent to filter down to that other side. About 15 minutes later, the pain finally was gone. Interesting.

Other random stuff: I've been listening to a fair amount of AM talk radio over the past few months, which is highly untypical of me, since I heretofore have not had any interest in politics.

Now, however, I've been interested in the 2008 Presidential Election coverage since about January, when all the rukus over John McCain, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Ron Paul, Fred Thompson, Rudolph Giuliani, Bill Richardson and the rest took the center stage.

The short list of talk shows I've heard on my commutes to and from work have been primarily on AM 670 KBOI in Boise:

• Lars Larson
• Dennis Miller
• Michael Savage
• Bill O'Reilly
• Sean Hannity
• Chris Walton & Paul J. Schneider (Idaho Talks Live)

We enjoyed General Conference last weekend, and are blessed to live in Idaho where it is broadcast on public television. If anyone missed the live webcasts, the webcast replays are still available. =)

I perused with interest two great websites I found today sponsored by the Idaho Statesman, Sacajawea and MP3Idaho. Lots of free music at the latter one. Cool!