Sacha & Ana

It's a Baby Story!

2008-01-29T11:55:00.006-05:00

I wake up on the 20th Of January to have breakfast with my father and bring him to the train union train station in downtown Toronto. My father had been here since the 26th December 2007 to help out in renovating my home. It had been quite an adventure! After we had breakfast at a Crepe spot we headed to the station where I dropped him off.

As I get into my car I am thinking I have to finish off the house for the baby. I call my fiancée to check up on her around 11h15 am and arrive to her house. As expected my fiancée was tired and told me she will rest for the day and I will get going to the house to work. We had worked hard in the house all week. As I go to the beer store and get some beer for some buds to come and help out. And I get to the house and I get started, 20 minutes later I get a phone call from my fiancée telling me that she has to go to the hospital to get herself checked. She wants to make sure the baby is fine. But she doesn't think she is in labor, the thing is she is... She tells me her mom think she is and stuff... so I run to her house and get her ready by helping her in the shower.

We leave to the hospital and we go to the labor section. The nurse checks her out and at first thinks she's not going into labor, later on her doctor Mr Tigert checks on her, and pinches her inside and says that should get things started and asked us to come back in two hours. We walk around in the mall beside the Credit Valley Hospital, she was feeling the contractions more and more... We come back and when her doctor checks her again, part of her water breaks!!! He confirms that the baby will be coming.

It was walking and walking and Ana was going through a bit of pain by 8 pm we where in another room. The delivery room which is basically a sort of private room for delivery was cozy. Her family came by to visit and it was my turn to call mines to let them know what was happening.

So the night came and after more and more walking and then she was on the bed, she asked for the epidural. (She was 4 cm dilated) I wasn't crazy of it for some reason, but that helped her ALOT. When they applied it she felt allot better and NO pain. After a little while when I was with her, there was a monitor where we would see the heart rate of the baby and also Ana's contractions. The heart rate was normally around 175, all of a sudden it dropped to 121, as this happened I asked the doctor if that was normal, she mentioned that it was one of the side effects of the epidural, and that I should worry unless it goes under 100. Right after she said that I see it dropping to 80... 70... my eyes where freaking out! I told the nurse this and she turned Ana to her left side and put on an Oxygen mask. The heart rate came back up right away!

So it was getting late and the nurse said to keep on giving her some water. Her cousin Natalie and I where there taking turns (sort of) but around 3 AM I passed out beside her bed on this sort of seat that turned into a mini bed... (I was up since 7h30 that day on a Sunday) Ana kept on saying that I slept while she was getting ready for the delivery, I guess I did when it was important. At 4 AM she was 10 cm dilated, it was TIME! I could see her little hairy head! We moved stuff around, her cousin grabbed the camera and the nurse helped her with her first push. The nurse called her doctor who was in. He came in and helped her push again. After four sets of pushes the baby was out!!! The rest is unexplainable the feeling you get. All I know is for me I looked at Ana as my hero and the baby the most precious living thing in this world!She was 7.9 Pounds and 49 CM long.

After Three Weeks she takes a photo shoot!

Week-End in Montreal!

2007-08-21T11:30:00.000-04:00

From Living in Mississauga and traveling to Montreal = 576 km – about 5 hours 59 mins. (If of course we do respect the speed limit.) Friday came and we had to go! Left late as per it was not easy leaving, long trip, long drive, I cannot count the many times I had driven back and forth Montreal Toronto. We where tired from the week and now this long trip! OK Enough with the ranting...

Friday:

Drive... drive and drive...

Saturday:
Spend a bit of time with my mom and sister.

Sunday: Samaneh's and Eddy's wedding. Beautiful long-time couple. It was a great wedging! Lovely people and lot's of fun. Drinking as well. I wish these two ALL THE BEST!

Link to pictures!

Monday:

Drove back to Mississauga...

Pictures are comming up soon!!!

Si vamos a ser padres!

2007-08-17T12:13:00.001-04:00

Cuando recibimos la noticia que íbamos a ser padres, era algo que uno no no se esperaba.

Si tienen preguntas como si era planeado? La respuesta es no. Como paso? Pues de la forma que la naturaleza lo hizo! Pues ahí fue!

El nacimiento esta para es para el 27 de Enero del 2008. No sabemos lo que va a pasar cuando nasca el bebe, no sabemos si va ser hombre o mujer. Lo que si sabemos es que vamos a luchar por el bebe. Que nada le falte, como todos los padres han echo, como nuestros padre hicieron para nosotros. Estamos listos? Aunque uno se prepare lo mas que uno pueda, uno nunca esta listo por lo que va a pasar, pero vamos a estar lo mas preparados posible!

Bueno un saludo a todos!

This is the NEWS

2007-08-16T12:54:00.000-04:00

So to get this blog going I am going to share something with you guys.

Sharing the news with others is something that I have been looking forward do. It's not easy but it has been great experiencing these things! So here we go!

This video was taken at the Credit Valley Hospital.

Officiellement Deux Mois!!!

2007-08-15T13:48:00.000-04:00

Bonjour tout le monde! Aujourd'hui je vous écris pour vous tenir informées de mes affaires au Canada! Je suis à Mississauga en Ontario et c’est sympa ici. Le monde est différent et les coutumes aussi!!! Je suis arrivée de Paris à Montréal le 15 Juin 2007. J’ai eu la chance d’avoir rencontré un pote de MR (François) à l’aéroport de Roissy Charles de Gaulles, il ma offert de m'aider à voyager avec des bagages pour que les coups soient beaucoup moins cher. Il m'a BIEN AIDÉ. J’ai eu la chance d’avoir l’aide des potes de Gabriel et de Yan (Isabelle, Annie, Laurie, Patrice) à me ramener à l’aéroport! Encore MERCI! Le vol de Air Transat était tranquille, mais MAN que les sièges son petits !!!

Alors le but de mon voyage est que j’étais désespéré d’aller voir ma chérie. J’arrive a l’aéroport, mon père viens me chercher dans sa mini van et je rentre mes bagages et aller hop a la maison ! Arrivée je commence déjà a faire mes bagages pour repartir chez ma chérie le lendemain. Bon la famille est arrivée a la maison, barbecue, le sommeil me touche grâce au jet-lag. Je parle avec ma chérie, j’avais tellement hâte de la voir après le news que j’avais appris à Paris. (A suivre…)

2007-08-14T13:53:00.000-04:00

Winston Churchill:

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

My first POST!!!

2007-08-14T12:01:00.000-04:00

This is to summarize how I got here! But it will also tell you why. Well this post is the first of many that I shall post. And I will keep it short and sweet. Et bien sur il y aura du Français! Y un poco de español!

I went from living in Montreal, Canada to Paris, France and now living in Mississauga, Ontario. My moves implicated lot's of changes in my life. And some of these moves where wise and not at the same time. Why did I move to Paris? Curiosity I may say, but many other reasons as well. Starting a new life perhaps?

But there is one thing that didn't change, and it's my feelings, my heart, my thoughts, everything always brought me back to this one person. The only person that CAN make me mad, that CAN make me happy, that CAN make me want to live more to an extreme and that CAN complete all those empty spaces that where once there:

Ana and Sacha the Paris apartment before going out for a drink at Cafe OZ.

So as for my first post, welcome! You will have more to see in upcoming posts!