Introducing Cambren Louis Northstar Williams
He’s here! Lisa managed to pull through another grueling marathon of labor and delivery, and our third little boy was born at 9:33 PM on May 3, 2007. Welcome to the family, Cambren!
He weighed in at 8 pounds and 14 ounces (just 4 ounces shy of Levi, the proud record holder), and measured 20 inches long. Apparently that’s pretty heavy for the length. The nurse wrote down his stats and promptly dubbed him “The Chunk.”
The photo above was taken when he was already a few days old. He was pretty bruised looking in the face for the first couple days, so we took this one when he was a tad more photogenic. I’m still not clear on their explanation for the bruising, but it was either a bit of squishing trauma from the birth canal, or a choking trauma from the umbilical cord (which got wrapped around his neck very briefly), or an exploding trauma from shooting out quickly at the end (which, believe me, he did).
Lisa, as always, was an amazing warrior through the whole thing. I can’t even begin to relate what she goes through every time we have a baby. The closest point of reference I can think of is the execution scene at the end of Braveheart where they disembowel William Wallace (and on a Tourettes note, I always have to resist a faint impulse to shout “Freeeedommmm!” at the moment that the baby finally comes out). An important difference, though, is that Wallace only had to do it once…
Doesn’t having a baby sound fun?
Special thanks go to our friend Margaret Cochran who was an outstanding birth coach for the second time in a row. She has now helped deliver both Logan and Cambren (and, on a cosmic footnote, Cambren was born on Margaret’s birthday!).
I’ll share a little about Cambren’s name when I have a chance to post again.
1. Annimo wrote:
Awwww, that’s a very peaceful and cherubic pic of “The Chunk”… I’ve never seen it before. Cute…
May 3, July 3, August 7th…. pretty clear pattern, if you ask me :p