On Schedule, Doing Well, and Named
Author: Brian Slezak | Category: Announcements, Mom UpdateWell,
Just an update to Baby Slezak and Mom. Everything is going to plan, even with the mediocre complications. Pania’s diabetes is under control now, due to her diet and timing of medication. Baby’s size is within nominal ranges, and he is passing all the NST and bio-physical tests. He also dropped last week, and moved into position for birth.
Mom is pretty well fried at this point, but even that is pretty normal for a mother in the seventh month of pregnancy. :-/ She is ready to be done with all of this! She’s ready to resume normal eating habits and be holding her little boy.
Also, in other and important news, we settled on a name for the little guy. Paul Michael Slezak. For a naming process, I’m not sure what conventional is, but I think we were fairly unconventional. We decided on the middle name right out of the gate, and kept playing with first names. We both wanted the first name to be simple to speak, and Pania wanted one that sounded the same or very similar in both English and Indonesian pronunciations. We simply lived with “Paul” for a while until nothing better came along. 
It is a good name.
I will put up another ultrasound this week and give you another look at him. 7 more weeks to go, and mom is counting the hours.