{"id":343,"date":"2008-08-04T22:45:08","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T04:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=343"},"modified":"2008-08-04T22:45:08","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T04:45:08","slug":"observations-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=343","title":{"rendered":"Observations So Far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a memorable week to say the least, but it&#8217;s also given me the opportunity to reflect a bit. Here are a few things I&#8217;ve observed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When your wife is going in for major abdominal surgery to rescue your struggling unborn son, you don&#8217;t want the C-team doctors and nurses on the job. You want the A-team. We got the A-team at Baylor Irving with Dr. Dominique and nurses Teri and Cari, and we are so thankful for them.<\/li>\n<li>As a corollary, when I&#8217;m on the job, I want to be the A-team. That means I have to work a little harder, pay closer attention, and care more than I have to.<\/li>\n<li>Nothing makes you reevaluate your priorities like wondering whether your wife and child are going to be OK.<\/li>\n<li>My sister&#8217;s job as a labor and delivery nurse has some parallels to my own job that I hadn&#8217;t noticed before. We both have safety as our top concern in an environment that requires  gathering information, analyzing it, and making educated guesses. She cares for a laboring mother with the goal of a safe delivery for mother and baby. Ideally, the delivery will go according to the mother&#8217;s wishes (or birth plan, if you will), but sometimes it doesn&#8217;t work out that way, perhaps changing the planned normal delivery into a c-section. I launch flights and hopes that my plan gets the flight to its planned destination on time, but sometimes the weather or air traffic doesn&#8217;t cooperate, forcing the flight to divert to an alternate airport and then try again later. <\/li>\n<li>Dirty diapers really are more tolerable when they belong to your own kid.<\/li>\n<li>Grandparents really, really, <em>really <\/em>like having grandchildren.<\/li>\n<li>Babies make weird noises.<\/li>\n<li>No matter which parenting philosophy you choose, you can find plenty of people who disagree with it, and you might disagree with it yourself at times. <\/li>\n<li>Sometimes babies make sense, and other times they don&#8217;t, and that&#8217;s OK.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a memorable week to say the least, but it&#8217;s also given me the opportunity to reflect a bit. Here are a few things I&#8217;ve observed: When your wife is going in for major abdominal surgery to rescue your &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=343\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}