Lopez Family blog

For the Friday practice and even during qualifying it seemed that the McLaren’s had the pace to keep up with Ferrari. But once the race got underway you could clearly see that it wasn’t even close and Ferrari went on to win their third one/two victory of the year. The victory assured them of winning the constructors championship (after McLaren’s points deduction) but sadly for them all talk around the paddock and in the media is still about McLaren and their two drivers. With three races to go its getting pretty tight at the top. It will be interesting to see how the drivers do in Fuji next week. The circuit is new to all drivers so that should be a good equilizer.
Alonso and Hamilton are now only two points apart in the drivers championship with Kimi and Massa 13 and 20 points behind respectively:

Hamilton 97
Alonso 95
Kimi 84
Massa 77

In all it was a pretty boring race where the top four all finished like they stared. The only really exciting moment was the start when Alonso and Hamilton were fighting for third spot. Alonso forced Hamilton out ont he first turn and then Hamilton tried to get back in it but was not able to get third place from Alonso.

Hi all,
This will be short because Natalia is just starting to wake up and needs to be fed. So, we have made it through week 1… can’t really believe it. Full of highs and lows, but overall good. I am just hoping that we can settle into some sort of a routine soon (and hopefully it can be one that does not involve being awake all night!)
It’s good to be at home with Natalia, though it is amazing how the day goes by and how little I can have accomplished. I set very small goals (like a shower and one other thing) and then I can feel successful. Natalia is starting to be awake more, which is fun during the day, but not so much at night time. I wonder if I will ever catch up on sleep.
Anyway, check out our new photos (click here) and I will try to write again soon!

 After three days of labor the doctors decided that a C-Section was necessary because of failure to progress.

From my point of view things were pretty much under control most of the way.

The first signs of contractions were on Tuesday night. Lisa woke up because of them but was able to walk them off. The only down side was that they lasted all night.  By Wednesday morning the contractions were gone and Lisa was tired but feeling better. I on the other hand was down with a really nasty cold. Wednesday night the contractions started again as soon as we were ready for bed and this time they continued throughout the day without establishing a real pattern aside from pain. So at night we decided to call it a night early in case the super painful contractions returned that night, and they did but this time they were so bad that Lisa couldn’t take it anymore and so we went to the hospital to have her checked out.

It was a good thing because the laboring had started and things were well on their way. So Friday was all about the drugs. Lisa had some sort of narcotic to help her with the pain, which did it’s job and allowed her to sleep, something
she handn’t done in quite a while. But after a while the contractions upped the ante and we had to call for the good stuff, the epidural.

Around 3 pm the doctor came around to check on things and realized that they were not
moving along and in fact things were starting to go bad.  Lisa was begining to get a fever, progress was not being made by either mom or child so they decided that a C-section was the best thing to do.

Like any good husband would do, I put on the scrubs, sanitized my hands and headed into
the OR with my wife. Lucky for me I was only allowed to stay by her head and  there was a separation between me and the ‘chopping’ so I was not tempted to look, that would have been a bad idea.

A few minutes later Natalia was born, sadly mom was too doped up to really have any
emotions and dad (me) was in too much shock to take it all in…and that’s how it all started.

The whole birth process from labor to delivery to being a parent is probably the scariest most unnerving thing I’ve ever done, but I must also add that all my parenting expertise (2 days, 5 hours) has taught me that being with your child is by far the most wonderful and rewarding feeling you can ever experience.

If you want to see more pictures of  Natalia (aka Mr. Magoo) you can click here.