Someone Was in a Big Hurry!
We are very happy to announce the arrival of baby Keegan Nathan Moore. He precipitously arrived on Monday, December 3 at 11.29 am, PST. He was a few days early — the official due date was today, December 8— but he decided he had no time to waste. He came into this world in only 4 hours…TOTAL! Obviously Tizi was happy to have kept the family tradition of quick deliveries… and Matt was happy we made it to the hospital on time.
Keegan was born in a beautiful, warm (70s) sunny San Diego day. He weighted 7.5 lb (appr. 3.3 Kg) and was 20.4 in (52cm) long. His hair are a medium brown and his eyes are gray: so there is some hope he may have light eyes.
Of course we hadn’t picked a final name yet — one of the many things we had planned to complete on the last week before the due date— so his hospital bracelet reads simply: d’Agostino boy. However, going over our name list, we figured that Keegan fit the best. It means:little fiery one, or bright flame. It originated as a last name, but it is now growing in popularity as a first name, ranking 225 among boy baby names in 2006. And no, we didn’t have any particular reasons to choose this name (well, Matt has some Irish blood in his veins): we just liked the name, unusual, but not unheard of and hopefully not too hard to pronounce.
Keegan came into the world at the UCSD Birth Center, a very nice, “natural birth and baby friendly” hospital: beside Dad, a nurse a midwife and our doula, Andrea, attended and helped mom. The birth center has private rooms with full or queen size bed, so mom and dad can stay together. The baby rooms in with the parents. Our room had a pretty view of trees, Seaworld and the San Diego Bay.
Matt has been an incredible support during the whole process and made both the birth and the hospital stay much easier and comfortable on mom and baby, who LOVES sleeping on him.
