`Hunter Leroy Hintz`

`Born 5:43 PM, 30 December 1997`

`Weight: 7lbs 8ozs, Size: 20 1/4 inches`

Hunter was born by ceaserian section, as his umbilical cord was wrapped around his body 3 times-neck, body and leg. Samantha labored for about 12 hours, but everytime she had a contraction Hunter's heart rate slowed down-the bigger the contraction, the more the slowdown. Hence, the C-section.

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These pictures are at the hospital nurserey, about 1 hour after birth.

These are at 2 days old, shortly after arriving home. The second picture is Hunter and Cassidy, our cat, having thier first pow-wow.

With Dad, on 3 Jan., 1998.

An early smile, on 4 Jan., 1998.

10 and 11 Jan., respectively. In the 2nd picture Mom and Hunter were dancing to the sounds of the Grateful Dead's American Beauty.

This is just a quick page I threw together to post some pix... These pictures are image captures from our Sony Handycam camcorder, using Apple Video Player on a Mac 6500/250-no editing was performed other than to change the format from pict to jpg.