4 posts tagged “baby”
Really?!? Sometimes I feel like this cannot possibly be happening again... For a while there, I got so used to the idea of another pregnancy being "unattainable" that I still find myself incredulous at times... Especially since I cannot feel the baby moving yet, I often feel like I am just getting fatter... Teeheehee... I went to Flower's house today to get back some of the baby/maternity things I had given her, and that was really weird... It was like, "but SHE's having a baby... Oh wait... I am too!" I felt bad taking back anything at all, even though I wasn't taking back everything... But she swears she is ok with it -- happy even... Especially with giving back the crib, since she found a different one that she likes much more... I am happy to have the stuff back, don't get me wrong... But I really did feel awkward "taking" it from someone else who could have used it too... Luckily, she has other friends/family who have given her maternity clothes and who are begging her to stop getting hand-me-downs of baby gear so that they can buy some for her too... Man, I need to just be happy that I have such an understanding friend with other people who can help her out... If she's not upset, I should not feel guilty!!! Later days...
I finally scanned the picture of the ultrasound -- and, of course, doctored it up to replace the boy's real name and erase mine completely... Yeah... I'm that paranoid... Whatevs! Check it out:
The baby's next to the label that says baby -- it's the gray mass, facing left, inside of the black outline (which is my uterus)... When you can see the heart beating and stuff, it helps to see the baby and s/he actually looks like a little gummy bear! Later days...
Even if you don't believe in God, you must believe in something... And regardless of your beliefs, I would like to ask a favor of you... Tracy, a girl I knew in high school (who is still friends with my sister), has a baby in the ICU... She doesn't know exactly what happened, but she was contacted by a neighbor, who luckily knew where she worked, and was told to go home... Why? Her boyfriend had been "shouting at the [2-month-old] baby for a couple of hours and the baby [wouldn't] stop crying"... The neighbor was calling more because she was annoyed by the noise than because she was worried about the baby, which pisses me off all the more... WTF didn't this neighbor call the police?!? But, anyway... After Tracy got home, she didn't think the baby "looked right," and suggested bringing the baby to the doctor... Her boyfriend got angry and said the baby didn't need a doctor... When she insisted, he stormed out and took off... At the doctor's office, one of the nurses noticed that the baby's face was uneven when he cried and that his soft spot was swollen... They sent Tracy and the baby to the ER... At the ER, they did a CAT scan and discovered that the baby had a fractured skull, brain hemoraging, was blind in both eyes, and needed a shunt in his skull to release some of the pressure... They don't know if he will have permanent brain damage, whether he will ever regain his eyesight [since the blindness could, hopefully, be related to the pressure of the brain hemorage], or if he has even fully escaped the possibility of death... Tracy is, understandably, beside herself... She has been with this guy for *years* and he has never shown any violent tendencies, so she is having a hard time wrapping her mind around the idea that he did this to their son -- though she does not deny that it was his doing... She asked [at the ER] if there was any chance this could have happened because he set the baby down too hard on the couch [which has a wooden frame of some sort]... They said that there was no chance... Basically, he had to have hit the baby's head off of something... Tracy has quit her job and moved back in with her mom so she can stay all day in the ICU with her son... I have no concept of how helpless and depressed she must feel... Please pray for Tracy and her son... Thank you... Later days...
So, my debit card is lost and I have been scouring the house for it... No luck so far... However, I do have a happy diversion... Keltia just called to tell me that her son was born this morning! He weighed in at 6 pounds 9 ounces and was 20 inches long... I can't wait to get over there and see him! (And Keltia, too, of course!)... Gotta go shower...
