Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Your Daily Sadie
One year ago today, Sadie put on her last ultrasound show for us. It was a doozy. She’d been beating the crap out of the placenta, was getting low on fluid, and so Lori the ultrasound tech sent us for monitoring upstairs. Then they sent us to the hospital with the fateful command not to eat lunch on the way. The hospital did some monitoring and admitted us to a delivery room.
Sadie proceeded to be stubborn. It was fun.
On the 29th, she was clearly not coming out the traditional way, but had trashed the place enough to get herself evicted. This was the first picture I took. She was getting her temperature taken after we moved from the operating room to the initial recovery room.
Yep, it’ll be a year tomorrow. Time flies! And we’ve certainly been having fun. I think that’s one part nobody tells you about; how much fun they are, especially at certain ages.
The “daily Sadie” thing has to end sometime. A year seems logical. No doubt there will still be regular pictures posted, since I am mad about taking them, though we’ve slacked lately. And Deb’s computer remains not setup, making it hard to download them off the camera.
I have no idea what I’ll do with the next one, but I’ll try to avoid the typical “second one gets far fewer pictures taken” syndrome. Daily Valerie just doesn’t have the same ring to it. Plus she’ll have the distinction that Sadie will probably worm her way into half the pictures of her sister, so it’ll pictures of them more than her. We’ll see.
At least this time we shouldn’t end up spending an extra day in the hospital, as the eviction will be planned ahead. The peri says she looks “fabulous” based on the first ultrasound. No quibbles as with Sadie, who had a measurement that was off that they ended up watching closely. It even looked for a while like she would need to be ultrasounded after she was born, to check on the innards. We also learned from the peri, who had examined the hospital chart, that it was strictly about low fluid, and there was never preeclampsia. Nobody ever told us that definitively.
Anyway… look for plenty of pictures, certainly, but not the predictable, daily pictures after her birthday tomorrow.