This afternoon we took a family walk to a nearby park. We try to do this several times a week as it gives AC and me a chance to talk while Sam rides quietly strapped to AC’s chest. As we strolled around the periphery of the park, knee-deep in some weighty discussion, I misjudged a […]
Sam’s birth and the subsequent drama, largely detailed at Choicywhiteboy.com, taught me a lesson that apparently I am still not done learning in my 35 years: things don’t always go the way I hope, plan, or expect. I had an easy, trouble-free pregnancy and yet it turned out that my baby was IUGR (Intrauterine growth […]
The entire atmosphere of the room changes. Nurses and support staff come out of nowhere. Two large bubble lights in the ceiling come on. Someone adjusts the bed so that I am sitting up, and there is a birth platform below me. In all the commotion I am dimly aware of a small cart being […]