after the dust has begun to settle around here, just a little....i have been able to recount all of the things that have gone so incredibly right with camden, his birthday and everything else....so allow me to log them so that later i can remember....
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*a flawless pregnancy....which let's be honest....is a huge blessing in itself....
*the little guy came exactly one week early, and everyone who knew me pregnant can account for the fact that i pretty much pleaded that he come one week early...my mother and aunt were always late and i just couldn't think about letting myself go past the due date! needless to say i picked that weekend and told cam, very politely, that it would be a dream come true if he came that very weekend...and being that very best of babies he listened to his momma!
*all of our out of town parents got to the delivery in time to see the very first grandbaby (on all sides) make it into the world! they drove from california and from idaho and made it thirty minutes before it was time to push...
*the little guy took a total of 4 pushes (five lovely minutes) to squirm his way into the world...and had a beautifully shaped and beautifully tiny head (another request momma had made)...
*he weighed six pounds and five ounces, yet another agreement camden and i had before his birthday....because i had nightmares about having a ten pounder like myself...yes that's right i was a ten pound baby....
*mom had not one complication after the birth and her epidural worked wonders during....
*the boy came out strutting his daddy's full lips (which mommy secretly prayed he would get)...
*camden worked very hard in the nicu and was only in the hospital for ten days....and in nicu time...that's nothing....
*he is the world's best sleeper and billy and i have been able to truly enjoy the first three months...instead of wanting to pull our hair out and glue our eyelids shut....
*he continues to grow stronger every day...and his heart is working wonders....
*of all the things that could have gone wrong, of all of the things it could have been, it was down syndrome....and that is something that i physically can not blame myself for (because i would if i could, it is just my nature)....his little chromosomally enhanced egg was prepared for me at my birth...and waited patiently my entire life for his time...
*he smiles and laughs and let's be honest that's really all any parent needs to be able to get through pretty much anything....
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with everything that has happened....i am pretty sure someone up there knew exactly what this momma would need to help get her through...and for that i am so thankful.
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*a flawless pregnancy....which let's be honest....is a huge blessing in itself....
*the little guy came exactly one week early, and everyone who knew me pregnant can account for the fact that i pretty much pleaded that he come one week early...my mother and aunt were always late and i just couldn't think about letting myself go past the due date! needless to say i picked that weekend and told cam, very politely, that it would be a dream come true if he came that very weekend...and being that very best of babies he listened to his momma!
*all of our out of town parents got to the delivery in time to see the very first grandbaby (on all sides) make it into the world! they drove from california and from idaho and made it thirty minutes before it was time to push...
*the little guy took a total of 4 pushes (five lovely minutes) to squirm his way into the world...and had a beautifully shaped and beautifully tiny head (another request momma had made)...
*he weighed six pounds and five ounces, yet another agreement camden and i had before his birthday....because i had nightmares about having a ten pounder like myself...yes that's right i was a ten pound baby....
*mom had not one complication after the birth and her epidural worked wonders during....
*the boy came out strutting his daddy's full lips (which mommy secretly prayed he would get)...
*camden worked very hard in the nicu and was only in the hospital for ten days....and in nicu time...that's nothing....
*he is the world's best sleeper and billy and i have been able to truly enjoy the first three months...instead of wanting to pull our hair out and glue our eyelids shut....
*he continues to grow stronger every day...and his heart is working wonders....
*of all the things that could have gone wrong, of all of the things it could have been, it was down syndrome....and that is something that i physically can not blame myself for (because i would if i could, it is just my nature)....his little chromosomally enhanced egg was prepared for me at my birth...and waited patiently my entire life for his time...
*he smiles and laughs and let's be honest that's really all any parent needs to be able to get through pretty much anything....
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with everything that has happened....i am pretty sure someone up there knew exactly what this momma would need to help get her through...and for that i am so thankful.
Beautiful! I always say, "Porter is the best thing I never knew I wanted." When I started to learn about what it takes to carry and keep a baby with a genetic abnormality I just felt so blessed to have one of God's miracles in my arms.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE this! Just LOVE it! You are a fabulous Mommy!
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