Archive for the 'Our Eden' Category

How is Eden?

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Did such a small, anonymous little girl ever have so loyal a following?
Thank you all for your notes, your prayers, your good wishes. It does mean a lot.
Eden’s weight is climbing slowly. Her liver enzyme numbers are not radically changed. So the plan is to give it time. Let […]

Abnormal Panic

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Yesterday morning Dr. Button showed me Eden’s digital chart.
I hadn’t wanted to know before. But this was her two-month appointment, she was wide-eyed and adorable, up six ounces, and we were jovial.
Stripes of yellow run horizontally across the chart. The key on the footer shows a yellow bar and an equals […]

Life, Love, Bilikerficklegruben

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

Dr. Button has had to give me bad news twice — first, when he called to tell me I had tested positive for Lyme. Second, when he called to tell me there was a problem with Eden’s blood work.
I’ll let you off the hook — she’s okay. We’re pretty sure it’s over. […]

Vinaigrettes — In a Pea Soup Fog of Sleep Deprivation

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

Much of what the children say to me these days gets all garbled like snow on an old television screen and I have to kind of prick my ears up like antennae to get the signal through.
And sometimes, even then, it’s not getting through.
“Wah,” Eden says. I am struggling to get her skinny chicken […]

I just know there’s a bunny suit in this story

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

Dr. Button and I have a routine.
After years of seeing each other once or twice a year for checkups and chest colds, we have seen each other approximately 19 times in four weeks.
So here’s the routine: the nurse weighs Eden and logs the information into the computer, and then leaves me in […]

Mother’s Instinct

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

It’s so different the first time.
It makes me crazy when people condescend to new parents, using the tired clichés about how they’ll sterilize the pacifier with the first baby and let the dog lick it with the third.
We know. We’ve heard it. New parents are crazy. Haha let’s make […]

Way to have Momma’s back, Schmoopy

Monday, April 20th, 2009

Eden’s lack of weight gain and her bililrubin levels have us seeing a pediatrician every day. It’s the holiday weekend and our doc is not on call. I’m sleep deprived, swimming in mother’s-milk tea (blech!) and generally irritated at the world. So it’s not a good time to be meeting new […]

Now we can all play

Monday, April 20th, 2009

Just stare. She stares back. It’s lovely.

Schmoopy in a Bili

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

Home

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

I feel pretty good. I’m a pro at C-sections at this point, so I know what to do. I was walking within four hours, off the catheter and i.v. just as soon as they would do it for me.
The staples are out, I walk well, I stay ahead of pain with […]