March 31, 2008

• Happy 4th Birthday, Kitty Kat

  Four years ago today, my water broke at midnight. Well, it trickled. John and I tried to be ultra-casual about the whole event. After all, everyone has babies, right? The new-parents class at Methodist Germantown was very low-key and anti-stress, so we took our cue from that and decided to play it cool. He went to work that morning, and around 10 AM, I drove myself to my OB’s clinic to get checked out. Apparently, doctors and their nurses aren’t as laid back as the general public, or the baby books for that matter. Also apparently, waiting ten hours to get checked out after one’s water breaks is really not advisable very much at all. They should have told that to the folks who wrote What to Expect When You’re Expecting, because I thought I had at least two days to let things happen naturally. Silly me. By 10:30, I was stuck with IV’s and pumped with enough labor-inducing medication to make me climb the walls in pain (and climb I did). Six hours later my resolve finally broke, and I begged for an epidural. The helpful anesthesiologist almost got a baby named after him, except that I was having a girl. Thirty minutes later, I was the proud recipient of a six pound, nine ounce baby girl, wrapped in a blue and pink striped hospital blanket and wearing a soft, white knit hat. We named her Anna Kathryn while she lay in my arms.

  

  And so was born the love in our hearts for the most beautiful, precious little bald-headed princess our world has ever seen. She’s no longer bald; her hair is long, with dark-blond ringlets that her mommy brushes daily to rid them of tangles. She’s no longer little either; she is the tallest four-year-old she knows. But she’s still beautiful, still precious, and still loved so very much.

  We had a birthday party on Saturday for Anna Kathryn and several of her closest friends; I’ll post pictures of that as soon as I get a chance.

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