It's A Girl

I was born on July 6, 2007 at 11:07am at Sunnyside Kaiser Hospital. I weighed 7 pounds, 8 ounces and was 20.5 inches long. I was due on June 24th, but decided to make a fashionably late entrance instead. It was awfully comfy in mommy's belly.

The delivery went really well considering I just wanted to stay in the belly. Mom was given some medicine to get things rolling at 7pm on Thursday (7/5). It was supposed to take overnight to start working so mom could get some rest, but instead contractions kicked in full steam at 11pm. Mom labored all night and by 7am was exhausted. She gave in and asked for the epidural. She seemed really happy after that and kept talking about her new best friend, the ane..whatever that big word is. By 10am I was all ready and an hour later I made my entrance into the world.

I was trying to be a good girl, but for some reason everyone kept asking me to cry (I've been trying to make up for it ever since). I guess since I didn't cry loud enough, they thought I had some fluid in my lungs and proceeded to torture me over the next couple days in the nursery. Over the 2 days, they stuck a tube down my throat, gave me disgusting formula that I spitup, stuck an IV in me and then poked me 5 times trying to get it back in when it stopped working, put me under the bili lights for jaundice, and took more blood than I knew my little body had. Anyway, I'm over it now and extremely healthy so fuggedaboutit.

We got to go home on Monday (7/9) and I was finally safe with mommy and daddy to care for me (ha ha). I still had a little bit of jaundice, but it finally cleared up around 6 weeks and I had beautiful white eyes to highlight the blue.

Here are some pictures from my time in the hospital...


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