Monday, February 2, 2009

4


On the first, Oliver Benedict turned 4! I can't believe it.
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I am daily amazed at my little Oliver bean, We had a party for him on Saturday and I will post more on that later. On his actual b-day we spent a low key day at home. I sat with him at the computer and we went over a bunch of his pictures, I am not very organized, and at that moment I really wished I had a baby book for him. Maybe it will motivate me to get on that, I am only 4 years behind.
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It made me experience that horrible first 3 months of his life all over again. Ollie was born at 29 weeks, the doctors don't know why. I stopped feeling him move one day, went in to get monitored, and the next day had a 3 lb baby! It was a crazy 48 hours.
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B and I were not prepared at all, at the time we were living in a tiny studio off of 23rd (i still miss that place), and were scheduled to move in one month. I had done no packing or cleaning, and had to squeeze it all in, while going to the hospital everyday, and carrying around a huge breast pump everywhere I went. Ollie spent the first 12 weeks of his life in St. Vincents NICU. It was the loneliest and hardest part of my life to date.
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But it was well worth it! Ollie is one of the little miracles of our lives, and he daily shows me that.

1 comments:

Tiffany said...

Wow! I can't even imagine going through that. It's so amazing what we can do when there isn't any other choice. Good job momma! Can't wait to see birthday pictures!