See, your other kid turned out alright. Don’t panic with this one will you!!
**Beeeyootiful baby!!! **And I love the picture of big brother giving the little one the bottle. Great looking kids. Congrats to all of you!!!
Congratulations. The second cutest baby I’ve ever seen… 
What a cutie! Sure doesn’t want to open those eyes! I deduced from the headers of the pics that this is a boy-child. I know you’ve been under some stress lately so we’ll forgive you, but NEXT time, try to include that info in the birth announcement! 
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Best wishes to your adorable family from all us geeks!
Ooooooooh. You guys do nice work. This is a very lovely baby.
Have you purchased a lifetime membership for him on The Straight Dope?
I sense it’s time for us to come up with some member names.
- Nursing Carmen
- Baby Doper.
- The Next Adams.
Cartooniverse
Congratulations! I hope the fracture isn’t putting too much of a damper on the baby-holding (and how’s your wife, anyhow, what with the bleeding?). I must say, you’re both canny people to have planned to have one child old enough to change the baby’s diapers!
Picture number two indicates that the little red bundle of frowniness may still get cute Kidding, kidding!
Congratulations on the baby, ouchies on the arm.
Spanish spell for the arm:
Cura, sana, mal de rana,
si no te curas hoy
te curarás mañana.
(Lit: heal, heal, froggy booboo; if you don’t heal today, you will heal tomorrow)
TMI
Oh fer crappity crappity crap. It’s been a hella long week. Sunday morning at 3am she starting bleeding again. Why the fuck does it always have to happen at 3am? Anyhoo, pack up the newbee (Luckily older brother was having a sleepover) and visit the hospital ER again. New ER score. Me: 1. Wife: 2. I knew it was a bad month when I showed the new nurse where radiology was. She didn’t know yet. After a long day of waiting, bleeding, changing plans every hour or so only to wait 2 hours for a plan to come together, only to have those plans changed.
Nurse: Here, drink this contrast.
NurseCarmenWife: Um, no.
Nurse: ??
NCW: I can’t take anything orally, I’m going to have surgery.
Nurse: Ohh, we’re going to have to change plans.
etc. etc. etc. all day long.
They finally settled on snaking something up her femoral artery and blocking the supply of blood to her uterus. We won’t know if the bleeding stopped until she gets a hemoglobin test done, and they can’t do that until 6 hours after the last bag of blood has been put in (the fifth was last night). The real fun happened when the girl with a hemogloban level of 6, who’d been bleeding fo the better part of a day, who had no color to her lips, announced to the doc that she felt like she was wetting herself, only that couldn’t be, since she had a foley in. It’s neat on TV when the doctors peel back the sheets to reveal a crimson pool, then start scrambling around saying things like “stat” and “Hematoma” while applying a whole bunch of pressure to a wound. Not so much in real life. Her femoral artery decided to pop open where the cath was in. Despite my handle, I don’t read medical literature. But I do read people pretty well, and I can tell you that the two docs and several nurses were freaking out a bit, and waiting for her to crash.
As I was writing this I have received good news and bad news. The good news, is that her hemo level is up to 10! The bad news is that her dad is driving up from Florida, and he’s going to stay at our house. GAAAAHHHHH just when I thought things couldn’t get any worse. Oh well. It’ll be nice to have someone around the house that can lift more than 10 pounds and mow a lawn. Do I have to acknowledge his presence?
Nurse, good to see you around here, hope everything gets well. Now, are you going to be back into the football stuff? There’s a thread around here somewhere.
Two words: Prescription Drugs for all males of the house over 21.
What would be a bad hemoglobin level? Is 6 Bad or Really Bad? What is normal?
Whoa! that first picture is HUGE! 2006? More like the last scene of 2001!
I love looking at pictures of newborns! My younger son hasn’t been one for 2 years. Two boys is fun. You’ll love that. Your sons are very cute.
I hope your wife is better soon.
What a darling little schnookers! Congratulations! Hope Mom is recovering now–scary.
Just tuck this week away. Use it. To your advantage. Wait about a year, then nuzzle your mouth softly against that little scar where her femoral artery is and say, " honey, NurseCarmen loooooooooooves your femoral artery ! "
She’ll either giggle or kill you with her thighs scissoring together like garden shears. Either way, a good time.
Good read on the staff. Few things worse than thinking your patient may go by exhanguination. I am grateful they got a handle on it ( ahem ). I’ll think high blood count, iron-rich, excellent fibrin levels thoughts for her.
All best wishes and prayers,
Cartooniverse
Okay, the answer I was looking for was, “Oh, she’s just fine now! It was a minor thing and they fixed her right up.”
Given that whoever’s directing this mess isn’t following my script, I’ll keep my fingers crossed for a good final hemoglobin test and a full and rapid recovery. As for you and your father-in-law, well, you just keep him busy mowing the lawn and fetching and carrying for his daughter. Good luck to all of you!
Talk about roller coasters…
Congrats on the bippin, and my prayers for the mommy and her hemoglobin levels. And all other affected parties, hereinafter referred to as the CarmenClan.
How does big brother regard all this excitement? Shortly after his little sister arrived, Shodan Jr. was asking fretfully, “When’s that baby going to go home?”
Regards,
Shodan
Hemoglobin is through the roof, cracking 11 this morning! Today, I get my wife back. And last night, the little guy only woke up one-and-a-half times (He didn’t finish the bottle the first time, so I knew he’d be waking up in a half hour wanting to finish it, so I was prepared). It’s a good day today. Thanks for all the thoughts, wishes, ritual sacrifices, and cashiers’ checks (Their in the mail, right?) folks. It looks like I’m out of these thick dark woods, and into the normal, thick dangerous forest of normal everyday infant and 6 year old care.
Big brother wants to keep the newbie. I guess that is one advantage of waiting 6 years…
YAY !!!
Great news. Check’s in the mail, of course.
It’s good to hear that things are settling down. Now you just need to keep your father-in-law busy with the kids and you’ll be all set!
Actual quote from our three-and-a-half-year-old (who’d eagerly anticipated having a baby sister): “Who’s going to be her mommy and daddy?”