Before we get to what we’re going to get to today, I just need to say WOW. That, and WOW again. You clicked BuenoBaby to number twenty-six!!! on Babble’s 2009 Top Mommy Blogger list! SQUEEEEL!!! Thank you for your votes and thank you for continuing to vote. I don’t know what else to say except if you ever need anything, say like help changing a tire or a Saturday night babysitter, well…I could probably do a Google search and point you to someone who does those things.
Because You. Are. That. AWESOME.
I wish you were here with me now so I could give you a big awkward hug, but since you’re not, I’m sending you an Internet hug…HUGS! You did make me feel all velvety inside.
O.K., now on with the business of over-sharing. Since I assume you stopped by today to read about things like Whitney’s raw upper-lip (caused by an endless river of snot this weekend), or how I was so high on post-delivery narcotics that I forgot to poop for eight days and had to go to the emergency room, I‘ll get right down to it.
Four years ago today, over my OB’s lunch hour, I delivered Whitney. I’m not going to tell you it was a hard labor, or that I threw beverages or small pieces of furniture at Ben. And I didn’t scream like a boiling lobster as I had, eight years earlier, during my natural childbirth with our first daughter, Lexi.
No, this time around, I had a scheduled induction, and a pain-free four hour labor, wrapped-up with only three minutes of pushing. My pelvis was so numb you could have stuck me in the hip with a hospital fork and I would’ve probably just asked whether or not you knew how long the cafeteria served lunch.
Oooh, wait, there’s a but. And a butt. And a latex glove.
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