I’ve been playing the role of Annoying Daughter-In-Law the last week or so, asking for copies of the pictures MrZ’s parents took the day NikkiZ was born. Grandpa (MrZ’s Dad) burned me a CD yesterday and I finally got to go through the pictures tonight. It has been very surreal. Part of me feels very much like those pictures represent nothing more than a drunken memory. A VERY DRUNKEN MEMORY. (Ahhh…precious morphine…how I miss you so.) Another part of me feels every emotion fresh - like I am there, reliving it all over again.
It would be neat if every member of the family could blog their memories of the day NikkiZ was born before they forget it. Since I’m the only one with a blog, I’ll try to put together the story from their point of view, as I have heard them tell it. (Feel free, any of you, to correct me in an email and I’ll change it). We had spent the night at the hospital, scheduled to be induced around 6am. Grandma and Grandpa were going to come by the hospital to see how we were doing on their way to work. They called at one point to say they were on their way and I think I had been given the Pitocin drip and was feeling contractions in a MAJOR DAMN WAY. Of course, from the time we spoke to them and the time they got to the hospital, things changed dramatically.
Added by MrZ in the comments: That picture of me standing in the doorway was taken at the moment that i was informing my parents that we were having to have an emergency c-section. This was about 10 minutes after we found out that we were going to have to have the c-section and just after the mad dash down the hallway. I was making sure that everyone that had come by to visit that morning knew where we were and what was going on. That look in my eye is definitely one of fear… this was less than an hour after the pitocin drip was started and I don’t think i was mentally prepared.
When they got to the hospital, I believe they were told at the nurse’s station that I was in the Operating Room (dun dun DUNNNNN!). At that point I had been over 24 hours without sleep, so I don’t remember any of that. I think someone directed them to the O.R. area where they were trying not to panic since they had no idea what was going on to require my presence in the Operating Room. I think that a nurse told MrZ they were out there so before the surgery he ran out to tell them what was going on. I will be forever grateful that Grandpa (I think that’s who took it) had the presence of mind to take this picture. Everything happened so fast we have ZERO documentation of the birth of NikkiZ. This is the closest we came.
After the surgery, MrZ was allowed to follow NikkiZ to the nursery to be bathed and introduced to the world. At this point I was drunkedly talking the ear off of the nurses in the recovery room. When I get nervous? I talk. A LOT. MrZ and his family are lucky they could just enjoy the moment without my annoying talking. Since I wasn’t there for any of this, these pictures were very intoxicating to look at. I just can’t believe what a day that was and I am glad things worked out that MrZ’s parents were there and could photograph moments like this. If it hadn’t been timed just like that, we would have nothing documented.
Thank you Grandma and Grandpa - for capturing the events I could not be a part of, and for preserving this moment, of Daddy and Baby, for NikkiZ to one day be able to enjoy.
Soooo Sweet!
I second Betsy’s comment - Sooo sweet!
Though my trip to the Operating Room with Tyler was planned out several days before it occurred, the whole adventure still seemed quite surreal. I will be forever thankful to the wonderful doctor who accompanied us to the OR room, for he took pity on two very nervous soon-to-be new parents, and used our camera to take pictures of Tyler’s delivery. Though I wasn’t able to witness it myself (those damn sheets they drape in front of you really screws up the view, LoL), because of him, they are moments I can go back and relive.
*sigh* I must stop this comment before I wind up including the link to the video I made for him, LoL.
Love the pics!
This story brought tears to my eyes. Sniff.
That picture of me standing in the doorway was taken at the moment that i was informing my parents that we were having to have an emergency c-section. This was about 10 minutes after we found out that we were going to have to have the c-section and just after the mad dash down the hallway. I was making sure that everyone that had come by to visit that morning knew where we were and what was going on. That look in my eye is definitely one of fear… this was less than an hour after the pitocin drip was started and I don’t think i was mentally prepared.
Thank God for parents, right? They’ve been through this enough times to know what to anticipate. I’m sure they knew “Let’s stop and take pictures!” was the FARTHEST thing from y’all’s minds at the time.
Why is it that these birth stories always put tears in my eyes? Great pictures!
I noticed from your really rad blogger templates that you just copied and pasted the word “testing” over and over again to create placeholder text. Web developers (like me!) and graphic artists often use placeholder text called lorem ipsum. It’s garbaldy-goop Greek from Cicero’s ‘The Extremes of Good and Evil.” We use it because it’s an accurate representation of how text generally varies in paragraphs. You’ll see it commonly used in templates of all kinds. There are even lorem ipsum generators online (http://www.lipsum.com/). You just specify how many paragraphs or words to generate and you’ve got instant placeholder text.
Also, you may already know this but you can use a CSS property called float to make text wrap around images in a paragraph, instead of above and below the text only. For example, to position an image on the right, the code will look something like:
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To position the piccie on the left, the code will look something like:
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You can also create a rule in your style sheet and reference it. The rule might look like:
.fun_rule {
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}
And the code might look like:
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Just a few things to make your life easier. Hope they help!
Eeks! I used character entities so you could see the actual code, and it looked fine in the preview, but not so much when I checked just now. I’ll e-mail you the code. Sorry!
That definetly brought a tear to my eyes. How sweet.
thats such a lovely pic of dad and daughter!