Inexplicably, an entire year has passed since Michael raced me to Swedish Medical Center for the delivery of Nola Faye Glisson Ortlieb. The final weeks of labor had been made excruciating by a pinched sciatic nerve — weeks in which even taking a few steps would draw stinging tears, and in which a waiting room filled with pregnant women witnessed me sobbing to an obstetric nurse, “GET THIS BABY OUTTA ME!!!!!” (Fortunately, they were spared the pained exhortations to my refusing-to-contract belly: “You’d better be worth all this! You’d better be the BEST BABY EVER!!”) So by the time Swedish cleared a spot for induction, I’d been looking forward to leaping into that hospital bed and squeezing seven-odd pounds of baby through my vadge like. . . well, like a kid looks forward to birthdays.
(She was worth all of it, and it turns out she is the best baby ever.)
Happy birthday, my Itty Bitty Kitty.
Party slideshow after the jump.
5 Comments
Em.
July 21, 2008 at 6:04 pmYAY BABY COVERED IN BIRTHDAY CAKE!
Amanda
July 22, 2008 at 8:00 amYou have beautiful girls! She is a total sweetheart. Happy birthday sweet baby!!!
Heather
July 30, 2008 at 6:03 pmI love your humor. Happy Birthday to your itty bitty.
Celeste Woodhead
July 31, 2008 at 11:13 pmWow! she eats b-day cake the same way I do. Which is exactly how I plan to do it on Sat, my b-day. She was almost a Leo too, Damn!
She really is a cutie patootie! both your girls are and believe me, I would tell you if they were butt ugly.
cardiogirl
September 27, 2009 at 4:22 amI love those photo montages and how each photo pulls out as a larger one. Also love the angles — so artsy!