my most favorite beautiful baby daughter is going to be a mommy...which means i am going to be a grandma...i am in love with a sour patch kid...he or she is about that size at 9 weeks. we got to see him/her on the 13th...the little heart beat was amazing! i had my sweet girl when i was 23 half my life ago...and she was the 4th child (her name means 4th child) after having 3 boys and being surprised at the births (no ultrasound gender notification) we were excited to finally get a girl... Miss Tessa was on her way... we knew were having a girl because we had so many ultrasounds... they found a tumor on her at 34 weeks gestation...scary stuff! i used to watch St.Judes http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=f87d4c2a71fca210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD on t.v. and wonder how those parents could possibly do it...cancer is hard stuff and especially hard when it involves your child...not only did it involve my child it was my newborn daughter...i was scared and heartbroken...funny how you don't get a choice of doing it or not...i became her warrior and voice...i had a cesarean at 37 weeks...2 days later she had surgery to remove a tumor the size of a grapefruit... it was located on her tailbone but luckily not attached to any organs... the tumor was immature so they monitored it for next 7 months to see if it was malignant or benign...at 7 months the doctors came to the conclusion it was malignant and so she had another surgery to remove another tumor and then a surgery to insert a catheter into her main artery for chemo...my sweet little baby needed chemo at 7 months...she lost all of her beautiful auburn hair...but luckily kept nursing like a champ...she lost no weight...she would go to the hospital for 1 week on 2 weeks off for the next 4 months... it was hard leaving my 3 boys...but i stayed with her the whole time...i never could have left her all alone at the hospital (so many parents did while i was there) i never even wanted to put my sweet baby girl down... the physical therapist told me i was going to delay development if i didn't let her down on the ground...so i pretty much had to let her out of my arms at that point...we finished chemo on February 18 1991...going to the doctors office regularly for the next 5 years...each time i could hardly breath (anxiety) hoping it would not return...so here we are 21 years later... it never returned...and now we know all that yucky chemo didn't leave her with fertility issues (side effect) thankfully since all she has ever wanted is to be a mom since she was a little girl...me on the other hand didn't think i even wanted kids until i had my 1st and became so in love... i would have never stopped if a million wasn't a ridiculous number...i am so in love with my 5 kids that i can't even put it in words...to say i love them is just not enough... there are no words for what i feel when thinking of my babies...my daughter is my best friend... my partner in fun and mischief... she is the reasonable one...who keeps me grounded...she is someone i look up to and who makes me proud...she is example to all those around her...she stands up for what she holds true and i am so lucky to be her mom...because of her i know i can do hard things and miracles are real... and soon i will be a grandma to her sweet baby...how lucky am i...with all that being said she is one of the many reasons i live in gratitude everyday!
family pictures walking at the beach with the baby daughter
wedding day august 5 2010
kissing my sweet girl
laughing...it makes people wonder what you've been up too!
there is a human in there!
9 weeks...sour patch kid!
Janet,
ReplyDeleteYou you sure went through a lot with your daughter as a newborn. I am so thankful that she is fine today and on her way to becoming a mother. Congratulations to you and all of your family as you await the birth of this new life. So precious.
thank you...we are blessed...
DeleteWhat a powerful story. Thank You for sharing! I can just imagine you didn't want to let her our of your sight for a long time! Congrats! And what lovely pictures.
ReplyDeleteWhat a story!! Thanks for sharing your story about your beautiful daughter and may she go on to have as many happy and healthy children as she wants to!
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