Happy feet and other happy body parts

Now that Ben is back at work full-time, free time available for blogging has taken a nose dive. I am trying to learn to type one-handed and take pictures of Susannah with one hand while I hold her in the other....apologies in advance for the plethora of photos taken at a two-foot range. But God forbid I allow the Susannah addicts to go more than a few days without an update! We've all got our junk, or so the song from "Spring Awakening" goes. (Spring Awakening is a great Broadway show...ooh, Broadway shows, something we used to do before May 28.)

At any rate, we've had a string of awesome news this week, all relating to the babe's health. First of all, the renal scan that S had last week showed that both her kidneys were basically draining equally, a good sign, but the urologist was more impressed with her ureters. Apparently she got a closer look at them and they look much better than she was expecting. The next step is a sonogram in July. Piece of cake. Surgery hasn't been ruled out yet but is becoming more and more unlikely. Hooray!

We also learned this week that our dear daughter is finally becoming a fattie! As her parents we couldn't be prouder. In one week she went from 7.8 pounds to 8.7 pounds, "fantastic" in the words of our pediatrician. Maybe it was all that Southern food that mommy ate while she was in Asheville, but who knows. We've put away the dreaded breast pump for a while and are back to nursing full time. We expect her to have thunder thighs in a few weeks, like any good Southerner. Hooray!













Lastly, those feet. Some of you know that four days before Susannah's due date, we were having yet another sonogram to track her kidneys when the doctor decided to inform us of a "new finding"-- club feet. Mind you, you can't do anything about club feet in utero, so why he decided to share that particular hypothesis with us at that particular point in time is a mystery to me. Turns out that the jerk was wrong. We went to see a joint specialist Tuesday who said S's feet were totally normal. She has tibial torsion which will straighten itself out as she begins to walk. The doc said to leave her alone. Music to our ears!

Now we've had two full days at home. No doctor's appointments, no plane rides and no weddings. Just two leaky boobs and one very healthy little baby! All together now....Hooray!





Susannah, before and after we told her about the blog.