overheard

'hi daddy, my name is luci and i have a poop in my diaper.'

it's been an awful week of nights. craziest thing seen: we took someone to c-section for bad heart tones. the baby not only had the cord around its neck, which happens all the time and isn't a big deal... but it was grasping its cord really tightly in its right hand. one of my attendings told me not to get curious and ultrasound myself when i was pregnant with 'lij. she was having fun herself and saw her little boy squeezing his cord, releasing, squeezing... his heart tones would crash, then come back up. you just don't want to know. makes me thankful for guardian angels.

i left 'lij alone for a second and came back to find him wrestling with his toy octopus. he's at the point where he'll be eating, then stop to smile at me. i love his eyes.