hospital

About two weeks ago Sophie went back to CHOP to get her lip corrected. As you’ll recall, back in August Sophie was jumping on the bed, fell off, landed on the bedside table, and knocked her two front teeth back up into her gums, and split her lip. They stitched the lip in the emergency room, but didn’t do the best job, so we had it corrected by the plastic surgery department.

She was pretty nervous about the procedure because we had a lot of time to talk and think about it – as opposed to the last time when it was a mad dash to the ER. But she did great! She was put under and the surgery took about 30 minutes. When she woke up she had about a dozen stitches in her upper lip and it was pretty swollen.

She was a pretty sad girl when she first woke up…

But Dave took her for some ice cream right away! 

And now it’s almost back to normal. You can see that one of her front teeth came back all the way, but the other one has only partly emerged. Now that her lip isn’t so fat you can see the teeth better. But we have a few years before they both fall out and are replaced by (hopefully very straight) grown up teeth. 

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We are thrilled to introduce Lauren Isabelle, born on December 28th at 5:50am. She weighed 6lbs 15ozs and was 19 inches long. The delivery was such a good experience, and both her and I did so well we got to come home from the hospital a day early! Big sister Sophie has been loving on her all week, just like everyone else who meets her.

About 5 minutes after arriving in the world. We were lucky enough to get to spend about an hour with her before the staff took her. She was wide awake the whole time, and both Dave and I got in some good baby gazing time. 

Sophie wanted to inspect every part of her right away. Her belly button and umbilical cord were particularly interesting to her. She also loved her little fingers and toes. 

Two very happy grandmas. 

Pop Pop

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Well, the song is right: No more monkeys jumping on the bed. On Monday night Sophie was jumping on our bed, fell off, and hit her mouth on the bed side table. Her lip was split and her front teeth were missing, so I rushed her to the emergency room. After several x-rays they discovered that her teeth had actually been knocked back up into her gums. She also needed to get 3 stitched in her lip. She was a real trooper through the whole ordeal.  She was out of school all this week and is healing well. Her lip is much better, swelling is going down, and it looks like she won’t need any oral surgery – apparently it’s very likely that the teeth will come back down on their own. 

Here she is post-stitches. She just woke up from being sedated. 

She was soon on the road to recovery with lots, and lots, of popsicles
 And some good friends stopped by to cheer her up – Claire & Liora
And by Sunday her lip was much better and swelling has gone down tremendously. She won’t have front teeth for a while, but now that she’s learned how to eat (“open wide and put it in the side”), she’s a happy girl again!
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