really?

I forgot friends?

Silly me.

Thanksgiving

Things I am thankful for... (In no particular order.)

My family - all of them (but I am feeling a bit partial towards my husband and children)
New life - they are so precious when they are new
Surgeons
My life - it really is good
New families - two shall become one (tomorrow)
Naps - sleep when the baby sleeps
Preschool

Things Adaya is thankful for...

Breast milk
Cloth diapers
Mommy
Daddy
Josiah
Grandparents
The swing that Ava lent me
Cute outfits
Snugly blankets

So while I still have a tiny little headache...

I can say it's been much better this past week. I have not even taken any tylonal for a couple of days now. That makes me really happy. (Still on chocolate theropy, Mark. However I think that's just a life long, day to day neccessity.)

Adaya is sleeping well at night. God has been good and given me an easier baby this time around. For most of the last week, she has only gotten up once during the night after she is in bed. Which means she sleep from 10:30-3:30 and 5-8:30 last night.

Recovery for the actual surgery is going well. It's been tougher this time around. I definately feel like it's taken a bigger toll on my body this time. Of course, having two children now means I have to do more and recover less. Also still having more pain in the area that I believe to be where they removed the meckel's diverticulum. But that too is getting better.

I also wanted to mention that my experience with and my attitude towards this c-section has just been completly different from Josiah's. For that, I praise God. Josiah's c-section was heart renching. I was unsupported in so many ways. I actually had to come to terms with it just a few months ago. With Adaya's c-section, I feel like I've been given life. I realize just how much it was a part of God's plan. At the least, the incedental finding of the meckels saved me a lot of future pain, at the most it saved me from a cancer struggle. I'll never know for sure, but I do know that God wanted the surgens to find it. I know that all the prayers that were prayed were answered. So thank you for your prayers.

for grandma

My mom has been pestering me to post some good pics. So here are a couple "one week" photos, unedited, complete with dust spots on my ccd.

Meckel's diverticulum

Also known as "Angie's incedental finding during her c-section." It looked more like a tree fungus than this drawing shows. They took pictures of it. My Dr was going to try and get me a copy. I will share if I get it.

I did a little research, here are some facts that I found:

A Meckel's diverticulum is a common congenital (present from before birth) pouch on the wall of the small bowel. The diverticulum may contain stomach or pancreatic tissue. (Mine had stomach lining tissue.)

A Meckel's diverticulum is a remnant of structures within the fetal digestive tract that were not fully reabsorbed before birth. Approximately 2% of the population has a Meckel's diverticulum, but only a few develop symptoms.

Surgery to remove the diverticulum is recommended if bleeding develops. In rare cases, the segment of small intestine which contains the diverticulum is surgically removed, and the ends of intestine sewn back together. Iron replacement may be needed to correct anemia. If bleeding is significant, blood transfusion may be necessary. (Mine was removed from the wall of the small intestine. They didn't actually remove any of the intestine.)

Presentation in infants younger than 2 years has been considered the classic case. (Or 2+29)

Even more rarely, the Meckel diverticulum may develop benign tumors (eg, leiomyomas, angiomas, neuromas, lipomas) or malignant neoplasms (eg, sarcoma, carcinoid tumor, adenocarcinomas) (I will forever wonder if finding this now will save me from dealing with anything more serious in the future.)

Okay, so I was just looking at all this research info and this fact: The clinical presentation includes abdominal pain in the periumbilical area that radiates to the right lower quadrant. made me remember something. I actually asked the Dr about some pain I was having during my pregnancy. It was located in the lower right abdominal area. The Dr actually did some probing to make sure it wasn't a hernia. We ended up writing it off as round ligiment pain. Usually when one has round lig pain, it presents on both sides. I continued to have the pain off and on through out the pregnancy. Often, I had trouble believing it was just round lig pain. My gut told me something wasn't right. I worried about the pain and wondered if it would be the downfall of my natural birth. Now I wonder, and highly suspect that it was caused by my Meckel's. It is an odd realization to come to today.