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I am 25% done with full-time work and Baby is 33% done with so much childcare for this week (my mom is coming to watch her on Thursday). And then this weekend we have a wonderful trip to the beach planned, just the three of us, for four days, which I am just thrilled about. I do continue feeling uneasy about being so long away from Baby this week, and she didn’t have the best day of her life today (it seems she ended up passing out on a couch after spending most of the morning insisting on being held) but I guess in the grand scheme of things this issue is a small one. We’ll survive. There are worse things.

Today I learned my sister-in-law’s pregnancy was molar and she will have to undergo a D & C under general anesthesia, of which she has a phobia (one I understand, having awoken during general anesthesia myself, unable to communicate with the doctor operating) and may have to wait up to a year to try again in the best case scenario, the worst one being a hysterectomy. I sent a note but I wasn’t sure what to say; they themselves are insisting that since there was no actual “baby” involved, it wasn’t so much of a loss. But I know they had a dream of a baby nonetheless. And there’s the risk to the mother’s health, not inconsiderable.