BABY TALK©
The day my daughter Amber was born,
seventeen years ago, was a proud and happy moment for Jimmy and me. Like all new parents we were so proud we
could burst, and Jimmy hovered anxiously over my bed all that first day as I
held Amber in my arms.
Unlike today when a mother and child
are typically out of the hospital in twenty-four to forty-eight hours, Amber
and I spent four days there before being discharged. Jimmy spent as much time with us as he
possibly could.
Every morning Jimmy teased me about my
thorough examination of Amber as though I thought they would bring her to me
some morning with parts missing -- hands, arms, fingers, toes all present and
accounted for. But on our last morning
in the hospital, as I performed my daily inspection, I was shocked to find a
little envelope tucked into the front of Amber's diaper. What on earth were these people doing?
I gently slid the envelope out of her
diaper, finding that rather than paper, the envelope was made of the softest
satin. I carefully opened the envelope
to find a note that read, "Look in the bottom drawer of your nightstand". I handed Amber to Jimmy, who was looking on
intently, and climbed out of bed to look in the nightstand.
There I found another note which read:
Our lives have changed forever
From now on it will only get better and better
To remind you of this
precious time
A special gift is yours to find
At the bottom of the poem it read,
"When you're finished with this note, ring for the charge nurse."
I pushed the button and almost
immediately the nurse walked in with her little pill tray in hand and handed it
to me with a smile. There was the
familiar assortment of pills, but in the center was a little box wrapped in
pink paper with a shimmering red bow on top.
"What's this?" I asked, to which the nurse just shrugged her
shoulders.
I unwrapped the box and found a pair of
tiny eighteen carat gold baby booties.
Just then Jimmy held out a beautiful
gold charm bracelet. "This is the
single most special occasion in our lives, the birth of our first
daughter. Every year on Amber's birthday
we'll add another gold charm significant of her life at that moment. I love you Deb." And then he held both Amber and I close in
his big warm hug.
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St.
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