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| FTLComm - Regina - Monday, May 30, 2005 | ||||||
 Saturday during
the noon hour Aurora Cassidy Elizabeth Shire became more than shadows on an
ultrasound image and cried lustily following her "C" section delivery.On Friday her doctor looked over the ultrasound results and noted that the little girl was not growing and that meant the placenta was no longer providing her with sufficient nourishment and it was time to be born. The picture on the right was taken when she was an hour old and the one above about four hours old but the image below as only minutes after delivery with |
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 Dad Matthew and mother Dawn. Aurora was about a month ahead of term and was immediately put into the infant intensive care unit which really resembles a computer lab with odd equipment. She weighed 1.758 Kg. but is sixteen and seven eighths inches long. Monitoring equipment was connected to her and an intravenous tube which was removed today as she began feeding yesterday. She has regained her birth weight. |
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 This monitor near the Plexiglas box that keeps her warm reports her
vital signs and this is how it looked at about four hours after delivery.Two of her great grandfathers were there in the Regina General Hospital, one receiving some treatment and the other waiting with her paternal grandfather and maternal grandmother in the waiting room. One aunt, one great aunt and close family friends made up the cheering section when Matthew came in to break the news that it was a "girl." All I can tell you is that after having had three sons this was amazing good fortune |
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 for me. Now I remembered the incredible change in my life and remarkable alteration in attitude when my first son was born and I was surprised to notice that this milestone of becoming a grandfather brought with it another set of feelings and a definite change in the way I look at things. The perspective of life changes with awareness and being there and scrubbing up to go in and visit the first member of the next generation was a profound event. Yesterday my father, who had moved on to being a great grandfather scrubbed up to pay her a close up visit. I came home Saturday night but the updates have continued to come right along including the |
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 pictures here. The image of Aurora with her mother was taken yesterday but these last two were taken this afternoon just before the IV was removed. Today's report included weight and a summary of the good news from the doctor but after the removal of the IV she was placed on her stomach for a change and she immediately flipped over, on her own, back unto her back. Sunday evening I discussed her graduation from high school and possible direction through college and grad school with her great aunt and I don't think I getting a bit ahead of things. This is really the best week since 1968 when when my wife and I began life together. |
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