Tallulah's Notebook: Ringing in the New Year

We brought in 2014 with the R's. They live in Massachusetts so we road tripped down south! They did not have a lick of snow on the ground. It was like we were in Mexico.

Last NYE, I was very pregnant and G and I spent the day in the hospital running tests. Sam was measuring quite large so we visited the high risk pregnancy center in the hospital. We were told that Sam could be as large as 14lbs. I thought the doctors had lost their damn minds and I laughed them off. I assumed Sam would be toward the 9lb. range. Due to his size, we made a game plan with our ob-gyn in the early evening hours of New Year's Eve. We chatted in the waiting room of the office as the nurses and the admin had left early to celebrate the new year. Our ob was dressed in a pretty silk top. I remember looking at her with amusement, as she was dressed and ready to go out on the town. It was also one of those moments when you realize that life goes on, no matter what you have on your own plate. Here she was discussing the end of my pregnancy and the delivery of my first child, the fears of his large measurements for his own life and my own. And then she went out to have a glass of champagne with her loved ones.

It was decided that we would induce Sam on January 7, my due date, if he didn't make his appearance prior to that date. G and I went back to our apartment and drank sparkling cider as we welcomed the year that our lives would change forever more. More on Sam's story to come.

Needless to say, we were looking forward to a new year celebration that was a bit more low key and filled with laughs. Reuniting Sam and little M was just what we needed.