Chimi comes to the callroom!

 

My friend Chamie's little baby Promise was due for a follow-up with her pediatrician...and she stopped by, staying at the callroom with her nanny (who also happened to be Chamie's nanny when she was a baby!) while Mommy Chamie attended didactics for the morning...

she's about 6 days old.

                                                                                 She's adorable!

Here comes chimi.

My friend Chamie gave birth last april 5th, 2011.

A little bit of an intro…

She was pregnant during the screening stages at the start of residency, and was seriously thinking about whether or not to go through with residency at all. With hesitation, she approached the chief resident of our program, and told her of the situation.

Apparently, she was the right person to talk to. With a big smile, and a reassuring pat on the back, the chief resident told her not to worry, “It’s not so hard,” she said, “after all, I myself was pregnant two years out of the three in residency…” (She wasn’t the only one who was pregnant, by the way. Our other chief resident is pregnant, with twins. :-))

That put my friend’s fears to rest, and so far, things have been ok. Sure, she’d be sleepier at times than most of us “non-pregnant” folks, and would sometimes be highly emotional over something, but she managed pretty well. Her patients would go home very much improved. As far as work and studies were concerned, nothing was amiss.

So anyway, you have been forewarned… since I have fallen in love with little Chimi (note: we called her pregnant belly chimichanga, after I started calling her that, and the name stuck.), the next few pictures will just be of her and her “fans”.

If this looked like a maternity shot, you're mistaken. I was actually balancing her in between my... er, i was putting her on my chest. (Look Ma, no hands...)

(I love babies because they're really really soft and smell like milk and are so....fuzzy wuzzy, for lack of a better word.

The funny Friday...

"Sprewell" came in to get checked up and visit me a few days ago at the hospital. He's so big now! Before, i used to think it was no sweat to carry him around...now I don' feel the same way.

:-p

He's gotten heavier and naughtier...and way funnier! :-) I'm looking forward to his checkups again.

~ S.

A bittersweet Surprise

June 15th, 2009
Dorm Rooftop
5:20 PM

The past few days have been quite dramatic and life-changing, not just for me, but mostly for someone I know especially well. He just recently became a father and overnight, these heavy responsibilities are going to start getting heavier and heavier on his shoulders.

As much as I want to be there for him, I cannot do so because I am utterly incapable and secondly, I am not sure whether I will be able to help him as much.

I promised him, jokingly (but I meant it), that if I were a big-time doctor, already, his little girl could have anything her little heart ever wished for, and all she had to do was ask me.

I suppose the thrill of fatherhood is still keeping him buoyed up and exhilirated. His little girl is himself in all aspects, down to the mouth and earlobes. It must be something for a man to see his own likeness in his offspring.

This is a bittersweet secret...one that will be known by all anytime soon. For his sake, I hope it will be soon because he's going to need all the help he can get.