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Re: Lovely Newborn Babies ... From: Joanne Bulley, MD (islesannie@yahoo.com) Sun Oct 31 05:59:43 2004 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: art fougner, md: "Re: query from former regular" Previous message: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: OB-GYN-L digest 3403" In reply to: Richard Chudacoff, MD: "Lovely Newborn Babies ..." Since this is signed by Dean Huffman ... I don't think Richard wrote it! It is pretty well observed (I think studies hav been done - but I wouldn't bet on it) - that new parents look at the baby and all those parenting instincts hhit and the baby is "beautiful" and they "fall in love" -- I am not surprised that even with adoption (where you don't have all those hormones floating around) - you get the same thing -- with the long anticipation etc -- the best thing for the family is that immediate falling in love. Many deliveries I have looked at the kid and thought "poor kid - hope it grows out of the uglies"! Ain't Love Great? Joanne At Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Richard Chudacoff, MD wrote: > >.. > >I have what is (at least to me) an interesting story. > >Both of our daughters are adopted. They are both NICU graduates (and since we >did not have a court order for custody for either until they were out of the >NICU, we had to pay a dollar on the dollar for their hospital bills). > >Anyway, Joanne was not willing to even look at Becky until we had the court >order. She did not think she could handle it if she saw the baby and then we >did not get her. A male adoption had fallen through the morning Becky was >born. > >When Becky was discharged to the lawyer, who delivered her to us at home, they >took the usual pictures, which we purchased. > >Joanne thought Becky was the prettiest baby in the workd when she first saw her >in the hospital that Friday morning, and this was confirmed when Becky was >delivered to us at home on Saturday morning. She thought people would stop her >in the mall and tell her how beautiful that baby was. > >About a year later, we looked at the hosptial picture of Becky. Actually she was >kind of ugly -- she looked like a plucked chicken. But we did not see it at the >time. (In all truth, once Becky gained her body fat, which was missing at her >pre-term delivery, she DID look like a lovely new baby, and she is now a lovely >-- most of the time -- teenager.) But our love for the newborn baby that we had >just adopted overwhelmed our objectivety at the time. > >Dean Huffman -- Joanne Bulley, MD Keene, NH, USA "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." President Dwight D. Eisenhower April 16, 1953 Next message: art fougner, md: "Re: query from former regular" Previous message: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: OB-GYN-L digest 3403" In reply to: Richard Chudacoff, MD: "Lovely Newborn Babies ..."

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