A few photos from my visit last month to see my BFF’s son.
First, here’s my sweetie in the little papasan musical chair thingy I got for him.
Here he is again, chilling in the papasan thing, sans music cause he wasn’t feeling that so much.
This is one of his protectors.
This is another protector. There’s a third protector, but she wouldn’t sit still long enough for me to get a pic. 
Every time I talk to my BFF I hang up smiling because she is SO loving being a mom. This is a woman who did NOT want to have kids, OK? She started talking about having her tubes tied wayyyyy back when we were like 20.
I remember not being able to get my head around her not wanting children. Maybe because, at the time, her reasons seemed so superficial: she never wanted to be fat, she couldn’t believe after seeing her body stretch to the maximum that her husband could/would still find her attractive. It never occurred to me that a man could turn his nose up at a woman who has stretch marks from having his kid.
But as I grew older and (somewhat) wiser, I realized that there was nothing wrong with her decision not to have children. Hell, more women need to make that choice and quit having babies they don’t want and mistreating them. I have other friends who don’t want children and, though I believe they would make great moms, choosing not to have kids does not lessen them in my eyes. I don’t spend time trying to convince them that they *should* have kids or tell them that they are selfish for not wanting to have children and other craziness.
In my own baby news, I have a doctor’s appointment on Thursday. Depending on what I hear there about improvements in the other health issues that had cropped up, I may be starting on my next IVF cycle in the next month.
Here’s another photo of my BFF’s son. I can’t wait to get my hands on this baby next weekend!
He was born at 6:22 p.m. today!
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