http://www.alligatorpurse.org/2006/08/15/not-the-middle-child/ My Bag of Tricks about Family, Children, and Grief Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:09:21 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.alligatorpurse.org/2006/08/15/not-the-middle-child/comment-page-1/#comment-51 My Alligator Purse » Blog Archive » Not to be Outdone by his Brother Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:36:27 +0000 http://www.alligatorpurse.org/?p=76#comment-51 [...] Connor felt the need to visit the ER exactly 2 days after I was discharged. But William has had his fair share of “issues” since he was born too. We had to visit the doctor when he was 2 days old since our pediatrician doesn’t have rights at the hospital William was born. They declared him to be jaundiced and since I didn’t know my blood type and the hospital failed to save the cord blood we had to go the following day for a blood draw. I was terrified of this experience after having had Lainy Ann’s blood drawn at 9 months old for an allergy test. It was an awful experience with 20 minutes of screaming while I cried silently inside. I expected the same this time. [...] [...] Connor felt the need to visit the ER exactly 2 days after I was discharged. But William has had his fair share of “issues” since he was born too. We had to visit the doctor when he was 2 days old since our pediatrician doesn’t have rights at the hospital William was born. They declared him to be jaundiced and since I didn’t know my blood type and the hospital failed to save the cord blood we had to go the following day for a blood draw. I was terrified of this experience after having had Lainy Ann’s blood drawn at 9 months old for an allergy test. It was an awful experience with 20 minutes of screaming while I cried silently inside. I expected the same this time. [...]

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