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Welcome, Baby A.

  On Baby A's birthday, the c-section surgery went as planned. I walked into the OR around 9:30am and was pushed out around 2 hours later. W was instructed to wait outside while the team was getting me prepared for anesthesia. He then got invited to come in and sat next to me while the team worked on getting Baby A out of me 😂. W was a good DJ and Baby A was born while Taylor Swift's Shake It Off was being played. So...did I feel any pain during this life-changing surgery? No, I didn't. I had a spinal block. I never felt any type of pain during the surgery. Getting the anesthesia injected - however - was the most uncomfortable part of the surgery. There was a lot of pressure. I felt my back being pulled or pushed, or something. It just felt very uncomfortable, not painful, but very uncomfortable. It was also hard to try leaning toward the source of that uncomfortableness. Learning to relax while being uncomfortable was a very hard thing to do. But it was necessary. Once it...
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Damping off

Today's Day 16 since planting of the swiss chards. Earlier this week I said I would give an update on the swiss chard seedlings. So here's an update: I think these seedlings are experiencing what many indoor gardeners have shared online - the "damping off" disease. A quick internet search shows this condition is very common among indoor seedlings. I'm almost positive it's because I gave them too much water on Day 10. Since most pellets were still moist when I gently squeezed them, I probably shouldn't have watered them that day. I watered only because a few pellets had some light brown spots and were dry on the surface. I probably should have only watered those dry pellets, not the entire tray. Anyway, what's done has been done. I also know plants are resilient and want to live! So I hope some seedlings will survive.
Here's what they look like today:

Day 16. I hope some of them will "get up" again tomorrow.
 "Damping off" was first noticed from on Day 14 on a rather chilly evening. However, I noticed some have "gotten back up" when the next morning's sunshine hit through the window. So, I'm hoping this trend follows.
Day 16. Finally spotted some seedlings with tiny growth of true leaves!!



Some pictures from between the last update and today.
Day 14 since planting. Skinny seedlings. Funny how some seeds decided to pop up today! Two weeks since the seeds were planted! I'm not sure if the new pop-ups are just late bloomers or maybe the watering on Day 10 helped them.
Day 14 since planting.
Day 15 since planting. I rotate the tray daily, some leggy seedlings just turn and go for all kinds of weird direction to get their beloved sunlight.😐

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