Happy Birthday
and many more 
Ah, congratulations from the most beautiful woman here, and in Nevada.
By the way, you being an R.N., madam, a couple of questions.
I had lunch with a friend today, who commented that franksolich has probably the "best documented" life of nearly everyone around; all this black ink on white paper documentation.
My father, besides a hospital administrator, was an R.N.-anesthetist, and my mother, an R.N.
Which means they kept voluminous notes on all of their children, pre-natal and post-natal.
Just lots and lots and lots of notes, and I have them all.
(a) Beginning the preceding November, my father made a notation that the pre-born infant was growing, but not "moving;" not kicking up a fuss, not doing gymnastics, just laying there in peace and quiet. The physicians seemed concerned about this phenomenon, as if it were a bad thing. (It was ultimately decided to let nature take its course.)
Obviously, this growing-but-motionless infant portended something, but I assumed it portended something good; one was just being considerate, not disturbing his mother, who had all these other kids, some of them teenagers, to worry about, without having an infant inside of her gyrating and kicking and hitting and slamming.
Especially since she was well into middle-age at the time.
(b) On this date on March 6 some years ago, my mother made the notation that "labor commenced," and then "came to its natural conclusion" 31 minutes later. But she wrote as if it was a bad thing, not a good thing.
(c) On the same records, she noted that the infant weighed "only" 4 pounds, 3 ounces (but was "fully developed"). If the infant was "fully developed," wouldn't it be better to deliver one half the size of a "normal" infant, rather than a full-sized infant?
Since all came out well, and quickly, why all these comments expressing worry?
For the record, later notes, going clear into childhood, indicate franksolich was perhaps the most laid-back, the most mellow, the most serene and calm, of all the heirs and heiresses.
