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Where did my baby girl go?
By admin | March 6, 2008
Twelve years ago I sat in my living room and watched the most beautiful three week old baby girl fall asleep in her little swing. Meigan was quite a handful. Born Feb 25, 1996 she scared us to death in the hospital with a collapsed lung. She had to stay in the hospital 2 weeks, which seemed like an eternity, but when she came home it was apparent that her little lungs had healed, and were quite healthy!
The swing….you see, after a maddening night of screaming and crying like infants are prone to do, I figured out I could put her in the swing, wind it up, and her little eyelids would get very heavy and she would fall off to sleep as the swing went back and forth..back and forth. It was such a peaceful, quiet time which I tried to enjoy since I knew she would soon awaken and demand to be fed.
She was the prettiest infant ever. I know, all parents say that, but really, she had the most beautiful eyes, and the softest light reddish blonde hair you’ve ever seen. We named her Meigan…poor girl doomed to have her name misspelled all her life, but the spelling was different, as she was different, and nothing but “Meigan” would do.
I remember her first smile. Her whole face would light up, and a big huge toothless grin would come across her face. Everyone commented at how cute her smile was. She was very friendly long before she could say anything. As she grew she bonded with me, and I was so proud that she was a “daddy’s girl.”
When she began to walk, she was a VERY hard to keep up with. Her mom and I would take turns chasing her, one of us would wear out and would say “it’s your turn”. Meigan was nine months old when my mother passed away, and I remember being in the hospital with Meigan visiting my mother during her last days…Meigan would run up and down the halls and was quite rowdy.
Although Meigan was very young, I am glad she got to know my mother if only for a brief time. Meigan got my mom’s red hair, and some of her strong determined personality.
What happened to my baby? This morning she brought me some poetry she had written. It blew me away, my baby girl now a 12 year old young lady who writes poetry…and is a vegetarian…and has opinions on politics, religion, and most anything. Meigan likes oldies, just like her dad. She knows just about anything, plays clarinet, plays basketball, loves animals, has a My Space, loves her friends…
My little baby girl is gone…she’s now a young lady. Soon it will be going off with friends, cars, boyfriends….how I miss that little swing in the living room.