Saturday, February 25, 2012

Hello World. Introducing...Lê Đoàn Uyên-Vy

Chào Mừng bé Uyên-Vy!

We welcome Uyên-Vy (aka Evie) to our world on February 23, 2012 at 12:25 p.m. She was 6 pounds 15.1 ounces, 20 inches long.  Uyên-Vy was in Special Care Nursery for seven days for observation after a 17-hr non-medicated natural labor.  Bé Vy and momma Trynn are doing well.  Both are spending time to recover.  February 23rd, 2012 marked a milestone day of both Trynn and papa Vịt lives.  It's the day we become parents.

With love,

-Papa Vịt-

Sunday, February 12, 2012

The Magic of Fetal Development

The Stages of Fetal Development (from NHS pregnancy desktop)

Amazing.  This biological mechanism from conception to birth.  It’s a mystery, magic, and divinity.  The genetic structure telling exactly where the nerve cells should go.  The complexity of this is beyond human mathematical comprehension.  For example, the fetus’ brain, the complexity of the folding, where is this intelligence of knowing that a fold could actually hold more information than a linear line.  (Although sometimes, I feel like my brain is a single strand of nothingness.)  How does a woman/mother become a walking immunological cardiovascular system – a mobile system to nurture the child?  That is just magical.  Here’s introducing bé mèo in-utero…