Kazem and Daddy. Kazem is leaning in to smile at the camera.
Kazem and Daddy. Kazem is leaning in to smile at the camera.
3 July 2005, nineteen months.
Kazem and Daddy on the beach.
Kazem and our black cat, Muez.
26 March 2005, Sixteen months.
Kazem at the Marrakesh restaurant in Washington, DC.
20 March 2005 - Ren & Jay's Anniversary dinner. The African outfit was made for Kazem by Hidaya & Mubarak's Mother. .
Here he is, walking around on the deck like he's been doing it all his life, rather than just about two weeks.
13 February, 2004, fourteen and a half months.
Kazem finally started walking!! These weren't his VERY FIRST steps, but these were SOME of his first steps! This was the day he really started walking! The previous week, he had done two or three tiny steps between things, but Feb 1 was when he started going across "open space."
1 February, 2004, fourteen months & a week or so
Jay & Kazem during one of our January 2005 snowfalls
22 Jan 2005, almost 14 months
Kazem riding the horse he got for his birthday, wearing the shoes he got from England.
15 January 2004, thirteen and a half months.
Kazem and his friend, Tobbi, on the day of his Islamic birthday, and his first birthday party.
14 November 2004 (1 Shawwal 1426).
Kazem at the Marriott in Pontiac, Michigan
October 10, 2004. Ten months.
Daddy & Kazem in West Virginia.
5 July 2004
Seven months. You can see his two bottom teeth (but not the two he has on top already!). Yes, his shirt is wet. That's from droooooooool!
"Serious" pose at WalMart's Portrait Studio
Kazem with Mom, Dad, and Grandmother
May 2004
Kazem with Mommy
May 2004
There's that elusive smile I've been trying so hard to get on film!!
After his bath, with his lion smiling down from the mobile. March 2004
6 Feb 2004, kicking the hanging toys on the Kick 'n' Play bouncer.
Watching TV with Dad.
Probably American Idol or Real World
Older pictures...
Kazem at 2 months (26 Jan 2004).
The pregnancy was considered "High Risk" due to Ren's diabetes and, to a lesser extent, her age. There were several ultrasounds to see how Kazem was developing, and we were told repeatedly that he was "macrosomic" and was going to be a BIG baby.
At his 33 week ultrasound (October 30, 2003), Kazem supposedly weighed approximately six pounds fifteen ounces (two ounces more than his actual birthweight 26 days later)! The doctors talked about inducing at 36 or 37 weeks, in order to avoid having a 10-pound baby.
There was an amniocentesis test on November 18, to check for lung maturity. Test results showed that his lungs were ready, so the first round of inducing was started that day! But after 24 hours, there wasn't enough (or any) progression, though - no labor, no dilation, just massive cramps!! So Ren and Jalil were sent home that day.
Inducement was started again on 24 November, with the Pitocin drip. Again there wasn't much progression, although this time there was real labor. After his heart rate dropped a few times during contractions, Kazem was finally delivered via c-section at 7:30 a.m. exactly, on Tuesday the 25th.
Six pounds, 13 ounces. Perfectly normal weight, not at all macrosomic! Sigh. Doesn't someone owe us a couple pounds of baby??
Page Created 9 December 2003
Updated: 25 Aug 2005
