How very odd...

So, when we moved in here, there was one baby on this end of the street, and she was a beautiful healthy little specimen of a miniature human... or "cute parasite" as my sister likes to refer to them. Anyway, little did we know that by moving in here, we would become one of three pregnant couples at this end of the street. There are now four babies on the street all born within 12 months of each other (actually, I think the official span is 8 months).

The first of the three expected babies went a week over, and they attempted to induce, didn't work, they tried again a week later, still didn't work, in the end, Caylee finally arrived nearly a month late (and yes, it was by induction... C-section, actually). She weighed in just fine, but she has a very oddly shaped head, and to be honest, my baby, who is two months younger seems to be much more alert and appears to be somewhat more interested in the things going on around her.

The second baby, our Rebecca, arrived about two months after Caylee, and almost two weeks late, weighed in at much less than they wanted a two week late baby to weigh, and was much shorter than they wanted as well. Now, she's perfectly healthy, but she did have a "low" birth weight. Oh, and she was induced because the waters broke.

The third baby, Danielle, was another two week late baby, and she only weighed 4.5lbs, which is what Rebecca quite likely could have weighed had we not started packing on the protein so she would gain some good weight at the end there. Danielle is a very cute, but small two month old now... though she's almost the same size as Rebecca, but like Rebecca, people ask if she is/was a premie regularly. And yet again, she was induced.

Isn't it a little odd that three out of four babies born within a six month span of each other would be late, all three require induction, and two of those three late babies be small for gestational age? I'm starting to wonder if I should be concerned about our water or something... :-S