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The newborn daughter of a very dear friend of mine recently had heart surgery to correct a congenital defect. Fortunately, the surgery went smoothly, the defect was easy to correct and the baby is doing just fine. Still, it's been a few weeks of highly emotional extremes. (Yay! The baby is here. Oh no! The baby is having heart surgery. Yay! Everything went well. Oh no! My friend is even more exhausted and stressed than the typical first time parent of a newborn.) I've spent a good deal of time in recent weeks thinking about my friend, her husband and her baby, and I've spent some time noticing (oh, what a change that is from years past!) how I'm thinking about them and what my impulses are. And I've found my impulse is to shop. And research. But mostly research about what I could shop for...
