Because it seems that some prefer the blog and others prefer the forum, I figured I'd transfer the contents of the baby book Tessi is writing in here.

Tessi was tired, weary with worry and long nights perched in an uncomfortable chair in the waiting room nearest the nursery in Hathian General. Finally convinced to take some time away for herself, Tessi makes a quick stop at her apartment before taking a cab out of town. She returns to the hospital a couple hours later, clutching a package to her chest. She resumes her post just outside the nursery and peers through the window at her tiny little daughter, so frail and looking more cyborg than human. She sighs softly and slips into a chair and reaches into the shopping back, pulling out a baby book trimmed with soft lace and a pen she'd bought just for the purpose of filling it with a faint reflection of her love for Michelle.

She cracks the book open and skips over all of the formatted pages to a blank one, where she'd begin writing in a scrawling script as the words seemed to flow from her thoughts to the page...

My Dearest Daughter Michelle,

--Mommy

Tessi closes the baby book, a lonely tear rolling down her cheek. She looks once more into the nursery before heading down to the hospital cafeteria for another cup of coffee.