How you know that Calla is a Lundberg

It's not as if there's much doubt, but I offer for your consideration:

1) freakishly big head: she's got it--they had to find a different baby hat for her than the standard one, because the standard ones basically fit her like a yarmulke. She shares this characteristic with Annabeth, whose head was so big that it looked like a grapefruit on a toothpick. The bigness of the Lundberg head runs deep in the family lore--I can never find hats that fit, and my dad had to have a football helmet specially made to accommodate his ginormous noggin.

2) she's loud: I really think if the other babies in the nursery could evict her, they would

3) penchant for the ambiguously threatening medical symptom that never quite turns out to be a concern: Calla is in the special care unit because she had a high I.T. ratio (basically a count of mature to developing white blood cells--hers was more slanted to developing white blood cells than normal, which is a weak indicator of infection) and a high overall white count. This means that if all goes well we'll be delayed a day or two getting out of here while she gets prophylactic antibiotics ("prophylactic" is a much more fun word and concept when not attached to antibiotics).

This runs par for the course for a Lundberg: Calla already had one really fun false alarm, a Choroid Plexus Cyst, which is a weak indicator of rough disorder, trisomy 18. Even though these cysts are almost always benign, it is never fun to have to read articles like "Should I Be Worried About a Cyst in My Baby's Brain?"

Maybe Calla's just taking after her big sister. Anna had a fun encounter with MRSA
as a newborn. Even though a flesh eating antibiotic resistant bacterium sounds pretty spooky, MRSA was a dud in Anna's case. The worst thing it did was force all the visitors to wear gowns and eye shields.

But hey, isn't Daddy to blame in the end? In the great tradition of Lundbergian hypochondriacs, Daddy had a record setting SIX different imaging studies (CT, MRI, Endoscopy--you get the picture) and three ER admits during grad school with a net outcome of exactly zero significant medical problems.

Oh well, at least she's learning how to fit in with the rest of the family. I only wish one of the kids would take after Beth and be a paragon of health and well-being.