I guess it is about time for me to post some pictures of my new little girl on my blog. I can't believe how time flies. She is 3 weeks old today but it just seemed like yesterday that we got to hold her for the first time. I still think back to the day and it seems like a dream. Sometimes I feel like I am going to wake up and find out that everything has been all a dream and none of it happened. I will say this, if it is a dream I hope to never wake up!
Well, back to August 12. We got up that morning and got ready to go to the doctor's office. I had an appointment for the amniocentesis at 9:45 am. If the lung came back mature, than I was to go to the hospital right afterwards for my scheduled c-section. Steve's mom had come into town to stay with Christian and help out (although that didn't work out very well considering Christian and her did not get along at all and bickered the whole time!). After the results from the amnio came back and we were good to go, Steve and I was escorted over to the Labor and Delivery. Steve went downstairs to register me in while I got settled into my room and got prepped for surgery. Steve came back to the room and realized that he forgot the camera in the car so he had to go back to the car and almost missed the whole thing. I was already in the OR and had my spinal block and was good to go when he finally walked in. Everything went really well and Arianna was out at 1:21pm. She had a big set of lungs on her because she cried so loud I bet everyone outside the hospital could have heard her. But, for Steve and I it was music to our ears. We loved it that she cried because it let us know that she was well and alive. Steve got to hold her first since I was still kind of out of it and they were still stitching me up. Afterwards, we went back to the room and Christian got to see his baby sister for the first time. He wanted to be the third person to hold her and he was. He was so happy and proud to finally have a baby in our family.
The nursery came and took her around 3:30pm to give her a good check up. That's when we found out that her blood sugar was really low and they had to start feeding her every couple of hours to keep her sugar up. It took almost 2 days to stabilize her enough to stop checking her levels. The poor thing had so many needle pricks in her heel from where they kept having to poke her. She was also a little jaundice so we had to take her on friday to the Children's hospital to get her bilirubin checked, another heel prick. The bilirubin wasn't too high so they didn't have to do anything further.
She has been a total angel of a baby. The first couple of weeks she slept a lot, even sleeping 8 hours between feedings on one night. Now that she is 3 weeks old, she is awake a little bit more and getting a little fussier. I kind of find myself wondering to myself "Now what do I do with her?". But, overall I can't complain. I got what I always wanted, a baby girl and she is extremely easy to take care, so unlike Christian. My dreams did come true! LIFE IS GOOD!!!!!
Christian had a science project to do for school and we really got into it. He was supposed to make an animal or plant cell. He decided that he wanted to make it edible so we chose to make it out of sugar cookie, jello, candy and frosting. He really got into and wanted to do a lot of it on his own. We made the sugar cookie together, cut out the different pieces we needed and then got to work decorating the thing. He was so very proud of the finished product and although we haven't gotten the grade back yet, he thinks he got an "A". Here are some pictures of our finished plant cell project.
