3/23/09 - Welcome Baby!

She is here! Still without a name, but we had a beautiful baby girl at 2:52am today. She weighed in at 6lbs 7 oz, the same as Brinley was. She looks like her Daddy, of course, very similiar to Brinley, actually, too. We will try to post a picture later.

She took a couple hours to breathe in a way they were happy with, so they had to take her to the nursery for the first couple hours. Once she was doing better with breathing, they brought her in to nurse and I was having a very difficult time getting her to show interest. After 5 mins or so the nurse came back in and said she knew why she wasn't nursing, her CBC indicated she may have some type of bacterial infection in her blood. So she took her away again, she said they had to get antibiotics in her right away because she was a "very sick little girl". She said she was septic. So the first 5 hours or so, I held her all of 5 minutes. I just wanted my baby with me. Now she has just slept and she will not nurse at all. They are giving her IV fluids and antibiotics until they get the culture back. I am sure she will be fine, I just wish we knew more than we do. If she would perk up and cry or something I would feel much better. She is beautiful and so precious. And she smells so good. I think I will go hold her again now :) We'll try to post some pictures soon, this labor went unexpectedly fast, I delivered an hour and a half after we got here, but I did not get my beloved epidural until I was 8 cm dialated, and it was um, not fun. But it is over and we have our sweetie!