HIgh Five For Friday! :)

Well here is to another addition (and the first one since the birth of my baby girl!) of H54F!!

1. I love my Moby Wrap! This was us cooking supper for daddy and big brother last night!
2. My little man's new favorite toy is Buzz...he goes everywhere with us!
3. I just cant stand the cuteness of her in these little boots!! My favorite!
4. Happy Mothers Day to me! Black Pearls!
5. Em's new hair bow holder made by mwah :) (pretty amazing since I am NOT crafty at all!)

Birth Announcement..

Yes I know I am a little behind...okay 2 months behind!! But I am working on it! I have spent the last two precious months at home with my babies and it could not have been more perfect! I took a break from blogging and focused solely on them for a while. Now I AM BACK!

And to help me get back in the swing I have created my birth announcements using shutterfly.com :) You should check it out if you haven't already and enter the promo code SHIP30 on orders over $30 to get free shipping!

Without further delay here it is...

Emory's birth announcement created on shutterfly.com!

Stationery Card

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I am in love!
 

Nursery is finally complete! (2 months later)

Don't judge me! I have a two year old too! :) that is my excuse for being so late with the finishing touches of the baby room. But it is finally done and she can sleep in her own bed (yea right!)

My baby girl is two months old now and even though she sleeps in her cradle beside mommy and daddy I like to think that if she needed to she could sleep in her own room. Before yesterday it looked like a tornado came through...hey that's not uncommon in this town...but now it is CLEAN!

There was everything from my hospital bag (still not unpacked) to the box from her shelves laying in the floor! Now look at it :)

I have to say with the exception of the chevron wall that didn't work out it looks just how I imagined!

2 months and still growing!

Well it has been 2 months since my beautiful baby girl arrived! She has been such a blessing in all of our lives and we could not be happier!

Today was her 2 month checkup and her first set of immunizations :( My poor little angel didn't know what was coming!

Her doctor report looked good. She weighs 8lb 15oz and although she is only in the 5th percentile of babies her age and size the doctor was pleased after all the trouble she has had! She is eating great and is one of the most content babies I have ever seen.

She has been sleeping through the night since she was 2 weeks old and this momma could not be any happier!

Then there is my little man..he is 21 months and growing like a weed. He is learning to talk more and more everyday! He comes up with a new word every day and never ceases to make me smile.

We have recently started potty training. Not full on hard core all the time training but just getting him use to the potty seat and letting him know what it is for. He seems to be doing pretty well with it. The first day he used it three times!! And since then once or twice a day. I think next week we are going to dig in hard core and get out of these size 5 diapers :) (fingers crossed)

They are both so precious and Emory could not have asked for a better big brother! He loves her more than anything. No one is allowed to hold her without his approval and he has to be sure and kiss her before he leaves any room! It is so sweet!

I love my babies :) but I am not looking forward to going back to work in a couple of weeks :(

Emory: Our birth story part 3

If you have been keeping up with the previous two posts you will see that my baby girl was 4 days old and back in the hospital because she was not eating and loosing weight very rapidly, her jaundice was elevated, and her sodium was so high it could have caused brain damage.

So after her little escapade of pulling the IV out of her head I was a nervous wreck! She still had to be under the jaundice lights for another 8 hours so I couldn't even snuggle her to make her ( and mommy) feel better :(

The next morning she was taken off the jaundice lights because her bilirubin count had fallen!

Baby Emory - 1
Sickness - 0

We were very excited. I got her out of the lights and held her as tight as I could! I laid her down to change her diaper and all of a sudden WAAAAHHHHH! She let out a terrible scream. I looked down and the little turkey had pulled the cord off her belly button!! She is 5 days old at this point how in the world can she manage to not only pull an IV that is taped to her head out, but also to pull the cord off her belly button!

I knew right then she is going to be more than a handful when she grows up!

Anyway her belly is bleeding and once again I am flipping out! (Hey I just had a baby I am allowed to freak out on occasion) the nurse comes running in and sees what is going on. Of course this was no big deal to her she just wiped her off and put some alcohol on her belly.

After this was all over the DR came in to talk with us. The jaundice was basically gone but her sodium was still elevated and even with IV fluids she was extremely dehydrated. So no more breastmilk she was on pure pedialite to hopefully get her hydrated and feeling better.

Halfway through the day and with no success getting Emory to wake up enough to eat a lactation and nutrition specialist came in to check in on us. She tried herself to feed her with no luck. We were never going to get to go home until she started eating on her own :( The DR comes in for the second time that day and says she has ordered an ultrasound of her head because the suction used to get her out of the birth canal may have damaged the part of her brain that tells her she is hungry. AWESOME!

Baby Emory - 1
Sickness - 1

The ultrasound is performed and we wait (not so patiently) for the results. After a couple of hours the DR then reappears and gives us the great news...the ultrasound was clear!!

Baby Emory - 2
Sickness - 0

So here we are with a 5 day old baby that hasn't ate on her own since she was 48 hours old and absolutely no answers.

That night for the first time in days she wakes up enough to get 2 oz down. And then 3 hours later another 2 oz. she had finally started eating!!

Just when everything started looking good another setback! She was born with a very small nose, but now the right side had completely closed up. She was now wanting to eat but couldn't because she couldn't breathe.

She was sent the next day to an ear nose and throat doctor to see what was happening with her little nostrils. They poked and probed and stuck catheters down both sides of her Nose all the way to her belly. She was hysterical and I was in tears just watching her. The doctor cleared her and put her on a nasal spray to hopefully reduce the swelling.

The nurses used a suction three times a day to clear the right side of her little nose. It was miserable to watch but because her breathing was stressed they placed her on a respiratory monitor.

Another step backwards. My baby has apnea :( when she sleeps she stops breathing completely for twenty seconds or more! Scary scary moments. She shakes herself and begins breathing again but not before the monitors drop and alarm like crazy!

Baby Emory - 2
Sickness - 1

Once her nose finally stopped swelling and she was able to eat regularly she was put back on breastmilk and taken off the IV.

Turns out she was having a very serious reaction to the medicine I was on after giving birth! Once i stopped taking it she was doing much better. So the final score

Baby Emory - 3
Sickness - 1 (she still had apnea)

We were finally released from children's after 4 days and able to go home.

And that was how we spent the first week with our little miracle..