Hello Everybody....Thank you all for your comments on my blog....and your continued support through emails, texts and visits. The other day I was reading all the comments on a bulletin board that is in the family room of this floor of the hospital. It has pictures of lots of babies of whom their mothers had to be up here at Baylor for long term before they delivered for various reasons. One of the pictures had a break down of the costs of having to be up here for eight weeks and it went something like this...An eight week stay in the hospital $52,000, Hospital visits, meals, ect. $1,000, Giving birth to a full term healthy baby- PRICELESS!!! That is so true...It will definetly be worth the wait of a long hospital stay after my precious baby girl gets here healthy and beautiful.
The doctors are still watching my labs pretty closely. Things are slowly creeping up to a critcal point.. Blood pressure gets high pretty often if I am not laying in bed like I am suppose to. But I am trying to be a good little girl!! LOL Anyway, the bottom line is they are trying to buy whatever time they can for the baby. Everyday in the womb makes a difference.
My Mom and Sisters gave me and Tammie a baby shower here at the hospital for friends and family in the Dallas, Ennis, and Corsicana area. I recieved lots of great gifts and we had tons of fun!! Thank you to all who was there!!!
I want to give God the glory for a certain situation that happened in Troy and my life this past week. When Troy went to work on Monday, His company had a meeting and basically told them that the company was loosing money. They had to let several people go because of this. Troy was one of them. The very same day he was able to get his old job back at TISD. They had been trying to get him to come back to work for them for some time. Talk about God turning things around for the good!!! THANK YOU JESUS!!!!
Well that is all the exciting events for this week!! Until Next week.
First of all I want to apologize to all of you blog followers out there. I have been quite occuppied and have not had a chance to update this blog since our precious baby girl arrived. So...I guess I will start with the day she arrived..... Wednesday, February 11, morning the doctor came into my room and said that all of my blood pressure readings were way too high and that it was time to have a baby!! Well this caught me way off guard since the doctor came by to see me everyday and the day before didn't even mention anything about the high pressures. So of course I was very excited but nervous. They wheeled me down to Labor and Delivery about noonish and started inducing.l I was in labor with contractions every 2 to 3 minutes for over six hours and was only to a 1....so the doctor comes in and says that it is stressing the baby out that she thought it was time to have a c-section. This was really bad news for me since I wanted to have the baby natural...so they gave me the option of an epideral or to be put out completely. Well of course I didn't want to miss anything so I chose the epideral. Troy came into the delivery room with me and in about 30 minutes time we had a little baby girl. She weighed in at birth at 4lbs 4oz. at 7:55pm!! It was all very exciting!!! I had it pretty tough the next couple of days because of all the magnesium they put in me....that stuff makes me crazy!! They discharged me from the hospital on Saturday the 14th Valentines Day!! Of course our baby was still in the hospital and we did not want to be far from our baby so I got on priceline.com and found Troy and I a really nice room in Dallas. The next day, Sunday, the social worker at the hospital was able to get us into the Ronald McDonald house. There were several couples who delivered their baby the same day I did that live far away that are staying at the Ronald McDonald house also. Every since Sunday we have been pretty much sleeping at the Ronald McDonald house and staying up at the hospital with Mary Allison during the day. Right now the main goal for Mary is to gain weight and strength. She has lost down to 3lb 14oz which the doctors say is normal for all babies to loose the first week. Now she needs to start gaining. She still has a feeding tube in her stomach but only uses it for every other feeds. She uses the bottle for the rest. The doctors are quite impressed with her progress. She is a fast learner!!! And spunky too!! She has the longest fingers and toes I have ever seen on a baby. Let's guess where that came from!! LOL She looks alot like I did as an infant in the face, but she does have the dimple in her chin like her Daddy too. We are sooooo very proud of her...and now for the good part...Pictures....Enjoy and until next time...I am very tired and am signing off!! Thanks for reading.
