We Have Been Blessed

Woooohoooo- I actually seem to have Isabella on a pretty good schedule. I was so worried about her establishing a routine she would not want to break from while she was in the hospital.

But she is doing really really good. She is still feeding every 3.5 to 4 hours during the day . Her last feeding is at 11:30 p.m and stays asleep till 7:00 in the morning. Not bad at all.

It's been amazing having her. She all ready is developing a sweet personality and the boys could not love her anymore than they do !!!!

The angel pics I am loading of Isabella were taken by my good friend Suz. They are just so sweet and I will load up the Birth Announcements she made as a gift for our family later today.

It's been awesome the love and kindness that has been shown to us from our family & friends. Isabella's closet is just full of super sweet girlie clothes.

Boy is she ever Daddy's girl all ready. Damien rushes home to spend the evenings loving on her as well. Tooooo cute.

God has truly blessed us !!!!!!!!!!!

HOOOORAY - Isabella is Home with Us

Isabella is finally HOME with us. She came home Thursday evening and what an emotional roller coaster that was.

I had called in the morning to see how her blood work had come out and it showed that her count had gone down. I knew that the determining factor of weather she could come home or not would be the evenings blood work so I did not get too excited at this point and she had all ready established a pattern of going up in the evening.

When we got to the hospital we were so excited to find out indeed it had gone down quite a bit- again so I knew and was excited that there was a great possibility that she could come home with us this evening.

We waited for a call from the DR. and waited and waited and waited.........................

The hospital tryed getting a hold of him and could not so we waited some more and waited and waited............... Finally my husband looked at me and said, we can only wait so much longer.

My heart almost came out of my mouth and I couldn't even speak I could only give him a shake of my head in agreement. Knowing I would be having to leave my Baby Girl once more.

I thought I was doing o.k. and managed to control my emotions up until the elevator doors closed. Out every tear and wail that had been held for six days finally were let loose. After it was said and done I felt horrible for the other couple who got in the elevator with us little did they know what they were getting into.

I cried all the way to the car. My poor husband was no were near as emotional as I was (always a given) but I could tell he was having a really hard time with it and for once had no consoling words to give me left in him.

Then we got the phone call. We were almost to the highway and about to get on it when the DR. called and my husband answered and handed me the phone. Big mistake - I couldn't even get a word out threw the sobs when I hear the DR. laugh and say turn around and go get your Baby Girl - She is waiting for you !

6-12 Seven Days.......

and still no Isabella. For some reason her billy count is not staying consistently low. It fluxs as much as rising to 15 points and then back down to 11 or twelve.

They just put her under a third light hoping that this might be what she needs to push it out of her blood stream.

We are trying to stay upbeat and not let this ware us down but it has been hard. I don't think it helps that the hospital is over 45 minutes away. Damien rushes home just in time to shower and rush out of the house with out eating. We are lucky to be back in town at a reasonable hour.

On the positive side she is eating great and we have only had to switch the formula once so far to ProSobee. All of my kids have been so sensitive to milk and formula so this is something we are keeping a close eye on as well.

Saying goodbye and having to leave her has been extremely hard on us but as of last night her color is really looking great and we are staying hope full that she could come home this weekend !

Disapointment !!!!!!

Our hearts are breaking- Isabella is still at the hospital and under the Billy Lights. Last night leaving the hospital with out her was so hard. All ready our family feels so incomplete with out her !

I called early this morning hoping that her count might have gone down a little and it did not ,so when I spoke to the Dr. he said she needs to stay another night. This is really really hard.

In my mind I know this is whats best for her but my heart wants her home so badly ! !!!!

Meeting Isabella - Born July 6th at 1:27 p.m.

Our Story: Isabella Julia

Tuesday the 3rd I had a Dr. appt and he was still really worried about how big I was getting but I had not dilated so he wanted me to go in on Friday morning the 6th to the hospital for an OCT Test. Basically what this test is they were planning on giving me just a little pitocin to give me contractions so they can monitor the baby's heart beat to see how she handles them. It is based on a pass or fail - Passing means she would be able to handle a natural labor and failing meaning she would have to be taken out c-section.

So when I got to the hospital and was getting prepped for the IV the heart rate monitor and the contraction monitor was showing that my contractions were coming every 4 minutes. I was really surprised when the nurse came back in and said well we are calling the Dr. in because they would not be giving me the test because I all ready was in full labour. I was surprised to hear this and before I new it the Dr. was in checking me and I had all ready dialated to 2cm and thinned out quite a bit. My water bag was broken during that time and 2 hours later (with not enough pain meds :') in me) I found my self pushing and our baby girl was born into this world. 8.3 lbs and 20 inches long with a head full of hair. AMAZING !!!!!!

All in all it was a great and fast delivery. A little unexpected but everything happened so fast.

Unfortunately our blood types clashed and she was born coons positive and when they re-leased me today she still had to re-main in the hospital under the Billy Lights.

It was extremely difficult and sad having to leave her there but we know it is for the best and are saying our prayers that in the morning her billy rueben count is down and we can bring her home.