One week!

Our little beauty is one week old today!  We never thought that she would have been here before her due date which is today...hard to believe!  We love her so much....she makes us laugh with her many cute/funny faces and her ever so gassy self.  

A few things about Adah:

- sleeps great during the day but not at night

- loves to make many many faces

- loves to sleep on mommy

- loves to look at daddy

- HATES her hands swaddled down

- always has her hands in her face

- hates to have her diaper changed

- loves bath time

- she lost her umbilical cord today

- loves to sleep in her bouncy seat with the calming vibration on

- eats every 2-3 hours....more on the 2 hour side

We are so loving getting to know our little girl and Josh and I could just stare at her for hours!  We are however more tired than we could have ever imagined!  She had her first doctors appointment this past Saturday and is doing good!  Her head is rounding out great and she is still at 7lbs 14oz which is what she left the hospital weighing...the doctor thinks she lost more and is now gaining.  We have one week from today to get her back up to her birth weight...I don' think we will have any problem doing that...she is an eating champion!

Thats all I have time for now....

Enjoy these few pictures:

This is what she looks like right after a feeding.....

After her first sponge bath at home.....
Hanging out with mommy in Daddy's favorite outfit.....she does love her daddy!

Welcome to the world Beautiful angel!

Tuesday May 12, 2009 at 5:06pm (pacific time) we welcomed our sweet little Adah Mae into the world! After what seemed like the longest labor in the world (I won't go into detail)! I was however induced on Monday afternoon. Adah weighed in at 8lbs 6.9oz and 21inches long! She is a big girl for being exactly 1 week early!

Needless to say Josh and I are EXHAUSTED! We got discharged from the hospital today and are enjoying being home but are also very nervous.....it was so comforting in the hospital....Josh learned and did so much for our little girl due to the fact that there were several complications for the little lady and myself...ended with me being on bedrest until last night.

We love her to death and couldn't be more excited! We are so thankful for all the prayers...calls...emails...comments...etc! We can't stop thanking God enough for our little girl!

By popular demand here are a few pictures to share...hope you enjoy! I will have more time to update later since my mom will be getting here tomorrow...thank goodness....Josh and I are pooped!


Sweet Adah dramatically relaxing with daddy at home!

Sleeping at home with mommy!

more sleeping with mommy....

more sleeping with mommy...Josh kept thinking she was cute.....

The car ride home...she wasn't a fan of the carseat at all...she cried herself to sleep!

Going home!

Going home outfit. from her great grandma...she looked like a little marshmellow

In the hospital

Her little head with a lotta hair...ready for her bows!

Looks like we don't have a "set" date..

Just wanted to update real quick...don't really have much to say other than the doctor is a liar.  Just joking.  I love my doctor but unfortunately we will not be meeting the little peanut this week unless she decides so.  Since I have been doing as the doctor says and actually laying down and resting, my blood pressure has gone back down to normal...which means he will not be inducing me!  I know what you are all going to say...."it's a good thing"..." she will come when she is ready"...."not much longer now"....etc.  but at this point it is not what you want to hear when you have been on bedrest and told each week that next week is go time and then you go in that week and are told nope.  Just a little frustrating!    Anyway...looks like we will just have to wait now until little ms. stubborn decides that she is ready to meet the world.  

Here is to hoping this labor/dilating process happens faster and sooner than later!  We are now exactly 2 weeks from the "due date" that the doc claims he won't let me go past....we will see if he is telling the truth or not!  I'm hoping we don't have to find out if he is!

Looks like we have a date....maybe

I had another appointment yesterday and he ran some more tests on me....he did a nonstress/stress test on the baby to see how her heart, movement was....she passed with flying colors so that is really good.  He also said that I am 2 cm dialated...which is okay....but I could stay like that for weeks.  Anyway, I go to the hospital on Thursday night for a nonstress/stress test monitoring and blood pressure monitoring to see how she does in comparison to what my blood pressure is.  My doctor said that if my blood pressure stays up while I am laying down at the hospital that he may go ahead and come in and induce me.....but thats not too likely.  I go back to see him at his office on Monday and then he said that he is 99% sure he is going to induce me on Wednesday because I will be 38 weeks then and that there is really no real benefit to the baby after 38 weeks other than getting bigger and she doesn't need any help in that department.  He is just hoping that I will dialate to at least a 3 before wednesday so that it will be easier on me.  

In my crafty news...I made 2 more tutus yesterday....they are super cute and multi colored!  I will post pictures once Josh can sit down long enough to upload the pictures for me....I know how to...I just haven't done it with the new camera so I don't want to mess it up...it is way too high tech and is Josh's little baby so I'll let him handle that.

The guessing game has officially come to a close.  I will live the link up so that you can see what the guesses are but no changing your guess ( and yes I will know....I get notified).  Once she is officially here and I get a chance I will let you know who wins and they will get their prize!

Hoping the doctor sticks with his date of next Wednesday!