Saturday, June 7, 2008
Visitors!
Danny, Megan, and Patrick came for a quick visit my first night home. It was great to see them before they made their big move to Canada!Friday, June 6, 2008
Welcome Home Grace!
Bethany bought us a delicious DQ cake. Grace LOVED it...and even shared it with the rest of us! :)
Yummmmm.....We're Home!
Grandma Larson was already at our house to greet us! She stocked our fridge and made us wonderful food. :) It was great to have her here for Grace's first days home!Going Home!
Grace is all ready to go! Dave got his wish and dressed her in Bronco's gear. It was intended for a boy....but...I told Dave she could wear this home as long as he found an orange bow to go along with the outfit. Lucky for him...our nurse Cheryl came through for us and found one!
Amy- Our favorite nurse! :) She stocked us up with cheetos, mountain dew, bows, and pretty much anything else we needed.
A lovely view of the room that we spent almost a week of our lives in. :)
A lovely view of the room that we spent almost a week of our lives in. :) Thursday, June 5, 2008
Hanging out at the Hospital
While at the hospital we had many visitors.Don and Bethany were amongst our vistitors that day. 
Here's Olivia Rudzinski offering Grace sweet little kisses!
This is the first outfit we were able to dress her in at the hospital. Guess who picked that one out. :)
This is the first outfit we were able to dress her in at the hospital. Guess who picked that one out. :) 
Daddy and Grace!Beautiful flowers!
These are one of the many beautiful flowers we received at the hospital! These ones are from the Kreagers. Unfortunately they didn't quite survive the parking lot. =( But...we loved them. :)!
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Big Day!
Today was a big day! Grace was able to come to our room for the first time! She did great through the night and they were able to unhook her from everything but the IV's. She had one more day with the IV's in her foot. We had Grace in her room all day....but she spend the night in the nursery so she could still be closely monitored. Dave and I were able to get some sleep...so that was okay. =)Tuesday, June 3, 2008
As you can see from the pictures...Grace had a somewhat rough start to life. They had her hooked up to all sorts of monitors. She had a heart murmur that they were afraid was problematic. Thankfully that turned out to be nothing. She was hooked up to IV's. She also had a slight case of sleep apnea. The Lord graciously looked over her and answered our prayers. A few days later we were able to bring our sweet baby girl home!
Thanks to a tornado warning around 3 p.m. that day I was able to get out of bed and see little girl. We didn't get to hold her until later that night. I had the delight of going down to the nursery from 2:00-3:00 a.m. that next morning and was able to hold her for the first time. It was worth the lack of sleep! :o)
Monday, June 2, 2008
So...on June 2nd I went to get cervidal put in. My blood pressure had been high for the past week or so and I was diagnosed with gestational hypertension. My doctor was afraid it would turn into preclampsia. So...I went in the night before to get the cervidal put in. They said it makes just 5 % of women go into labor. Well...I was one of those lucky 5 %. It worked a little too well! I was having contraction on top of contraction and our baby's heart rate was starting to drop each time I was having a contraction. The nurses tried taking to cervidal out....having me switch positions....putting me on oxygen...and all sorts of fun stuff. Nothing worked. =( Dave and I were so out of it by then that all we remember was the nurse constantly monitoring things. By 4:00 a.m. I was six cm dilated. They called the doctor in and told us that I would need to have a c-section. At 5:01 a.m. our little baby was born and we were delighted to see that it was a girl!!
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