She’s finally here!
Posted by theburkles on March 4, 2008
Well our little one has finally arrived! Abigail Rose was born at 1702 on March 1st. She weighed 8 lbs 2.6 oz and was 19 1/4 in long. She is absolutely beautiful! He bilirubin count was a little high on Sunday (at her 24 hour check) so we had to put her under the lights and and in a bili-blanket for the night. That was extremely hard on me. Of course all of the nurses and doctors say “lots of babies are Jaundice” and all of the books and literature say 60% of babies are Jaundice…but they aren’t my babies. This one was and she was sick and I couldn’t fix it. BUT the next day her levels didn’t go up and being another day older she dropped down into the low risk range and was able to come home with us!
Our first night home was a little rough on all of us. Abigail wouldn’t eat, she was fussy, she was gassy, she would only sleep if we held her…like a said a little rough. Of course my horomones are all over the place the past few days so I was bawling like a baby all evening. We called the birth center to ask if we should be concerned that she wouldn’t eat and they advised us to just ride it out and let her lead us. Abigail and I spent the night on the recliner last night and Aaron came down a few times throughout the night to check on us. There was no point in all of us staying up all night, and I needed to keep trying to feed her so he slept last night and then he watched her this morning while I got a few hours of much needed sleep.
Here are some pictures of her home coming yesterday.
Today she is happy as can be. She has slept most of the day, been up to eat 4 times already today, leaving us lovely dirty diapers to clean up (which we are happy about cause it means she’s eating and getting that bilirubin out of her system).
She’s so perfect. Aaron and I can’t get over how absolutely perfect she is. We can’t keep our eyes off of her. We’re both scared to death about this parenting thing! You can read every book under the sun that tells you what to expect and how to handle it and all of this and that but until you bring your newborn home you have no idea! We’re all learning together though. Pour Aaron has had an upset stomach since we brought her home…nerves of course.
Well, Abigail is sleeping now so I’m going to get some lunch and rest my eyes while I can. We will keep you all posted with blogs and pictures.
Love,
The Burkles
