6-9 weeks!!!

Unfortunately I started back to work last week. We are so lucky and grateful to have Michael's mom, Kathy to keep Taylor while we work. Her Uncle Corey loves her and wants to hold her as much as possible and has to sing her to sleep. She's grown a lot. We think she weighs around 10lb but we'll find out for sure Monday at her 2mth checkup. She's smiling a lot lately and tries so hard to hold her head up and she LOVES her baths.

4 & 5 weeks!!!

So we had our 1 month doctor's appointment last Friday. She weighed a whopping 7lb 4oz. She's getting to be a little chunky monkey now!!! She's so much fun! Below is a few pictures. I love the sunglassed picture, we were playing around in Target. Michael is a huge Penn State fan so of course she has several outfits for gameday!!!

3 weeks!!!

Taylor is now 3 weeks old and weighs 5lb 13oz. She's doing great! She LOVES to eat!!! Below are some of the pictures that we've taken lately along with a few that my stepdad took...

Tummy Time!!!

My sister, Amber, sent her some preemie onesies. This one said sugar and spice ad everything nice!

Taylor is 1 week old!

Taylor had her first doctor's appointment on Monday. He said that she is doing amazingly well. She weighed 4lb 10.5oz, which is good because she lost down to 4lb 9oz before we went home. They had to do a heel stick to check her bilirubin and she hated that and it broke my heart. i wanted to strangle the lab tech. Her bilirubin was great. The doctor seems to think that she is doing so well because we have the same blood type and breastfeeding is going so good. We'll see him again next week. Taylor is so precious to us! She's an absolute joy! My stepdad took these pictures below and some that I posted earlier.

Taylor Michelle has arrived!!!

Taylor was born Tuesday Aug 5, 2008 at 9:44pm. She weighed 4lbs 15oz and measured 18.5in long. After laboring for almost 24 hrs and no progress she was delivered by c-section. The love that we have for her is amazing. I cry several times a day just looking at her. I can't believe we made something that precious. Her daddy is madly in love with her and I can't put into words just how much we love her. She is absolutely precious. Even though she was 4 weeks early and small she is doing great, she was able to stay in the room with me throughout our hospital stay and she came home with us on Friday. We're now getting into the routine of breastfeeding, sleeping, pooping, peeing, etc... but we're loving every minute of it! She is so sweet and so tiny. Thanks for all of your support throughout the pregnancy. We look forward to you meeting our little girl!!!

It's Time!!!

So I had one of my two a week doctor's appointments this morning. My blood pressure is horrible 158/113 and I have +3 protein in my urine. Therefore, I will be induced tonight starting at 8pm. I'm now 36 weeks exactly. I'm scared, nervous, anxious, etc... I took a couple of steroid shots a couple of weeks ago to help mature her lungs just in case I had to deliver early. Hopefully everything will be fine. Last thursday the ultrasound said she weighed 5lb 5oz, so we'll see. I will keep everyone updated... I also have shower pictures that I've been meaning to put up. I've posted one, of course my eyes are closed from laughing at my husband. This was a couple's shower and they made us wear these ribbons... It was fun!!!

Almost There!!!

I thought I would give an update since I haven't posted one in a while. I am now almost 33 weeks pregnant and am HOT & MISERABLE!!! I went to the doctor this past monday and he went ahead and put me on maternity leave because my blood pressure has decided to sky rocket and I had started to dilate. Well as stubborn as I am I decided to work the rest of my schedule for the week at Huntsville Hospital. This in turn lead me to labor & delivery Tuesday night with contractions. They gave me 2 shots of terbutaline to finally stop them. My blood pressure once again was horrible. I followed up with the doctor thursday in his office. He measured me and said the reason I was probably so miserable and my blood pressure so elevated was due to her measuring 38 WEEKS!!! I am a rather short person, there is not much room for her to go. He said she is just a BIG baby!!! REALLY??? The doctor told me that I definetly would not make it to my delivery date of 40 weeks and it was very unlikely that I will make it to 38 weeks. We are going to do everything that we can to keep her in until Aug 18, I will officially be 38 weeks then. Keep us in your thoughts and prayers and I will do my best to keep you updated!!! I've also posted a 4D picture of her from a couple of weeks ago. She would not cooperate....