Hello All

Here we are and Mary Michelle is almost a month old. We added some more pics in the photo album. She's doing well and she still likes to sleep a lot (like her mom.) And when she's awake she's pretty relaxed and goes with the flow (like her dad.) So far she got all of our good qualities and no bad ones yet.

On Sunday she started smiling at people. She doesn't smile all the time yet but she does break one out every so often. She can also roll over now and lift her head up off the floor when she's on her tummy. The doctor said she looks good and she's over 8 lbs now. Well that's the update for now.

Mel and Miss Mary

She's Arrived

So here she is! Our little Mary Michelle Grace. She was born on Aug 3rd at 8:35 pm weighing 7lbs. 9oz at 19.5 inches. She's a cutie pie. I went into labor on thursday Aug 2nd during the day. (It's actually hard to figure out exactly when labor started because I'd been having contractions for weeks.) I went in that night at 11pm to the hospital to be induced and I was already at 3cm! So I got some pitosin and it began. Then I stalled labor friday night from noon to 6pm or so at about 6 cm. The doctor's didn't think that I'd be able to go all the way and we're talking C-section! But then it took off and at about 7:40 pm I was told it was time to push. And here she is!

We had a little scare after delivery though. She came out crying but when she went to take her second breath, she blew a little hole in her lung called a pneumothorax. So her right lung collapsed and they had to rush her off to the ICU. The doctor had to remove the air in the sac surrounding her lung with a needle and she had to spend two days in the ICU while the lung healed. Mary pulled through though and boy do her lungs work great now.

We've already found out that she loves to sleep and will sleep through anything, even eating. She hates being woken up to eat.

Went to the Doctors

I went in to see the doctor today (actually it's a nurse but whatever. the person who examines you and lets you know stuff.) And she said that I was 2 cm dialated. Yaaaa! So I'll be going in tonight at 11pm and they'll give me some gel that's supposed to help things along. So If something happens ya'll will be getting phone calls in the middle of this night. But if nothing happens then we'll just talk to you later. But wish us luck. It could be our lucky day!