Week one

WOW!!! What a difference a week makes. As you all know, we welcomed Sophia into our lives last week. She had a difficult start in that time. According to the doctors, she had a difficult delivery. She was not pink enough for the doctor's approval and was not raising her arms up and down like she should be. And when she would cry her oxygen level would low very low. So for the first six hours of life, she was not allowed to leave the nursery, which made it very hard on Marty and me as we really didn't know what was happening to our daughter. Finally a doctor from our group came to talk to us, and only said she was going to consult with the neo-natal doctor on call to check her condition. This new doc came to us and informed us that he thought it was best to admit her to the NICU. Marty and I were finally able to visit her at this point - I think it was about 1:00 am.

The doctors in the NICU told us a host of problems that she might have which really frightened us, and the only thing we could do was to wait and see what- if anything- was wrong with Sophia. The problems ranged from seizures to possibly swallowing some amniotic fluid. The tests began- it seems like every time we went to visit, there were new test results all that came back negative -- thank God!!! Since all the test we negative, she began to lose all her tubes and IVs. Sophia still had to stay in the NICU until Tuesday as most babies have a minimum stay of 7 days when they are admitted. The doctors told us that there are 3 kinds of babies that are born- healthy babies who have no problems, babies who have lots of health issues and 'troublemakers'- like Sophia who you think are healthy but are presenting like they have some little problem. So our little Sophia is a labelled a trouble maker from the start, but we will definitely take that since she is fine now!!! I assume since all the tests were negative, she just swallowed some fluid.

On Tuesday, we had to return to the hospital to stay the night with Sophie in a regular room and the nurse would check on us throughout the night just to make sure that we were getting along ok! all went well and were able to bring Sophia home on Wednesday! We are so thankful that we are all home together!!! Marty and I are so enjoying being her mommy and daddy and love to just stare at her and see how beautiful she is.

Thanks to everyone who prayed and kept us in their thoughts during this most difficult time.
Better go- Sophia is calling to me to nurse her!!!