Time

Where has the time gone? Isabella is 12 days old already. Already outgrowing a few of her preemie outfits. I cannot tell you how much I love having this baby in our home. My friend Debra just came to visit. She is a potter and she made Isabella her own tiny set of dishes. This baby has way more clothes than she will ever be able to wear. What a blessing. The only down thing here is me. Gee, what a surprise. I haven't slept much since the baby came home. I'm fine all day but when it's time for bed I begin to worry. It's crazy. I guess it has to do with the baby I lost many years ago. He was fine until he was 2 weeks old. Then he was gone. This baby is totally healthy and there is no reason for me to worry. But still, I do. My walking the halls and bugging Cady in the middle of the night is wearing on her I am sure. Tonight I will sleep like a normal person. Okay, close as I can get to normal. We have watched the birth video about 25 times and still we all cry. It's going to be a wonderful Thanksgiving/Christmas this year. I can hardly wait.

Send Sleep Please!

This is a good little baby. She almost never cries. But she is doing that thing lots of new ones do and that is mixing up her days and nights. I think it is I that is mixed up to tell the truth. I am awake till 3 or 4 every night.I get up in the morning and stay in my room on this thing in order to let Cady catch some Z"s. I will read a few of your blogs and then find my head bobbing to the side or just about fall into the keyboard. Hmm, like now. I wish that I wrote with the talent that so many of you have. I would love to share Isabellas birth story with you. Cady would like that. I suppose that I will tell her story but I wish I could afford a ghost writer.

Having a new baby in our house again is just the best thing ever. All I want to do is clean. And sleep. We took her to her 3 day check up on MondayAM. Isabella's Dr is the same Dr Cady had her entire life right up until she found out she was pregnant. He and his wife are the pediatricians for most of my grandkids. I took pictures of Dr Larry giving Cady her first check up and her 1 yr check up. Time flew by somehow and now I have pics of Dr Larry with Cadys baby. The years go by faster with each passing one and I wish it would stop for cryin out loud. Joe. Cady and I all went to Walmart last night to get a few things for the baby. It was a struggle but Joe finally won and got to carry his new pride and joy around the store just as he did Cady 18 years ago. Ordered Cady a sling and she tried it our last night. That baby is so small she kind of gets lost in it. Anyone have a favorite brand of baby sling? This one is Baby Karma or Karma Baby. One of those. Oh hell, I will try this later, I have been asleep 4 times since I began. How bout I just shut up and post pics? Stpooed in for a nursing break while in town last night and took a few pictures of Isabella in Natalies room. The night before Cadys water broke we fooled around with some pics. We had intended to go to the mountains for the real ones this week-end. I am so glad we took what we did.

Finally

We worked for 7 hours on Cadys room. Heather(Cadys sis) JJ(dearest old friend visiting from Calif) and myself. It looks nothing like the old room. Joe and JJ's husband Joe, hung out in the living room and we girls plus Natalie had to best time ever. We hung a pretty quilt after these pics were taken but the room is done. Cady will be home tomorrow. Baby is a bit jaundiced. Hope she is not too bad. She was not eating and so she got another day. Thats what having non stop company all day will do for you. I had to go to ask the nurses to take charge and stop things. By then damage was done. Some people will pass a baby around a room like a bowl of popcorn. Her dad and I cannot wait to get our daughter back home where we are in charge. I am pretty upset. Cady is too young and sweet to stand up for herself. I think she will be stronger from now on.

She Has Arrived

Perfect in every way. I have been sitting here asleep for 30 min. I will post pics and tell you all about it tomorrow. I do have to say a few things. This was the most amazing birth I ever witnessed. Cady never lost control. She had no drugs, she was almost totally quiet. Did most of her laboring in the hot shower on the ball. She ended up with no stitches. I am so proud. Baby daddy was amazing also. he was right there every minute. Her water broke this morning at 9:30. here I go, I will tell this story later. Thank you for the prayers. We felt them one and all.I loaded these pica backwards. Sorry, its 4AM. I forgot to warn you, in our family birthing is a family affair. Cady wanted lots of pics and she got them.

hi

had to run home to let dogs out. cady is so calm. I am freaking out. She is not doing much. Contractions every 5 min. , oh my gosh, we are having a baby!! took this pic on Monday.we love her midwife, Shirley.

Pray

Cadys water just broke.baby is 36 wks today and will be fine but pray anyhow please. I am freakin out. love you

Am I Dreaming?

The day began so sweetly. Gage spent the night. Maddie comes at 8AM. I keep her 4 days a week while mommy is at school. They were thrilled to see one another. The only thing they like better is to see Auntie Cady. They both tippytoed into my room and climbed into bed with Cady. The being quiet ended at that point. Cady had to get up anyhow. At her Dr appointment on Monday there was protein in her urine and so she had to do a 24 hr urine collection test. That means peeing into a little potty hat and then pouring it into a big jug and then putting that into the fridge. Yuck-o. Every drop for 24 hrs. I have never heard of this one before. Anyway, she got up and within a few minutes she had a throbbing headache and was dizzy. Started seeing spots and the whole thing. Called Jessie for help and she was here in 5 minutes and took both kids. She got worse and we spent the entire day at the hospt. Like 12 hours. Lots of blood tests and IV's. Lots of very sweet nurses. I came home to let the dogs out to pee and when I returned Cady was in total darkness with a heat pack on her head and an oxygen mask on crying. They gave her 3 kinds of meds and nothing took away the pain. They waited for the meds to wear off and as time passed she got a wee bit better. Daddy came up after work and that cheered her up. When I heard her trying to con her dad into taking her out to their favorite Chinese restaurant I knew she was feeling better finally. It's so awful to see my little girl in pain and afraid. I hope we can have a day at home tomorrow and that I can clean my house. There's nothing like a new baby to make me want to clean and scrub. If I knew how to pay attention there would not be 2 of the same pic. Nope, I do not know how to delete the extra. It seems like I should know how to do these things by now.

Where Was I?

This is a long story and I hope the pics can tell some of it for me. First, we are home and safe. Baby Isabella is now officially old enough to be born in our hospital.(35 wks) Last week Cady kept spotting and cramping. The hospital wanted us in each time she felt crampy. The 3rd time was lasr Wed I think. That is when we were told that our hospital has a clause in their insurance that all babies less than 35 wks shall be transported to Albuquerque. They have the states best NICU. After many hrs and having to endure several fun exams Cady seemed to have settled down for the night. I let babydaddy(Sergio) spend the night with babymama and I went home to try to get a bit of sleep. Just in case the unimaginable happened and Cady got shipped out, I needed to get a few things together for both of us. Sergio may be the baby daddy but I am the Cady mama and there was no way my baby was going to be flown away in the dark without me. Sergio understood. At 3 AM my head had just hit the pillow when the phone rang. He told me what I didn't want to hear and I woke Joe and grabbed a very odd bunch of stuff and we were off. Instead of packing what we may have needed I had washed a few things for us both but mostly I was on the computer reading up on what was going on in Cadys girl parts. I knew we would not be going anyplace.WRONG, I was so afraid that I would miss the plane. I called Heather to let her know. (oldest daughter and bestest friend) She was at Cadys bedside when Joe and I arrived. The ambulance driver told me they may or may not let me go along. Alamogordo has a small airport. Private planes and emergency aircraft. I have not been there in 29 years. I rode in the ambulance with Cady and the nurses while 3 cars followed. Joe, Heather and Sergio all sleepy and in the same weird scarey dream. The sky was just getting light. I ran over and asked the pilot about letting me come along and he couldn't have been nicer. I had to leave behind some of the things I packed. The plane was small. I sat in a jumpseat in the very back. My bags under my feet.Cady was looking a bit shocky. Joe hugged me and said a short prayer for us. I climbed aboard and we were off. Since it's almost 2AM I will leave off here and write the rest tomorrow. As you can tell, I loaded the pics in reverse. it was just getting light when we left. The flight is about 45 minutes. They sent us to University of New Mexico Hospital. Lots of hot looking young doctors. I kept thinking of Greys Anatomy and wondering if they(hot drs) were meeting the hot nurses in the supply room. Cady and I quickly made friends with our nurse and tech. Our tech spent her free time hanging out with us. This was a very strange adventure the 2 of us went on. Am adding a pic of our tech that we loved and I cried when we left her. Crystal was a sweet gal. as you can see, I may not have brought myself any pants except what I was wearing but I brought my camera and charger. nobody cared when I asked if they minded being in my pics as I am blogging her entire pregnancy.