Elyse Newborn Photos

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Mr bojangles

future Bob Dylan maybe?

Lets play name that baby...

Name that baby!

and this

now this

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now this

and this


the hint is that it goes x,e,e,x,x,e

Then we had Christmas

Christmas this year was quiet and simple. The kiddos, the grandparents and Karen and I. Here are the highlights.



E's new swing and rattle


dad cooking food.


Grandmere and X


Gaga and E


post consumption food shots.



Karen



my mom (gaga)


My dad (gramps)


Worn out from playing pass the baby


ply-doh overload


New cars too


one cool dude

Pictures a go-go.

So we have had a (re)productive month and here are the pics to prove it, or at least the highlight real. If you want to see more look to the left.

Then there were two, kids that is...introducing Elyse (again)


Mommy and baby doing just fine


Daddy, and his new little girl


Proud big brother


the whole gang


First visitors


Heading home


X has been a good big brother, reading to Elyse


Xavier got to build a snowman with grandmere.


and make cookies too.


Xavier also got to see Santa.

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sorry, that did not work correctly. I tried to load 8 photos and for some reason only 2 went up. I will load more tomorrow afternoon once we are out of the hospital, and more in the future.

first visitors

and my sister happened to be in the area
yesterday and got to stop by to see her new niece.

Test picture

So the hospital has a security system set up so you can not load
picture to any websites except facebook for some insane reason. so
this is a test to see if i can get around the system :)

and we have a baby!

epi at 10:15, paged Dr at 11:00 ready to go, pushed through two contractions and we have a new baby.

Elyse Noel, 7lbs 9oz, 20.5 inches 11:31am

ready to eat...
picture to come later.

one step closer

water was broken at 9:15, and epidural in at 10:15... lets have a baby!

Haven't we done this before?

So it is 7:30, the cervadill is out, and she is in the shower. she is in full labor, just not strong enough. Starting the PIT in about 15 minutes and breaking the water around 9. Hope to have a baby by 12:00, we will let you know. Oh yeah and the OB says we are looking at another 8+ pounder, YIKES.

The story so far...

so the story so far...
about three weeks ago Karen was called right before her ob appointment(always on Thursdays) to say she needed to reschedule because her regular doctor was in the hospital. At the time appointment we were placed in the far back room that is usually not used that had a strange vile of brown sludge on the counter. This was our 37 week appointment and the new OB asked a few questions and sent us on our way, we were all assuming that we would see our normal OB the next week. we left the office a little uneasy about the experience but ready for the next week. BUT when we got home we had a new phone message (left just after we left the OB) saying that we would need to reschedule again b/c our regular ob would not be in the office for another week. YIKES. This made Karen a little upset, but we still had two weeks until Elyse was due, so we thought we would just relax and hope for the best.

Well, the next week we got to see that same ob as the previous week, and in a real room. Had a real conversation with her, and she actually checked to see how we were progressing. The good news was that she had dilated some and seemed to be progressing. the bad news was she had high blood pressure and protein in her urine. both of which were "borderline" to indicate preeclampsia and to get a better assessment we would need to track her blood pressure over the next couple days. After the pressures did not go down the OB decided to do a 24 hour urine test. Again, borderline. We were also informed that our “regular OB would be back on Wednesday if we made it that long.” needless to say, that did not help the blood pressure situation.

So, a few sleepless nights, and blood pressure fluctuation later we finally got to see our regular OB today. She said that we were progressing but the blood pressure was concerning so we had a decision to make. SHe basically said that she was willing to induce whenever we felt we were ready, and if we wanted to we could check in tonight. Luck for us, Karen's mom had just flown in from Florida to watch Xavier. So, after a short discussion we decided to go out for a nice dinner and go into the hospital.

Now we are in the l&d wing, the cervidil is in, and we are watching some tv. Upon check in, the nurse informed us that we had progressed considerably from earler today and she does not expect us to make it through the night. I guess we will have to wait and see...

more later.

Pic o the day

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