April 1, 2009

After Delivery:

This was the first time that I got to hold my baby. I was sooooo very happy. She was absolutely perfect! She weighed in at 6 pounds 14 ounces and was 20 1/2 inches long.

We were taking pictures and passing her around and just celebrating in general when the nurse looked at her and said, I don't like her coloring. All of a sudden she had gone all ashy so they took her to the NICU and put her on oxygen for about 20 minutes and then she was just fine. Jeremiah went with her and came back to report that there was nothing wrong with her, she was just a little stressed out from delivery.

I have to say here that Jeremiah was AMAZING during labor and delivery! He was so supportive and just there for me. I know that I shouldn't be surprised but I really didn't think that he would be Mr. Supportive and I am so very grateful for everything that he did and that he was totally there for me! He did everything perfectly right for me and I so love him for being who he is. I don't think that I would have done as well has I had without him there.

I am also grateful for Valerie and mom for being there. And for Kathryn and Grandma Aldridge coming when they did. They were all so great and said all the right things also. I have a wonderful family and I am so lucky to have had the support that I did.

Grandpa Mike showed up at 2:30 p.m. right before they took the baby to the NICU and got to hold her for a couple of minutes. He said that she is a beautiful little girl.

They had kicked all of the family out of the delivery room by the time they brought her back to me to try to breastfeed. She was having none of that so they had me go to the bathroom and then wheeled me to my room (103). All of the family was there and the nurse kicked them out of there so that she could do her exam and get me comfortable. While she was doing that, Jeremiah went to the nursery and gave the baby her first bath. Valerie let us use her camcorder so we were lucky enough to get that on video. They they brought her back to the room and everyone held her and loved her again.

Everyone left for awhile and Jeremiah and I decided that her name was going to be Wren Lorraine Martin. It was up in the air between Wren and Stella and she just looked like a Wren to both of us!

Later that afternoon Kathryn left to go and get us some McDonald's and Kali came with Drew, Jaxon, Daria and Trey while they were there Valerie and Justin came with Bella Isaac and Ethan. All of the kids got to hold the baby and were so good with her. Even Ethan held her and hugged on her and was very gentle with her, we were ALL surprised by that! There is a reason that boy is called monster after all! Everyone left and Valerie called us at 8:30 to see see if she could come back because she missed the baby so much! So she came back and held the baby for about an hour.

Wren FINALLY started eating at about 10:30 p.m. tonight although not very well! I had decided to have her room in with us but changed my mind when every time she would sigh I would wake up to check on her. Plus she is such a quiet sleeper that it was hard to tell if she was still alive! So we ended up taking her to the nursery at about 1:00 a.m. They brought her back at 3:00 because she needed to eat and I decided to just have her stay in the room if they were going to bring her back every two hours anyway! I got up every 3 hours and TRIED to feed her and in between she slept pretty good.