First Week Madness

In a perfect world I would have been able to capture my thoughts within a day or two of giving birth to our sweet new baby girl, however as is typical of our lives things have been a bit crazy.

Here are the basic stats:

EvaKate Liana Kelly was born at 11:46 pm, she weighed 7 lbs 4 oz and was 19 inches long

She is beautiful, and perfect and none of us can get enough of her. The boys wake up each morning and the first thing they ask is to see their baby sister.

Her birth was a bit stressful, but overall went incredibly well. Chris calls our midwife a miracle worker, and she really is. With any other doctor we would have had a c-section.

EvaKate is such a good baby. She only cries if she's trying to go to the bathroom or hungry. She's put together 5 hour stretches of sleep for the last 4 nights and is eating wonderfully. We all just stare at her a lot in amazement.

As for the rest of our lives, Josh went into the doctor for an ear infection the day after we had her. A couple days later he started coughing quite a bit, then it turned into all day where he could barely talk between coughs. That night he started saying he couldn't breathe and got a fever, so per orders of our peds answering service into the ER him and Chris went. After a fairly useless trip (because any place not specializing in children generally is) they returned home about 2 am and tried to get some sleep.

We went into the pediatricians office the next morning (EvaKate already had an appointment) with much better results. Josh had an in office breathing treatment and oral steroids as well as prescriptions for both. A virus brought on a severe bronchial infection. Joy. Virus. So we've been trying to keep Josh away from the baby which is as hard on us as it is him. Jack also has some form of it that is mainly acting as cold like symptoms for now. We're praying it stops with him so we don't have a sick newborn on our hands!

Amidst that we have also had some very difficult news about Chris's mom which I may be updating more about later. Please keep her in your prayers.

Basically the first week of baby girls life has been a crazy one.

Chris went back to work yesterday and Josh went back to school today, so today will be our first day of being back on a typical schedule. I have time to write this, so we are doing good so far : )

Praying we get back to a level of normalcy soon as I think for all of us (particularly Chris and I in our first born nature) it will help us handle the craziness in weeks to come.