Life with Our Itty Bitty Baby Girl

Okay, this has got to be really short because I’m updating from John’s phone since we don’t have internet at home, but I wanted to let everyone know that we had another great day. We came home from the hospital yesterday afternoon, which was really hard, as we had to leave sweet Becca behind. [...]

Just wanted to give everyone a brief update:
Becca is doing great.  They were able to take her off the ventilator yesterday.  That’s right; the day after she was born, they took her off the ventilator.  She’s truly amazing.  Now she’s breathing on her own with a little support from the CPAP machine (set at its [...]

Thanks to the grandmothers, here are some pictures of Becca:
 

Hi all, this is John posting, so it won’t be quite as eloquent as Nancy’s blogging.
Nancy gave birth to a baby girl this afternoon at 3:10.  Her name is Rebecca Marie.  She weighed only 13 ounces and is 9 inches long.  She can easily fit in a person’s hand.  She is doing as well as [...]

Who knew that a morning could be both crazy and boring at the same time?  Turns out it can be!
I’m scheduled to spend at least 20 minutes a day on the fetal heart monitor so that they can get a detailed reading of Itty’s heartbeat.  (We also listen to her every few hours and get [...]

“The good news is that I’m not in the hospital, and I still have a baby in my belly.  The bad news…well…”
 This is what I had begun to write last week before the move.  It’s not entirely accurate now, but we’ll start there.
Last Wednesday (June 11?) we went to the doctor for our last visit [...]

Just wanted to go ahead and give you this week’s statistics update while I’m messing around on here.
We went to the doctor on Tuesday for what turned out to be a pretty disheartening visit.  Since the last Tuesday, she had only grown 1/2 an ounce, or about 15 grams.  Now, before you rush to say, [...]

Okay, I spent forever trying to get the pictures to show up, but now I can only get them up in triplicate.  I can’t figure out how to get rid of the little ones.  Sorry.  If someone knows how to fix it, let me know!

Okay, let me first say that I’m in  a much better mood right now than I was when I last wrote.  Not much has changed, but it really is crazy how even in the same circumstances, we really have good days and bad days, often for no particular identifiable reason.  Yesterday was a bad day.  [...]