She's Growing!

Just a quick update on Maisy. She had her first visit to the pediatrician on the 28th and is doing really well. She now weighs 8 lb 13 oz, and is 21 inches! That's almost 2 pounds heavier and 2.5 inches longer! She has definitely been eating well and looked bigger to us, but it was very comforting to see the actual growth in numbers. I'll add more pictures with the next posting.

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Maisy has her very own youtube page! Check back often for the most recent uploaded videos.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Maisydavis

Welcome, Maisy!

Well, after a hiatus from blogging (due to a baby who is quite fond of the boob), I'd like to introduce our beautiful little girl, Maisy Marie, born August 5th at 8:05 pm! Maisy was 7 pounds and 18.5 inches and is very alert. Her eyes were wide open since the morning after she was born. She's very mellow, so we consider ourselves lucky!

Here's the short version of what happened on Maisy's birthday:

Paul and I had our weekly visit to the obstetrician at 11am that day and were ready to duke it out with her again regarding a c-section. The baby was still breech and I was feeling unusually nervous, which I chalked up to having to deal with BS at the doctor's again. When the nurse took my blood pressure it was quite high. I will avoid going into the annoying details about that visit because if you've read previous posts, it's just more of the same. To make a long story short, due to the high blood pressure, we agreed to go to the hospital for monitoring and a blood panel testing for toxemia. After about 2-3 hours of monitoring, my blood pressure still hadn't gone down and one of the blood tests came back elevated. Since toxemia (preeclampsia) is so dangerous and could get worse in the snap of a finger, we decided that there was now a valid reason to have a cesarean. I was 3 days past the due date and was ready to fight for another week or so to see if the baby would turn or if I could at least go into labor first, but after a quick search on the internet about the situation, it was pretty clear that toxemia was nothing to mess around with. So, at 7:30 I went in for my spinal block and by 8:05 Maisy was born. She even pooped on the doctor who gave us so much grief the last several weeks of the pregnancy while she was being pulled out. Way to go, Maisy! So that is the short version of the story. I don't have time to write details about the surgery or hospital stay right now. Hopefully down the road I'll be able to write about that. As for now we're just trying to get used to being new parents and are taking it one day at a time.