We are celebrating Riley's one week of life today and I realized that I haven't updated the blog. Apparently being a mother to a newborn is quite time consuming! Miss Priss made her arrival on Thursday, June 18th at 8:24 am - guess she didn't get the memo that Mom is not a mornig person. She weighed in at 7 pounds, 2 ounces and was 19 inches long.
I will say one thing for my child, she knows how to make an entrance! We checked into the hospital at 10 pm on Wednesday, June 17th to get the induction started. After being hooked to countless monitors and taking some drugs designed to get the process rolling, I was given my Ambien and was off to sleep. Thank goodness for the Ambien - I pretty much missed out on all the excitement that night. I was woken several times by the nurses and the on-call doctor - they kept moving me around, sticking an oxygen mask on me, and shooting me up with some drug in the shoulder. Thanks to the drugs I found this all mildly annoying and didn't understand what was going on. Barrett wasn't so lucky and earned his Daddy badge that night by staying awake all night in a chair staring at the monitors. To make a long story short, Miss Priss' heart rate would plummet every time I would have a contraction. I wasn't even aware that I was having contractions! Finally my doctor was called and it was decided that an emergency c-section was in order. Thirty terrifying minutes later and Miss Priss had entered the world. She is perfectly healthy and quite the beauty, if I do say so myself.
Okay, enough from me. I will now turn this over to Miss Priss.
In the hospital on Wednesday - say goodbye to the bump!
First family portrait. Doesn't Dad look cool in his mask??? Very McDreamy like!
Being held by Mema. If you want to hold me you have to take a number - Mema rarely lets me down! She has been with us all week and Mom and I would not have survived without her!
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