Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

So, it is the day for the Irish to be lucky!!  Haha!  Funny, my due date for Camryn was actually tomorrow!!  Crazy!  She will be six weeks old!  Time sure does fly.  My (non Irish) Hubby would like corned beef and cabbage (ew) for dinner, and I (1/4 Irish) would like a green beer (yum) so we are headed out to get some later with the kiddos.  Happy St. Patricks Day!

OMGOSH! So MUCH in so little TIME!

So, it seems the last time I posted was January 11!  That really was NOT that long ago, but for us, so much has happened in that short amount of time!  I returned to work about a week prior to January 11.  I was only at work for a couple of weeks before BAM!  I was put on bed rest for high blood pressure.  The first time I was sent to the ER by my doctor because of high blood pressure.  This was on Friday January 15.  I had been at a guidance counselor's quarterly meeting for work, when i began to feel really ill.  When I got home I took my blood pressure and it was really high.  I called my doc and he sent me to the Labor and Delivery ER.  They monitored me until it went down.  The on call doc told me to stay off my feet until I saw my regular doctor that Wed.  Hopefully, I would get the okay to return to work.  Well, at THAT appt, my blood pressure was high STILL, so he kept me out of work and ordered me to see him weekly.  We would decide at each appt if I could return to work on a modified work schedule.  The next Friday (My darling Isaiah's 5th birthday!!) my blood pressure was the highest it had ever been.  The doc admitted me to the hospital, where he played around with my medications to see if he could get it under control.  He released me late the following evening.  He had grave words for me...strict bed rest or I would end up having to be induced early (as early as 35 weeks) if my blood pressure did not remain under control.  How scary!  That was literally only a few weeks away!

Apparently, Camryn had other plans for us!  My wonderful in laws had taken Isaiah on a Disney Cruise (lucky kid!) for his 5th birthday!  He returned on Thursday January 29.  I remember my mother in law telling me that I needed to get the last few items I needed for the baby.  We didn't have the car seat, and the nursery was not 100% finished yet.  We worked hard (or rather, my wonderful husband and father in law did), and by Sat night, February 4 at 10 pm, it was done.  I jokingly sat on the couch and said, "Great!  Now she can come!"  I was only 33 weeks and 6 days pregnant.  My water broke literally less than 3 hrs later at 1245 am.  I could hardly believe it!  She was going to be so early!  I knew she would be OK, but she was going to be a preemie, and I knew that was going to possibly buy her some time in the NICU.

At 7:42 PM (right after the Patriot's scored their first touchdown of the Super Bowl, and literally minutes before Half-Time), our Super Bowl Baby, Camryn Noelle, was born.  She weighed a TEENY 5 lbs, 3 oz.  I got to hold her for a minute, but then she was whisked off to the NICU where they would monitor her. 

She was perfect.  She did spend a week in the NICU (which was the hardest thing I have done besides losing my father), and the single hardest thing I have ever done is be discharged from the hospital without my Cami Bears.  But, she did GREAT and is now home and....FIVE WEEKS OLD!  Holy cow.  Time sure does fly.  She is growing everyday and literally gets bigger by the minute.  Isaiah adores her!  Here are some more pics to enjoy!!

  ENJOY!