Long over due for some updates??

Its so hard to even know where to start the past 6 1/2 weeks of my life have been some of the most wonderful weeks of my life. From the moment I held Taylor for the first time I knew my life would never be the same. Danny is an amazing father he helps feed her and he even helps with dirty diapers, he has been rapped around her finger since the day she was born. I am so proud of the way he's just jumped right in with me and we're both just trying to figure out everything together, I think we make a good team. We both just enjoy her so much she's are snuggle muffin =). she is 100% girl she love to be held and snuggled, she even screams like a girl and her favorite color is PINK =) ..ok so I made that part up.



BRING HOME THE BABY.........



The first week at home was just a blur, a lot of sleepless nights, sleepless days, diapers and feedings. I had trouble sleeping because I was afraid I would miss something. But I can honestly say I loved every part even the nights that I was so tired and all wanted was for her to go to sleep, when she would look at me with her bright wide awake eyes I couldn't help but love her and be thankful I had a baby to keep me a wake at night. I wouldn't have traded one of those sleepless night for anything. I genuinely love being a mom, as pathetic as it sounds it feels like what I was made to do. I knew I always had a deep love for children and babies but there is nothing like having your own.



OUR ROUGH START........



When she was exactly two weeks old I woke up to feed her at her 7:30 feeding and I noticed she felt warm I walked into the living room to say good bye to Danny because it was his first day back to work since the baby was born and mentioned to him that she felt warm and he told he noticed it too. I instantly knew something was wrong. After going to see our pediatrician me and the baby were headed to the hospital. Danny decided to stay at work while I got me and the baby all checked in since this couldn't have happened at a worse time with it being Danny's first day back after being off for 2 weeks. Everything started to move really quickly and to say the least I was scared to death for my baby. Her fever was still extremely high and they told me they were goes to have to do a spinal tap, draw some blood and start an IV. I felt so completely helpless. I had to endure her getting 3 spinal taps, two unsuccessful IV's in her right hand, two unsucessful IV's in her left hand and then one in her arm, FINALLY they got an IV stated in her foot. All this last a good 3 or 4 hours and I felt like breaking down, she was sick and then I felt like she was being tortured on top of everything. My stomach was in knots and I was filled with fear. They were not sure what was causing the high fever so they started two different broad spectrum antibiotics. While we waited for results. By the time Danny got to the hospital they had finished all the heart breaking torture and I was about to go into melt down mode. I was so glad to see him. The last place i ever expected finding my self with my new born baby was the hospital. They ended up finding out that she had a bacteria in her urine that spread to blood stream -she was a sick little girl. They ended up having to do and IV pick line in her head which resulted in them having to shave her hair =(... which was small price to pay to get my healthy baby back. The doctor working with us said that luckily the infection did not spread to her brain, had that happened we would not have had a happy ending. We spent a total of 12 days at the hospital, it seemed like much longer since I pretty much stayed in the room with her day and night I just wanted to get back home and start enjoying my baby again. We discovered through a test on her kidney's that she has reflex in both kidneys which does maker her more prone for UTI's which could land us right back in the hospital. Some kids grow out of this and that's what were praying will happen. No more hospitals!!!



LIFE AFTER THE HOSPITAL......



The past few weeks have been wonderful I have enjoyed every moment with Taylor, after the hospital scare I was so aware of how I should never take anything for granite. She is growing so fast and it's to think I go back to work in a little over a week. I am not sure how I am going to stand being away from her 10 hours a day at this point is hard for me to imagine being away from her all day but I'm sure I'll find a way to cope. The time I've had with her has been so special and has gone by so fast, I can't get enough of her =)!

Updated PICTURES soon to come =)