Thursday, August 18, 2011

Visitors & Hospital Stay

This is a long post because we had lots of visitors (we didn't get pics of everyone, oops), and a very long hospital stay!

Thursday after Hannah arrived Jan and Shannon came by to meet her!  They also brought an awesome cookie bouquet that was sooo yummy!

Baby girl

Hannah with her little hat on.  Cuteness 

Liz and Chris stopped by to see Lena's future BFF!  They are expecting their little girl in just a few months!

Amber came back to see Hannah!

Uncle Ryan, Austin and Chris all entertained obviously 

Checking out baby girl

Pretty flowers from Lainey and Pops 

The nurses asked us to mark down the time of every feeding, wet and poopy diaper.  Before the 2nd nurse came in we took a pic of the 1st nights activities.  Baby girl had a LOT of poopy diapers that Daddy had to clean!

Sweet girl on her 2nd day

Getting her hearing test done.  She passed with flying colors!  She looks like she's jamming to an iPod.

Pretty girl all dressed up for her hospital pics.  She's in her going home outfit and is on the blanket that I had my hospital newborn pics on!

Holding Daddy's finger

Sleepy girl

Mommy and baby girl (this picture was taken late night obviously)

Uncle Jeff came by to meet the newest family member

Her face cracks me up

Lindsey and Hannah

Friday night we took our 1st walk around the maternity ward.  The 1st of many walks!  

Hannah's cookie bouquet!  There is even a dog in there so Brody isn't forgotten  :)

Daddy and his baby girl.  He is SOOOO in love with her, it's so sweet!

Some of Hannah's loot

Saturday I actually got dressed and ready for the day!   Austin gave me my present for having Hannah, a beautiful pink sapphire and diamond necklace and matching ring that I'm wearing here.  So pretty!

Mommy's new ring and the cutest little butterfly bottom I've ever seen! :)  That was the 1st outfit I bought after I found out Hannah was a girl!

Sweet Hannah hanging out with her Lainey.  She is such an alert baby, right from day one!  All the nurses who came by to check on her commented on what a good and advanced baby she was.  Staying in for an extra week will do that!  I loved their reactions when they'd see her too, they'd walk over and when they'd see her face they'd almost always say "Oh, she's so beautiful!".  I have to agree.  :)  Another thing that several of the nurses said to me was "I hear this is our miracle baby" or "I hear you waited a long time for her".  I don't know what was in her file or if my Dr told them about us or what but it's true, she's our miracle baby!  

Lainey, me and Hannah 

Pops and his newest granddaughter

Love her 

I like this picture because Austin took a picture with the camera and you can see on my cell phone that I had just taken a picture with my phone. We're obsessed.

Aunt Tracy snuggling with Hannah

So awake and pretty!

On Sunday Amber came back with her Mom 

Hannah with her door wreath that I made for her


Hannah loves her Daddy!

Saturday night they weighed Hannah and she was 7lbs 9oz (almost a full pound less than her birth weight) and she was a little high with her jaundice levels so they started having me supplement breast milk after nursing her.  Let me just say, this girl nurses like a champ!  If she had her way, I'd be nursing her every hour.  But her weight got back up an ounce in a day after nursing/finger feeding her and she's all good!  I would have to pump after nursing and use that milk for after her next feeding.  I'd stick my finger in her mouth and she'd suck on it and at the same time I'd put this syringe in her mouth and slowly push the milk in so she'd think she was nursing.

How sweet is this?  I'm finger feeding Hannah and she's holding onto her CiCi's finger.  Love it!

This picture makes me laugh, it looks like she's dancing a little jig! 

On Monday we were finally heading home!  Five nights in the hospital is plenty for the Townsend girls!  She wasn't too happy at first but cheered right up once the car got started.

Ready to go home!

First car ride!

Finally home!

Sweet Hannah Lee

Hannah's stork

We are so happy to be home with our baby girl!  She is just precious and such a sweet baby!!  Austin's mom stayed with us until today and she's coming back next week and is such a HUGE help!  It's been a great first week!

Hannah Is Here! Part 2

After we said goodbye to our families we headed to the operating room and they wheeled me into what I think is the brightest room I've ever been in in my life and Austin had to wait out in the hall while they prepped me.  Austin got this picture of me inside the operating room while he waited outside.  I don't know about other people's experiences but I wasn't expecting the c-section to be so FAST!  I was back into my hospital room about 45 minutes after they wheeled me out of there.    

The 1st time I heard our baby girl cry!  

She wasn't too happy at first.  I was able to see her for just a minute before Austin got to take her back to our room to meet the family!  I joined them a little while later after they stitched me back up.

You think he's a proud Daddy?! 

Baby girls footprints on her Daddy's scrubs

Aunt Rachel meeting her niece!

CiCi was so excited! 

Daddy, CiCi and Hannah

Hannah and her Lainey

Aunt Tracy and Hannah meeting!

She is an old pro at this now, Haley was two weeks old the day Hannah was born!

Pops meeting Hannah

The grandpas with their new granddaughter  

Grandpa checking her out!

Lainey and Hannah having a chat

First time I finally got to hold sweet Hannah!  It was a while before I could hold her because I was NUMB!  I couldn't feel my hands, I hated it!  One funny thing about my hands was that while we were in the operating room I could move them but I couldn't really feel them or control them too well.  I lifted my arm up to touch Hannah for the 1st time and I whacked myself in the face with my out of control hand!  It was pretty funny.  So, I was scared to hold her and I think it was at least an hour before I even attempted to.  I remember thinking about our classes and books and how they all say to bond with your baby right away and do skin-to-skin with her but that wasn't happening in our situation.  Trust me, we've bonded since.  No one can comfort her like her Mommy.  I love it.  :)  Things are so foggy about this day but I specifically remember being in the operating room right after she was born and she was just crying so loudly and then Austin brought her over to meet me and she just stopped instantly, was calmed and stared at me.  She knew who I was as soon as I said her name!  I think she was thinking "Mommy!  There you are!" :)

Aunt Tracy and Lainey checking out sweet baby girl

The Autrey girls with the newest edition! 

First family picture!

Love

Beth couldn't wait to meet Miss Hannah!  

Me,  Hannah and my parents 

The Townsend crew

Sweetness

It was such a great day and I still can't believe she's here!  It was the most emotional/greatest day of my life and I'm just so happy to have her here and healthy.  

Next up, visitors and hospital stay!
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