Dedication Day

Last Sunday we had Analise dedicated at church and had the opportunity to have my parents, sister and nephews come and play for the weekend. So here is a few pictures of our weekend fun. I am getting ready to head back to work this next week and not looking forward to it at all. I have really enjoyed staying home and getting to play every day. Analise is 6 weeks old now and starting to smile, talk, and laugh a lot, she is really an easy baby to please and still is sleeping great with the exception of two nights but she did have a bit of congestion going on also. She has also learned how to become the poop explosion queen, we have gotten the bathtub many times, changing table, wall, and the new clean diaper before it was all the way attached :o) If this continues we might have to post some pictures of our new talent.

2 Weeks already

Wow two weeks have already gone by and life has really changed. Analise had a bit of a scare with some incredibly high jaundice levels so spent 8 days in a bili blue light bed 24/7. She was only allowed out for a quick feeding, diaper change and our daily hospital visit for yet another blood draw. We survived these long days and nights although I admit I nearly had a breakdown everyday knowing I was taking her to the hospital each day were she would be poked by yet another needle.

At our two week checkup she was almost back to birth weight weighing in at 9lbs 3oz and had already grown 2 inches to be 22 3/4 now. Yep, I think she is taking after her daddy and new name will be string bean :o) I was wondering how she had outgrown so many of her clothes already we are into 3-6 months for the length in things with feet. Another trait we have found to be just like daddy is our hair, our rather uncontrolled hair. No matter how much you paste it down her it always pops right back up.

Analise Grace St. John

Well this is only a few weeks late but Analise was finally born on Thursday night September 17 2009 at 702 pm. She was 9lbs 4 oz and 20 3/4 inches. We were admitted to the hospital early Tuesday morning due to my blood sugars going too high and Analise was starting to show some distress from this happening. The plan was to induce labor and have a baby that day. Well apparently my body decided to take the hard route once again. No matter what they tried to induce it did not work. All the medications would produce lovely, perfect contractions for a few hours then just stop no matter how much they increased the medications. Needless to say Jesse and I had much fun during the three days we had so many doctors racking their brains trying to figure out how to get the baby out without doing a c-section. We had finally decided to go for a c-section instead on Thursday afternoon as I was getting a little worn out from being in having contractions every 3-5 mins day and night. But then Analise decided to surprise us and arrived 3 hours after that. So the whole experience was not fun but well worth it when we saw her.

We had known that she would have some complications from the diabetes and prior ultrasounds so were not surprised when she was whisked away. They had to pump out her stomach to place a feeding tube in order to stabilize her blood sugars, and had to draw blood every 30 mins to test her levels. She was and still is a real trooper though. Even now when we have to do sugar and jaundice checks she hardly cries. We got to leave the hospital on Saturday afternoon and come home to my parents help for the weekend. Grandma got to rock, bathe, feed and spoil her new granddaughter while Grandpa installed a pellet stove and I got a much needed nap :o)