The day finally comes!

We welcomed our second beautiful baby girl into this world at 7:23pm on June 21st 2011. We had our struggles even with this.

I woke at about 2 am. Usually Lilybear was pretty active at that time, but something felt off. I didn't feel her move more than 8 times or so in a few hours. I was concerned, and so woke my husband (whom I will refer to as DH - Dear Husband going for ward), and we got my parents to look after Peanut (our daughter - 3 yrs old). We headed into L&D for a non stress test. After three hours, they were not happy with the results, so asked me to come back in again later that afternoon to try again. There was a good heartbeat, just not a lot of movement. We went home, and I laid down to try and get some sleep. My water broke around lunch time, and I started to have contractions that were not very severe, and were all over the place for timing. I called L&D again to see if they wanted us back in straight away, and they asked what color the amniotic fluid was. Good question I thought and I looked. . . green? That can't be good. Meconium in the fluid. . . and they asked me to come in as quick as I could so they could assess the situation.

I won't give you all the gory details, but there sure were a lot of people in that delivery room. I had an OBGYN, and two nurses for me, and our Pediatric specialist (for the clubfoot, she was born with Bilateral Clubfoot (meaning both feet were affected), Two or three nurses from NICU, (including my wonderful Auntie Anne  who stayed for a double shift to look after Lilybear for me :) and a respiratory therapist for the potential Meconium Aspiration. Clubfoot, risk of infections, and a "leaky lung." I got to hold my baby for all of 3 seconds, and they had to take her up to NICU. Flash backs to the birth of our precious peanut. . .who also was in NICU for a week for a partially collapsed lung and infection. 

When I finally got to see Lilybear again, she was hooked up to oxygen, heart monitors, and wires everywhere and in an isolette.  All I could think about was how beautiful she was. Her feet didn't look  near as bad as those pictures online. . . She was perfect!