We're home!

Wow! I can hardly believe it. We are home with our beautiful baby girl! We have been waiting so long and now the time has finally arrived. Now we are all getting adjusted to life with a new baby. It has been an awesome couple days. Emma was a little jaundiced (yellow), so we had a bililight that she had to wear around her. We had blood drawn wed am and thurs am to check her levels. Thursdays level came back good, so we got to take the light off and we go to the doctor in the am to have her weight checked and so they can make sure she looks ok.
It has been a major adjustment for Kramer (the dog). He still isn't sure what to think of this little person we have brought home. He is very interested in her, but when we first brought her home and she would cry he would bark. What a noisy house we had! He doesn't bark too much anymore when she cries, but if she makes any noise he goes over and checks things out. He will still whimper if she is making noise, but he is getting better.
Well, she just ate and is sleeping, so that's my sign to go get a little sleep until she wakes up again in a couple hours...

Happy Birthday Emma!!

At 9:38 am on Sunday May 18, 2008 Heather and I were blessed with our little angel. Finally! She weighed 7.1 pounds and was 20.5 inches long. Both Mom and the baby are doing really well. Emma came to us with a wonderful set of pipes screaming her little heart out and we have something to look forward to for a very long time. Emma is expected to come home on Tuesday for her first encounter with Kramer. This ought to be interesting to see how the dog will deal with the new queen of the castle. Will post again later tonight as I'm off to see the girls at the hospital.

Almost here

Well, I went to the doctor today. Since I was due monday and still nothing is really going on I'm going to be induced on sat am at 9:00. We are both very excited, but I am a little nervous too. It's great to know that sometime this weekend we will have a baby here with us! Be sure to keep watching for pictures after she is born. We will get them up and posted as soon as possible so everyone can ohh and ahh...

Update

Well, I went to the doctor today. Not much happening. I'm dilated to 1, so she is clearly not in a hurry to join us. I guess she is nice and warm and comfortable where she is. I have another doctors appointment next week, but we are hoping that we don't make it that long. Everything else looks good. Her heart rate is in the 140's, my blood pressure is good, I'm not uncomfortable and I'm still able to do most anything I want, so we will wait and see.