So Miss Mia gave mommy a full 4 days off work and just enough time to get a pre-natal massage but that is about it. She arrived on Monday, March 10 at 8:23am. She is a beautiful and very mellow baby which has been great.
Week number one was a doozy, I have to admit. Although we did not talk about this with many people, on day two Mia was mis-diagnosed with an illness that required her to take two medicines for the rest of her life and every time she would get sick she would be in serious risk of complications. After a very long week of adjusting to this reality, getting into the routine of administering medicine to a newborn, and thoughts of me never being able to return to work because she would not be able to go to daycare....we received a phone call a week after she was born....it was the specialist who diagnosed her saying that the rest of her blood tests had come back and in reality everything was actually ok. We had never been so relieved! So she is off medication and we are supposedly in the clear but she will continue to be checked as she ages just in case. So if we didn't seem ourselves last week that is why.
Week number two so far has been going very well because mommy, daddy, and Mia are much more relaxed given the news. Last night Sam and I got about 7 hours of sleep when you piece it all together so life is good. My mom has been here since last Monday night which has been an enormous help. And now she is working on putting up all of our art work which is making our house now feel more like home. My dad and grandparents come down for Easter on Friday of this week.
Below is a link to the most recent pictures of Mia: http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=qudqczd.50b4s77x&x=0&h=1&y=a5rmq
We will try to get more fancy with the blog like Fran :-) as we move forward but this is all I have time for now.
Week number one was a doozy, I have to admit. Although we did not talk about this with many people, on day two Mia was mis-diagnosed with an illness that required her to take two medicines for the rest of her life and every time she would get sick she would be in serious risk of complications. After a very long week of adjusting to this reality, getting into the routine of administering medicine to a newborn, and thoughts of me never being able to return to work because she would not be able to go to daycare....we received a phone call a week after she was born....it was the specialist who diagnosed her saying that the rest of her blood tests had come back and in reality everything was actually ok. We had never been so relieved! So she is off medication and we are supposedly in the clear but she will continue to be checked as she ages just in case. So if we didn't seem ourselves last week that is why.
Week number two so far has been going very well because mommy, daddy, and Mia are much more relaxed given the news. Last night Sam and I got about 7 hours of sleep when you piece it all together so life is good. My mom has been here since last Monday night which has been an enormous help. And now she is working on putting up all of our art work which is making our house now feel more like home. My dad and grandparents come down for Easter on Friday of this week.
Below is a link to the most recent pictures of Mia: http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=qudqczd.50b4s77x&x=0&h=1&y=a5rmq
We will try to get more fancy with the blog like Fran :-) as we move forward but this is all I have time for now.
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