Born: February 15, 2012
Time: 3:43 p.m.
Weight: 7 lbs. 7 oz.
I am sure most of you have allready met her or seen the gazillion photos we have posted of her, since this post is coming almost 4 months late.
Birth Story:
Ellery's due date was not until February 25th, 2012, however as we have found out this little girl does not wait on anyone! My entire pregnancy I struggled with kidney stones and on Monday February 13, I started having alot of pain in my lower right quadrant. I knew it wasn't contractions, but thougt it may be another stone or possibly appendicitis. I called my Ob and she told me the usual go to Labor and Delivery. We arrived, they admitted me, pumped fluids, did a catscan and found nothing! Not a surprise because stones don't always show up and they couldn't do an x-ray due to the safety of Ellery. The pain was still so severe so they kept me until late Tuesday when the pain still did not subside, which is unusual because the pain usually subsided after two bags of fluid which pushed the stone out. My Ob came in and said that because I was 37.5 weeks, they were going to go ahead and induce me the next morning and then we could further explore what/where the pain was coming from. So the doctor inserted a cervisil strip to help thin my uterus and get things prepped for the pitocin the next morning. Well things worked out well. They induced me at 6:00 a.m. on Wednesday Feb. 15th. At 6:00 I was not dialated but my uterus had started to thin. By 7:45 I was 5 centimeters dialated and in extreme pain. I had planned on going natural as far as I could, but with three days of severe pain, and then intense contractions that came I wasn't really eased into the contractions, they came hard, and they fast! Things slowed after that and about 1:30 or 2:00 I started to push. Little Ellery came quickly and quietly. Not a sound, which fits her to a "T" to this day. She came out content and quiet, just observing everything around her. Around 5:30, they took me to postpartum and from there the rest is history. My doctor came back the next day and asked if I had been having any pain, and I said that I hadn't. She stated that litlte Ms. Ellery was just eager to come out and was positioned in a way that put alot of pressure on my ureteur causing "kidney stone" like pain.
Ellery was fine the first day or two but when we were discharged on Friday, they noted her billirubin levels were elevated and we went to the doctor the next morning to have her checked. They sent us to the lab and I lost it! This was the first time I saw them do a billirubin test and my poor baby was screaming! They don't prepare you for this!
My poor little girl!
We got the results when we arrived home and they were elevated. They couldn't get us a billi blanket so they sent us off to Wake Med Raleigh. They admitted mommy (because I was breastfeeding) and Ellie and put her under a billi light and a billi blanket. Grandma and Daddy went home and came back the next morning. They checked her billi levels all night and they were dropping. So we were discharged. We spent the next week going back and forth to the doctor and lab getting her weight checked and billi levels checked. After a week, finally little Ellie's numbers were normal, but she wasn't gaining weight. I had to start supplementing her with formula because she wasn't getting enough milk.
We continued supplementing for three weeks and her weight finally started increasing but she still wasn't getting enough milk, so we switched her to formula. After trying every supplement out on the market, I just wasn't producing enough for my little girl. As much as I hated the idea of putting her on formula, I was getting frusterated and it wasn't making things easier and I wanted to do what was best for her.
We knew we had a fiesty litlte girl on our hands when she rolled over in her crib after one week. We knew it was somewhat of a fluke that she did, but something just told us she was ahead of her game! After a couple of weeks of real fussiness, because of constipation and pooping issues, which took us another two weeks to get under control. We finally saw our happy, content little girl.
We traveld to Michigan with her at 4 weeks old so she could meet her grandpa. She was such a great baby, she slept the entire time, except when she was wet or hungry! We spent two weeks in Michigan with family.
I finally returned to work after being at home for 8 weeks. What a blessing and joy that was (staying at home with her!)
Ellie continued to surprise us by smiling at 3 weeks old, rolling over at 10 weeks (from tummy to back) she HATES tummy time and to this day it's hard to keep her on her belly because she rolls right over to her back! She is so full of live laughing, and giglling, and cooing. One day we were driving in the car and I hear in the backseat "aahh.,daaa, baaa.....AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH.....aaahhh, baaaa, daaa......gggggg AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH! Little girl is finding her voice!
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