What a Wonderful Week

This has been a good week.  Not only are we in the last week of classes, but I have a new baby niece.  My sister-in-law went to the hospital on Monday to have her baby.  After sitting at the hospital all day and night Monday she still didn’t have her.  She finally delivered on Tuesday morning around 9:30.  She had quite a long labor; however, this was her first baby.  I know with my first it also took me 17 hours.  Sometimes your first can take a while.  Well I guess, it doesn’t matter how many you have they come when they are ready.  My sister had her 4^th baby and took her 24 hours.  It was miserable.  Anyway, my new niece is Allie Mae.  She ended up in the NICU Tuesday morning because she was having hard time breathing.  They said her lungs were not fully developed, even though she carried her baby to term.  She is on a ventilator and feeding tube.  My sister-in-law has had a hard time.  She left the hospital on Thursday without her baby.  The hospital was very generous though, and put her up in the Ronald McDonald house.  The baby seems to be doing better today.  They said she ripped her feeding tube out last night but is doing well without it because they are slowly trying to take her off her oxygen.  So far she is doing great with it!  I feel so bad for her.  I can relate.  I delivered my oldest son early.  He was in NICU for a while.  It is always hard when you deliver your baby and they take them away from you and without even being able to hold them.  We could not even touch him because it would excite him and make his oxygen level go way down.  I know that baby Allie was the same way.  Cox Hospital was also so great to us.  Children’s Miracle Network paid for us to stay in the Cox Hotel the whole time he was in the hospital.  Needless to say it is a wonderful organization and I donate any chance I can.  To make a long story short, I have a beautiful new niece and she is doing much better.  I am so anxious for her to come home so everyone can rest easy.  You might say a little prayer for her so she can recover soon.:)

On top of having a new baby in the family we got to hear the great news that they finally got Osama.  It has been a long 10 years, but we finally succeeded!