Amelia Elizabeth Jones

So, as I shared in my previous post, we added a beautiful little girl to our family on January 11th, 2012. That day I was 36 weeks, 1 day. I woke up in the morning feeling some pressure as if she had 'dropped', and throughout the morning I was having spontaneous contractions in my back. I called Billy and had him come home from work, just in case. With him being an hour away, I didn't want to take any chances. Of course, as soon as he got home, my contractions seemed to stop. However, around 2 pm they started back up again. I will keep the details to myself, but a few things happened that made my contractions speed up quite a bit. Luckily, I had an appt with my OB that day at 4 pm, so I packed my bag just in case and we headed to the appt. Once I was there, I let the nurse know that I thought I was in labor. When my OB checked me, she told me that Amelia's head was very low and I was at 4 cm dilated. They did an ultrasound to make sure she was still head down, and told me that I could head to the hospital! We dropped Jackson off with some friends, and were back at the hospital within 10 minutes. My best friend Sarah met us there and I gave her full control of my camera. Once checked in and in triage, we discovered that I was completely dilated/effaced and I was ready to push. They rushed me into a delivery room, my OB ran over from her office, and within 30 minutes Amelia was born. We had checked into the hospital at 4:45 pm and she was born at 5:24. I was able to do the delivery all natural and without pain medication as I had hoped. Besides being tiny, she was perfectly healthy. However, she was born with something called an amniotic band on her right arm, right above her elbow. Basically, when in utero, a piece of the amniotic sac wrapped around her arm like a rubberband. In Amelia's case, her radial nerve was affected, so she doesn't have much control of her wrist at the moment.  We were referred to a plastic surgeon, who told us that they will have to perform a surgery when she is 4 months to 'release' the band, and in doing so and with physical therapy, she will have full use of her wrist.

Starting Over

Wow! My last post was titled 'It's been Awhile' and that was about how I had been slacking in keeping this blog updated. And that post was almost a year ago! Oops!

So i'm starting over. The past year has been a busy one. Billy and I found out that we were expecting a new addition, due in February of 2012. The pregnancy wasn't the easiest. When we went in for our 18 week ultrasound to find out the baby's gender, we learned that we had been pregnant with twins. Sadly, one of the babies had passed around week 14, due to a neural tube disorder known as anencephaly. We were sent to a perinatologist, where we learned that the twins shared a placenta, and we still had a 30% chance of losing our healthy baby girl. That was devastating to hear, but we had to keep thinking positively and just hope for the best. Luckily, my sweet Amelia was a fighter and she came to us on January 11th, 2012 at 36 weeks gestation. She was perfectly healthy, but small, weighing in at 4 pounds, 15 ounces and 18 1/2 inches.