The first bit of drama...We found out several hours after Jessica was born that she broke her collar bone during delivery. She had been so mellow that we didn't even realize anything was wrong. When the pediatrician checked her out for the first time (she saw the pediatrician who was on call), he specifically checked her collar bone since she was such a big baby. Luckily, the dr said collar bones heal really well and he said it should be ok in 6-8 weeks. All we have to do is pin her sleeve across her chest so she can't move her arm up and down too much. Here are a couple of pictures of us that first day in the hospital, not long after Christopher met her for the first time:
The next day in the hospital, we had more drama. Jessica spit up, then choked and starting turning blue. It was totally scary!! We called the nurse and she rushed her down to the nursery. Matt went with her. Jessica was breathing again by the time they got down there. The dr decided to keep her in the NICU for several hours to monitor her and make sure she was ok. She was totally fine after that. (We were very impressed with the pediatrician who had been seeing her, so we decided to have him be her dr. He is an awesome pediatrician!) Now, at this point, the nurses were all joking that I gave birth to a total drama queen. Since we were both doing great by Tues evening, the doctors (my dr and Jessica's dr) said we would get to go home the next day (Wed July 18th). Going home Wednesday was not in the cards for us, though....This brings us to last bit of drama. I woke up Wed morning with a HORRIBLE rash on my butt. I apparently had some sort of allergic reaction to the pads they had me sitting on during labor (either that or it was the post-partum pads used after I had her or both, we're not really sure). I was itching so badly that I couldn't stand it! Pain I can handle, itching I can not. They paged my dr to come take a look. She prescribed some meds and a cream and decided she wanted to keep me over night to make sure that the meds were getting the rash under control. Luckily, the meds were working and I was feeling more comfortable the next day (the rash actually ended up taking a full 2 weeks to go away after it spread to my back and arms after I got home). Now all the nurses were joking that Jessica was a drama queen and now they could see where she got it--from me! Anyway, we got to go home on Thursday morning (July 19th, my original due date).
Matt took the following picture not long after we got home. He just thought it looked so funny with everyone sitting there taking pictures of Jessica.
The rest of these pictures were taken her first couple days at home (so she is not even a week old yet in the pictures). We are all amazed at how much hair she has. Christopher had hair, but not nearly this much hair!
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