Surprise!!!!

  As some of you may know our daughter Lillian Olivia was born on Sunday September 26 at 2:44pm and weighing in at 2lbs 7oz, and 15 inches long.  This was because her placenta was not providing her with enough blood to help her keep growing at the rate of my pregnancy.  We all expected her arrival around the 27th of November and no sooner.  But on Saturday the 25th of September  Aaron and I had gone to the fair and come home and relaxed.  But the whole day I was thinking to myself, " I really haven't felt my daughter move today?"  So by 10:30 pm. I was in bed trying to see if she would move for me.   I tried everything laying on my back and rubbing my belly in a circular motion, nothing, I laid on my left side,nothing, had my husband come up and talk to her and rub my belly and even played music for her, and still nothing.  So  at about 10:45 pm. Aaron and I where at the hospital and I was hooked to a baby monitor and they where monitoring her movements.  We were there all night into the next morning.  Aaron had to leave to go home and sleep for him to work at 10 on Sunday but by 7 or 8 o'clock  Dr.Berg the attending OB had seen enough to say that Lily had decreased her movements and they where unsure as to why she was doing so.  It was then she told me I was going to have to be Life Flighted with Medstar to Spokane to have a C-Section to get her out and able to get more of what she needed.    It was the scariest most life changing  4 hours in my entire life.  And what can I thank for all of this???   My 2nd ever Lamaze class.  The instructor Amber  who is a labor and delivery nurse at St. Joe's had told us to make sure and watch for babies movements and if we ever felt that they were not the same as there normal to go to the hospital and have it checked out.  So, I have Amber to thank for my daughter's life.  She actually happened to be the morning nurse at St. Joe's the morning all of this happened.  It was nice to have her there to explain all of what was going to happen to me and Lily.

    But for all that this is worth we are now approaching day 5 of Lillian Olivia's life in the outside world.    She is doing really well.  They don't have her on any oxygen, she has a pic-line in her that delivers all of her needed medicines right into her little body without the need for them to poke her with a new IV.  She is gaining weight and feeding on my breast milk.  She has started to have little bowel movements which are definitely due to the photo-therapy she receives to help with her liver function.  She does have a level 1 brain bleed but the Doctors here have assured us that they are monitoring it very carefully and it is very common with babies that are born this premature.  She is a little fighter and such a blessing for Aaron and I.