Blessing Day Babies

I like looking at these two babies side by side. :)

Sorry these are not organized very well. I don't have time to figure out how right now.

Oops, I meant to put these pics that Bonnie took on here, but I forgot til now. Thanks Bon! I love 'em! Here's some of my favorites. :)

Annika 3 Months!!!

Annika is 3 months today! I can't believe it! She is such a happy baby and I love her so much! I can't remember how we lived without her. Nolan can't seem to get enough of her. He loves being a big brother and is ALWAYS giving her little kisses. I was showing Nolan some pictures of him when he was three months today. It's amazing how similar two babies can look. Here are a few pictures of Annika today.

Nolan's story

Nolan loves to tell his own versions of Diego and Dora. Here is one of them.

"Don't worry, big brother gotchya"

In the hospital when Annika started crying, Nolan would say, "Don't worry, big brother's gotchya."

Annika's first cry

When Annika was born it took the nurses a while to get her to start breathing. Not only did she have the cord wrapped around her neck twice, but she swallowed some amniotic fluid. In the video it shows them suctioning the fluid out of her mouth with a tube, but they also had to stick the tube down her throat to get the fluid all out. That's why her cry was so gurgly. I felt so helpless watching from the other table and it felt like forever til I got to hear her first cry.

So far everything has been running smoothly with this pregnancy. Up until today, my NSTs were looking great and there didn't appear to be any problems. Today my NST had about 5 minutes left, the nurse told me I already passed my accelerations and decelerations and everything looked great, we just needed to wait 5 more minutes. As soon as she left, I started to feel a little sick feeling and my ears starting ringing and had a hard time not passing out. Adam happened to be able to come with me this time, which I'm sure glad because I didn't have a nurse call button anywhere near me. I told him to go get the nurse back, I feel like I'm going to faint. It was very strange. It just came on suddenly and I couldn't just shake it off. So, the nurse came back and hooked me up to the oxygen (I love that stuff!) and that helped me, but a minute later, my problem affected the baby's heart rate, it started dropping into the 80s. So, after a bit, the baby's heart rate went up again, but after getting ahold of the doctor, they said they needed to monitor me another hour and a half or so to make sure it didn't do it again. If it did, we would possibly need to do a c-section to get the baby out. I tried not to be too nervous because I knew that certainly would not help. So, thankfully the heartrate didn't drop again and I was able to leave the hospital without a baby. :) The nurse thought what happened was the baby rolled over on a blood vessel which caused me to feel faint and lose oxygen, which of course affected the baby's heart rate a minute later.