She's Here!

Adrianna Joyce Howe arrived at 1:15 A.M. November 27, 2009. She weighed 7 lbs 2 oz and was 20.75 inches long.

She had two knots in her umbilical cord and it was wrapped around her neck and chest. She had a pretty rough go of it and was very purple when she came out. She pinked up pretty quickly so we thought we were in the clear.Her breathing became shallow and her heart rate was too high so they took her to the NICU to monitor her and give her some oxygen.After a few hours they brought her back to our room and she seemed to be doing fine. I went to my parents' house where the older kids were staying so I could help take care of them. When I was loading them up to go to Lesley's parents' house to see their cousins, Lesley called me to tell me they were taking her back to the NICU because she has a bacteria infection and that they needed to do a spinal tap to test for meningitis. What? Could this year get any worse? I dropped the kids off at their nana & papa's house and rushed to the hospital. I had my dad meet me there and we gave Adrianna a priesthood blessing. During the blessing I knew that everything would be OK. Here's a shot of her under her oxygen hood in the NICU. Lesley affectionately calls it the "Tupperware bowl".

The test results came back and she does not have meningitis. Woohoo! She does have to stay in the NICU for 8 more days while she finishes her round of antibiotics. This next week is going to very long. Her siblings are all very anxious for her to come home so they can play with her. Parkin hugged my laptop when I showed him the following video.