She's here!

Hannah Valentine was born on January 26, 2009 at 11:03 am. I know, I know, she was scheduled to come on January 29th, but she just could not wait! I woke up feeling crampy around 5:00 am but sent Kevin off to work figuring this was not the "real deal." Oh but an hour later, I knew it was the real deal and called Kevin right away!

We got to the hospital at 9:00 am and she was born (via C-Section) just 2 hours later! Here she is fresh out of the oven - all 8lbs 0.8 oz of her!



Then she had to go to the Intensive Care Nursery (ICN) because of pneumothorax in both lungs. See definition below...

"Spontaneous pneumothorax generally occurs during the first few breaths post-delivery and is asymptomatic. Symptoms of respiratory distress such as rapid breathing, nasal flaring, grunting with expiration, and cyanosis (blue coloration of the skin) may be present in some babies, but these symptoms usually respond to temporary oxygen supplementation with no long term consequences."

Hannah had the rapid breathing and grunting. Luckily receiving 100% oxygen for 2.5 days totally resolved the issue!

Here is Hannah (after I gave her a mohawk with all of her hair!!!) on Thursday morning after she was set free from the ICN and returned to me in my room (the marks on her cheeks are from the tape that was holding her oxygen in place):



Stay tuned for pictures of Hannah's first few days at home!