After Kaylyn was born

Here you can see her IV on her right hand. And all her monitors.

Here she is under the lights (getting a diaper change). You can also see the IV in her arm--this time with a soft "board" to keep her from moving it.

Here is my baby girl all hooked up and under the lights.

You can see Kaylyn through the arm holes. Here she is sleeping waiting to see if we have to turn the lights back on or if she can do it on her own now.

Because of the IV and the monitors and the blood pressure cuff on her foot: we didn't both with clothes until we went to bring her home from the hospital. By then--she wasn't sure why we bothered. We just brought her home and stripped her--to have her sunbath.

After being born, they worked on getting my blood pressure down. And poor Kaylyn's sugars crashed. So she went on a IV. Then she had the jaundice and had to go under the lights. We would take her off, and it would go back up again. So we kept putting her back under the lights and back on the IV. She also had some digestive problems. She was gaggy, and would spit up formula even 3 hours after eating. So we nursed: one breast milk was less likly to be thrown up. But two, she gagged less by nursing, the nipples on the bottles just were to easy. So when I was released on Thursday and then at the last minute, Kaylyn's sugars crashed and her billy reuben went up--so she had to stay. So I stayed. Thursday night I slept on a doctor's couch. And I got 4 hours of sleep. I nursed every three hours. I got a little more sleep the next night. And they gave me a bed too. But I ended up sleeping more in the nursery--because I finally got to hold Kaylyn for more than just nursing. So I did. Plus my body didn't hurt quite as bad-another day away from the delivery. It was hard being there and not being a patient, but the staff at KGH was wonderful. And I have much to be grateful for. Saturday night at 5 pm, we started packing up and getting Kaylyn dressed. And Todd got to finally bring us home. We spent the night at my mom's house as a family--so my mom could take care of all us. She was wonderful. Then Sunday night, Todd's mom showed up. She has taken good care of us as well. She left we with a clean house and a freezer full of quick meals to help me with my first week on my own. And last night (Thursday night) she left for home as well. And then there were five.