Happy Father's Day!

Yesterday, we celebrated Ryan's first Father's Day. We visited with Ryan's dad on Saturday night and on Sunday my family came up for brunch. The rest of the day Ryan, Layla and I celebrated the big day together. We went to the driving range, (Layla and I sat in the air-conditioned car and watched as Layla is not supposed to be out in public with all the germs until after this Friday), took Layla for her first walk, ordered Applebee's to Go (thank you aunt Joan), and watched the US Open on TV. It was a nice, relaxing day with our favorite little girl.

Here are some pictures from our big day. Enjoy!

Layla in her too big newborn onesie. We tried to shrink it for her to wear on Father's day but it just didn't get small enough. Too cute!

Ryan and Layla enjoying their first Father's Day together.

Layla in her backup "I love Daddy" onesie. I added the headband so we all know she is a little girl :-)

Layla on her first walk.

And now just a couple of cute pictures :-)

Layla's first tummy time. I think we might need to work on this a little more! I don't think she is even on her tummy.

Layla in her little sunsuit this past weekend.

Layla's 1st Week

We are already approaching Layla's one week mark with us. The week has flown by and we are loving every moment with her. Sometimes we are just in awe that she is here and that she is all ours. We have been happy to share her with lots of visitors that have been coming by since we arrived home from the hospital.

Enjoy the pictures below-

Home Sweet Home

We arrived home this afternoon from the hospital with little Layla. She got a pretty good check from the pediatrician this morning although she had a low level of jaundice. It will be monitored this week to make sure it does not get worse. We are happy to be home although Ryan was a little sad to leave the snack room that was located right across from our hospital room :-)

On our way home!

The actual birth of Layla went very smoothly for me. I was induced at 6:00 on Thursday night and my body reacted much faster than the doctors anticipated with me only being at 37 weeks and having my first baby. Everything moved very quickly and all I can say is thank goodness for epidurals! I pushed for about 45 minutes and there was Layla in all of her wonderful screaming glory.

Of course Ryan was great throughout the entire hospital stay (I just changed my first diaper of Layla's about two hours ago). The nurse gave him this hospital shirt to wear for the delivery and then they stamped Layla's feet on the pocket for him after she was born.

By the way...do you think Layla looks a little like her daddy?

The next couple of days in the hospital flew by and I was really able to enjoy all of the guests that came and went and of course everything new about having a baby. I feel so lucky to feel so good...I hope I continue on the same track.

Layla swaddled up like a burrito on the changing table :-)

We are parents!!!

Kristin was induced last night at 6pm. Little Layla Rose Janisch finally entered the world at 3:36pm today(6-6-08). She was 19 inches long and weighed a healthy 5lb 13oz! Kristin did a phenomenal job and we are thrilled with our new baby girl. More details and photos will follow after a little sleep.

It is a go!

We just received the call from the doctor. The baby's lungs are developed and the inducing will start within hours. The doctors do not anticipate the birth will be the fastest process in the world (only 37 weeks along, not dialated at all, and my first baby) but we are going to give the regular birth a shot. This will probably be the last post from me until after the baby arrives so in the meantime... healthy and calming thoughts would be appreciated for our soon to be expanding family :-)

Ryan will update when there is news!

Waiting...

We just got back home from our morning appointment. The baby was not having a great day. Her body size percentiles went down from the 21st to the 10th percentile (she is in the 5lb range though!). All of her other numbers were on the very low end of average. With all of this info gathered, the doctor decided to go ahead with an amniocentesis to check for lung development (yes, the dreaded amnio I thought I had avoided). The amnio went fine, no complications, and was much less painful than I had anticipated.

Anyway, we are anxiously awaiting the results from the amnio. If the tests show that her little lungs are developed than we will be having a baby very shortly. If the tests show that her lungs are not developed then we continue with our appointments. The doctor is just making sure she will be able to breathe on her own once she makes her grand entrance into the outside world.

We will update soon with the results, but I wanted to put this info up to keep everyone posted.

Still Pregnant!

Sorry I did not update earlier in the day. Our Internet was not working and I could not get on to update from our appointment this morning.

The appointment with the high risk doctor went well this morning. The baby's amniotic fluid went up. It is still on the low end of the average, but as they like to say it is enough to keep me pregnant. All of her numbers looked much better today than on Friday. The doctor said it seemed like a different baby inside of me today. The ups and downs of this 3rd trimester are all thanks (they believe) to a placenta that just isn't up to par.

Later in the week we have our next test and Growth Doppler. Once again I am not to eat and the appointment was made for earlier in the day just in case the baby needs to be delivered. Ryan and I pretty much know by now that this means the baby will not be coming that day. Most likely, I will just be really hungry after the appointment and we'll have to stop at the closest fast food restaurant ASAP :-) We shall see and we will keep you updated.

Tonight we had our second appointment of the day with the regular doctor. I grew a cm and we have now made it to 37 weeks. The doctor was very excited by this number of weeks. I don't think she thought we would ever make it this far (neither did we!). We feel happy but exhausted from this day of appointments (and Ryan had to work in between there too!).

Have a good week and we will update in a few days.

Me posing before the appointment today just in case "this was it." Thanks Grandma Cathy for the swing behind me :-)