Invisapeeps 2.0

Good luck Granny!!! Prayers for a smooth delivery and a healthy family!

I labor like your daughter. I contract but don't get regular on my own. Thankfully I have a wonderful doctor. When we get to the end and I start contracting he admits me and hooks me up to the Pitocin. He doesn't like his patients to get too worn out during labor, he knows we need the energy for the delivery. I'm sorry she is so tired. I'm glad they finally decided to help. Best of luck today dqm family!

I'm doing my best to go through everyone's albums and pick out the best pictures and so far I've picked three that kinda sum up the entire experience.

This one gets my heart.

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I know you can't see the baby in this photo but the look of love on her Uncle's face pretty much sums it all up.  And the look of pride on her Daddy's face...  Like here brother, look what I made.

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Here she is freshly bathed and content in her incubator.  She was very calm and everyone kept saying what a good calm baby she was but I don't think she's going to be calm.  If she's anything like her Mommy she's going to be a little spit fire.  I think she was just exhausted from being born LOL.  That was quite and ordeal.  As soon as she recovers she's going to be raising hell.  I'm sure of it.

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This is my other favorite.  It's not the clearest picture but it captures the moment perfectly.  She'd had her tests, her bath, been poked and prodded and tagged.  She'd been through quite an ordeal and she was a lil trooper through all of it.  She was really patient and her eyes kept moving around the room trying to figure out what was going on.  But then she found these two fingers and that was enough for her.  She put those fingers in her mouth and started sucking on them and she'd had enough of trying to figure out what was going on.  The eye lids drooped and she was content to be passed around the family.  It was heaven.

She is amazing! What a beautiful little girl!

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Thank you thank you thank you so much everyone for the congratulations and for the support during those days. I clearly wasn't handling it well and it really did help to be able to talk to the invisible people in my pocket for support. LOL

42, no. The baby was not ill. The problem was Mommy. She was in so much pain for so long that we were doing anything we could to make her comfortable. She'd say she was burning hot so we turned on the AC. Then she'd say she was freezing cold so we piled her with blankets.

Her blood pressure kept going up and up so they were trying to keep it dark and quite and cool in the room.

They were only using the incubator to keep the baby warm. They moved her to the rolling plexi glass basinet shortly.

They're home now and doing well. Unfortunately my younger girls haven't gotten to meet her yet because they had to come back home Sunday night in order to attend school Monday morning. :frown:

I know I'm mean. I would have allowed them to miss school but neither of them has shown me that they can afford it so... them's the breaks. Actions and consequenses and all that jazz.

We'll make a trip back down this weekend and take tons more pictures. I'd like to share some with Mommy and Baby together but all the one's I have so far are very intimate so I'm looking forward to getting some I can show my friends.

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 You are not mean, no way in hell would I take my kids out of school for a day just to see their neice, even if they were straight A students.

That said, I am glad your daughter and grand-daughter are doing well.

I keep looking at Hailey's face and wondering who the heck does she remind me of?

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She's certainly adorable.  There's no denying that but who the heck does she look like.  Then it hit me!

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Oh my that's large.  And funny as hell.  That nose and those eyes.  Yep she reminds me of Lilo!

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I like that one too but I'm going to take it down. I thinks it's one of the more personal moments. I like it because the baby has her eyes open. Most of the photos I've seen her eyes are shut.

My daughter is doing great. I wanted to go visit this weekend by my youngest got grounded which of course meant that I was grounded too. Funny how that works isn't it? She gets in trouble so -I- don't get to go out of town. :/

My husband and the other two girls went down to visit them and take pictures. Don't tell them I said this but they suck! Half the pictures were grainy or blurry and the videos were either of people's feet or three seconds long. LOL! This is why I am the picture taker in the family.

They were much better in their verbal descrptions than they were with physical evidence. They were very animated when they got home. My girls LOVE being Aunts. Mr. DQ says #1 is doing great. She's an awesome first time Mom. She's very relaxed and lets people hold the baby and even took her out today wih her Dad and sisters to go walking/ shopping.

The girls are enamored of her. They are impressed with how 'smart' and 'strong' she is. LOL! She must have picked up quite a few skills over the past six days LOL!

I asked them what she did that made her so smart and from what I gather, her most impressive trick is sticking her hands in her mouth. She's fairly good at it. It doesn't matter which hand either. It was reported that a few times she missed and poked herself in the eye but mostly she enjoys her hands and fingers and likes checking them out.

Her other trick that really impressed them is that she will try to look at whomever is speaking. She has a hard time opening her eyes wide enough and can't focus unless you are right in front of her but she turns her head towards sound and thus has been pronounced the smartest cutest baby ever by adoring Aunts.

I'm not sure where strong comes in for a person that weighs six pounds but I'll be sure to ask and report back on any amazing feats of strength.

OMG! The cuteness! She is beautiful!

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I know I already posted this pic but I wanted it in the baby stuff thread.   Oh my goodness that FACE!