She's Here, She's Here!

Well the blessed event/day has come and each day after that has been better than the day before.  We have made it through the first week and are tackling the second a day at a time.  Friends and family told us to kiss sleep good bye and they weren’t kidding.  Some nights are better than the other and we think we are learning a little more with every sleepless night.  Overall she has been a dream.  She has already had her first doctor’s appointment and is gaining weight like she should.

The delivery went well and even though I had not originally planned on having a C Section, it went so smoothly, was the safest way to get her out, and was the quickest way for us to meet the little one.  Hannah stayed breech up until the last moment.  I remember when I was on the table, my doctor said “I love when they give me a foot”, two tugs and she was out.  I was relatively calm throughout the procedure, but when I heard her cry out for the first time, I was overwhelmed with astonishment.  I couldn’t believe that she was here; I couldn’t believe that she was ours.  Watching Clark hold her and bring her over to me is something that will stay with me the rest of my life. 

We have been a good team so far.  We have really been able to balance each other out.  Clark has some great intuition about why Hannah does some of the stuff that she does.  He has been a great help.  Some of the nights when she won’t go back to sleep after she eats, he’ll send me back to bed and he’ll rock her or hold her until she drifts back off to sleep.  With work, he has two weeks off and it has been such a blessing to have him home with us.

My parents were here for the delivery and stayed a few days after.  It was wonderful to have them stay with us.  They were able to keep Nixon and be our food and “forgotten items” shuttle from the house to the hospital.  They were both so excited to be there with us and to share in her arrival.

That’s all I can put together for now.  The ol brain isn’t working on full capacity yet, but wanted to get something down.

I have a bunch of pictures of Hannah to share, but I have watched too many Law & Order SVU episodes while I have been home to put them up on the web, and don’t trust Facebook not to sell her beautiful pictures to advertisers.  So if you want to see pictures, just email me and I’ll send you a photo album.

Thanks to everyone for your thoughts, prayers and encouragement.  Can’t wait for all of you to meet her!

Cheers,

Team McCarthy