Saturday, June 2, 2012

Happy birthday kid

Day 1..... (Tom is doing the Blog for now while Casey is Resting)....

To say the least, the first day was a long stressful day. Not in a bad way, the opposite, a very good stress. It was a very emotional day, also a very physical day. Casey was taken into surgery around 9:40am for her C-section. I was there, all smocked up, sitting right next to her. At around 10:23am, Caroline Leigh was born!



After she was born, the nurses from the NICU took Caroline and I, down the hall to the NICU for further testing and observation, also Caroline's new home for the next couple months.


Casey was taken to recovery for a few hours, and I was standing bedside next to Caroline while she was evaluated. The nurses had to insert a feeding tube in her belly, and keep her on the sipap machine, but with room air.



Throughout the rest of the day, I was the go-between guy. I would go be with Caroline for awhile, then I would run to the other side of the Hospital to be with Casey, and to tell her all about our new little girl. Back and Forth all day long, taking visitors and Grand-parents to and from the NICU. All the nurses could say about Caroline was how well she was doing despite her premature age. She is a fighter.

Along with being a fighter, and I know she gets this from her mother, She is a lover... See picture below...........
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She held my hand her first day. I guess it was her way of saying thank you for all the prayers. So to all who read this, Thank you from Caroline!
More to come! Keep checking for new posts, We will be blogging about Caroline and Casey's progress, all the way until we take her home!