Some new pictures of the Morell Family

Our little Princess!

Hailey Jo is such a great baby. She's got Daddy wrapped very tightly around her little finger.

The past week - things are going to be different

Last week I was blessed with a beautiful heathy baby. Even more than just having a baby...last week we became a family. Unfortunately we kind of had to go through a little bit of hell to get here.

Tuesday we started my labor at 6am. At 2am that night (Wednesday) after almost 20 hours of labor I finally asked for my epidural. I held off as long as I could because I heard that it could slow labor down but at that point I was sure we were getting close.

On Wednesday at 11am I had not progressed. It had been 30 hours so my doctor told me he would be performing a C section at noon.

What no one told me was that the longer you have the epidural line in the less effective it is. Let's just say I felt way too much of the C section. I'll spare you the details but at 12:23pm on Wednesday 2/25/09 Hailey Jo was born. She was 7 pounds 7 ounces and 20 inches long. Turns out that she would have been born via C section no matter what because her cord was wrapped around her neck. She wasn't in distress at all though and scored a 9 on her apgar.

Anyway...C section recovery sucked! I can't even describe the pain and I am not sure if it was worse because I didn't have all the anesthesia I was supposed to but all I have to say it that I have no idea who would want to have one of these. It was awful!My blood pressure never came down. In fact I heard probably the worst news in my life when the nurse walked in on Sunday morning (I should have been home and waking in my bed for 2 days already) and said "We think you may have had a heart attack". Okay I am 34 years old, I just had a baby, and here I am listening to someone tell me I may have had a heart attack.

I was transferred back to labor and delivery. At this point all the nurses on L&D and post pardum know me by name. I've been there for a week! I have to have a treatment to prevent seizures which also makes you feel like you've run a marathon and you have to pee every 45 minutes and the dry mouth! Anyway thank goodness for David. He stayed with me every night I was in the hospital and really helped me with Hailey.

The cardiologist put me on a couple of medications to bring down my BP and I have to start seeing him now. He said although there were a couple of hinkey things on the EKG and the cardiac enzymes it wasn't a heart attack and I just have to be really careful and start really being on top of myself. I have crappy genes!

I'm lucky...I have a new lease on life. I am thankful for all the things I have. I'm a pretty lucky girl.