We welcomed our 5th beautiful baby girl, Everly James Harrison, on August 7th !!
I went into the doctor because the bottoms of my feet and hands would not stop itching! Sounds silly but it was driving me crazy so i ended up calling my doctor just to make sure it wasn't something to be concerned about. They had me come in immediately to have it checked. This is the main symptom of something called Cholestasis. This can be very serious in pregnancy so my doctor admitted me to labor and delivery for some blood work and to monitor Everly. They could not induce until my blood work came back, if it was positive for Cholestasis we would do the csection right away. This disease has caused stillbirth after 37 weeks. We didn't want to take any chances so I was admitted for the weekend so they could monitor me and Everly until the results came back.
God was certainly in control and right after i was admitted, I started having contractions. I have had them off and on for a few weeks and was already dilated to 3 cm but these were way more intense. Around 11:15 I was at 5 cm so off to csection we went! It went so fast and Everly was born at 11:43 p.m. weighing 6 pds 3 ozs and 17 1/2 inches
She was considered premature because she was just short of 37 weeks. They decided to take her to the NICU because of a sound she was making when she took breaths. She was down there for an hour but did not have to be admitted! We were so thankful!
The brought her back up to us around 2 in the morning.
The next morning, Ramsey and Reese were so excited to hear there sister was here!!
The girls love that Everly holds their finger with her hand :)
Sweet cousins!!
A few weeks ago Ramsey and some friends decided to predict when Everly would be here.
Garland was our winner!!
Being a big sister is exhausting!
Reese wanted to help so I decided to try to pump her a little bottle.
It wasn't much but she was so excited and Everly sucked it down!
No more pictures please!!
Welcome to our family Everly!
You are so loved!!
I just love her birth story. I was telling it today and got all teary. God is the ultimate physician. The red tape around insurance companies is NO MATCH FOR HIM!!!
ReplyDeleteLove the family pic! So cute!
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