Nothing but LOVE....

We have had so many visitors stop by to meet Ms. P! Thank you to all of you for coming by to meet her and for all of the flowers, munchies, etc. She is so lucky to have all of you in her life!

Our first visitor...Jo meeting Ms. P

My mom's best friend Cleta meeting Ms. P!

All the way up from California to meet her!

Lindsay stopped by after a long weekend to meet her!

So glad she got to meet her...and there is Grayson!

Presley and Miller meeting!

Mr. Miller and me!

Jess, Miller, Presley and I!

Livi loving on Presley!

So glad you got to meet her!!
Drew's family came up!

Jules and Erik, Steve, Ash and Casey get your tushes over here so you can see her!! :) More pics to come as she is continuing to meet friends and family! Need to get down to Vancouver to meet the gang!! October perhaps...

One week old and counting....

One can truly never, ever have enough pictures of their baby! Drew and I don't know how many of the same picture we can have of her sleeping in the swing, chair, bassinett, in someone else's arms etc. It's like every moment, new move she does...must be captured! So be ready for TONS of pictures of Ms. Presley...

Sleeping Beauty

Presley and Nanny

Presley underneath her jungle gym

Presley at 1 week old

One week old...can't believe it's already been a week! She officially as of today is 11 days old. Was supposed to arrive 2 days ago and truly, not even supposed to be here yet. SO glad that she is!! We have been in and out of doctor's appointments ever since we got her home. She had a touch of jaundice when we left the hospital so we were to go to he doctors that 2 days later to see how her levels were. Thank goodness, we did as she had lost a whole pound and was down to 6 lbs 2 ounces. She was automatically put on formula as my colstrum just wasn't enough. You do what you need to do in order to have your baby gain wait...so formula it was for about 36 hours. My milk finally came in a couple days later and now she is only breastfed. We then were at the doctors about every other day checking her weight. She has made leaps and bounds and as of today is 6 lbs 11 ounces. Almost back to her birth weight. The doctor even said that most c-section babies lose more weight than natural birth doctors, so that was refreshing to hear as well. She is officially doing great! No more jaundice as well. So we are officially just packing on the lbs...and next doctor's appointment, 1 month!

Drew and Presley at her doctor's appointment today

As for me...I had my doctor's appointment to check on my incision and see how I'm healing. I checked out just great!! The nurse was in "ahh" of how well I'm getting around and how great my incision is healing. She said "you don't even look like you just had a baby!" I admit, that was great to hear! They did a fabulous job on the incision and it probably won't be all that noticeable once it heals. I truly would never recommend a c-section, but if one has to have one...it was a once amazing experience and I wouldn't take it back for anything. I have been healing great and doing fabulous!

We did have our photographer from our wedding, Rebecca come by when Presley was 5 days old to take newborn pictures. I am SO antsy to see them and get them back!! I think they are going to turn out just adorable. It was a task to get those pictures as the one time someone stops by she was wide awake and it's best to get those pictures when they are sleeping. So finally towards the end of the session she fell asleep and I think Rebecca got some amazing shots. Of course when it came to getting pictures of us three together, she got fussy and we had to stop. But I think there are some wonderful shots of Drew and her. Can't wait to see them!!

My next task is to get all the pictures of the visitors who have stopped by off of our camera and post them. Thank you to all of you who have stopped by to meet Ms. P and brought us flowers, munchies and tons of love! I'm excited for P to meet her Great Grandma on Wednesday as well as her Aunts and Second Cousins!!

Presley Raynn's arrival into the world!!!

I ended up staying at my parents house after the baby shower because I was just so tired. I woke up in the morning at 3:30am and was bleeding more than I ever had before. So I woke up my mom and off to the hospital we went. I kept calling Drew who was at home sleeping, texting him and calling but knew he was sleeping. I knew his alarm would be going off around 7am, so hopefully by then he would check his phone and call me back. His phone ended up being on mute (which he felt horrible about), so I had to send my brother over to wake him up. When my brother got here he had already checked his messages and was getting ready to head to the hospital. So after another ultrasound and bleeding the whole time while I was there..the doc came in and chatted with us. We could either go ahead and have her this day or wait it out for two weeks, continuing to bleed and be on bedrest. Drew and I discussed and thought that today would be the day we had here and it was safe for Presley to come out as she was 38 weeks on this day. It turned out being the best decision as my placenta was pretty much falling apart and it was good that we did it on this day. We were then scheduled for a 2:30pm c-section that day. We let everyone know that Presley would be arriving TODAY!! We were about to become parents withing hours, seconds....minutes and couldn't wait to meet her. Here are just some of the amazing pictures from her beautiful delivery!

Presley's arrival story...

Wednesday, August 17th I woke up and was bleeding, once again. So Drew and I took off to the hospital, thinking "this could be it!" After being there for numerous hours, they sent me home telling me that I am officially on bedrest and not allowed to do anything but get up to shower and go to the bathroom. Well, I had a baby shower already planned for that day at my parents house with all my family. I ventured down to my parents and had the baby shower...which was just amazing! Here are some pics from it...
A huge thank you to my sister, mom and Shira for putting this together! It was amazing to see the family and close family friends before we had her. Not knowing the next day, would be the next day. The joke at the baby shower was...have her come tomorrow. Little did we know, she would!!