Time flies when you are having so much fun!
Ari is still so precious (of course)! She only sleeps 1-3 hours at a time, sometimes 4 hours at night if we are lucky. She loves taking walks in her stroller around the neighborhood. We love her little occasional smiles and feel as if she is starting to respond to us. Everyone she meets comments on her long beautiful fingers and feet. I know she does not get that wonderful trait from her mother, it must be the Nielsen genes in her. Maybe she will be tall! Of course she gets a lot of 'oh wow, she is just beautiful' comments too, which are always fun for Mom to hear. :)
We are coming up on 4 weeks this Saturday, which is unbelievable. She is already changing and it is so crazy to realize just how fast she will grow up. The story behind the C-section is that my placenta had started to calcify and wear down (I was a week overdue when she was born) and so it wasn't supplying her with enough oxygen to support her through a contraction. I had been admitted to the hospital on Friday night to start me on a drug to get me ready for the induction the next day. They had me all hooked up to the monitors and after even the smallest contraction (which was so small I couldn't really feel it) her little heart rate would drop. So we monitored this for about 8 hours before the doctor finally concluded there was a very slim chance, if any, that she would be able to handle a large contraction, so a C-section appeared to be the best and safest option for Ari.
That day I delivered her was such a flurry of activity and people that I really didn't have time to just sit and ponder what had happened, but in speaking with my mom later that day, she pointed out that had I started my labor on my own at home, there is a chance that something bad could have happened to Ari since I wouldn't have known the condition she was in and the outcome could have been very different from what it was. I can't stop thinking about how grateful I am that He saw fit to have things happen just perfectly and that we have modern medicine that can help us know more about the situation so we were able to have the best outcome possible! I feel very blessed. Prior to my delivery, I was trying some of the supposed tricks to get my labor started, I mentioned in a previous post the very long walk we took trying to speed things up. How glad I am that I didn't get my wish at that time. The Lord knows what is best for us and sometimes we have no idea when He is blessing us. I wonder how many times this happens and we never realize it. In this case, I was able to see a short time later the blessing that it was, but I am sure there have been many times where I haven't been able to see so clearly his hand in my life even though it was there. How blessed we are!
