On October 17th, 2011 our lives changed forever. Ellie was born at 10:30 am, weighing 6 pounds 3 ounces, and 18.5 inches long. She was delivered via scheduled C-Section due to her being breech. The procedure went well, Ellie had a little labored breathing, but nothing that concerned the doctors too much. During the 4 day stay at the hospital, Ellie decided she didn't want anything to do with breastfeeding. After many, many failed attempts, and realizing Ellie was losing too much weight, we finally got concerned enough to switch the focus on just trying to get her to eat somehow. The third day in the hospital we were told to spoon feed her. After a full day of this, it was just too much, so we switched to the bottle. Ellie seemed to like that and everything was on track then.
There's not much I can say about our hospital visit. It was painful, but holding my beautiful little girl made it seem so easy. Shockingly, she slept quite a bit, even in the hospital she was a pretty easy going baby. I will always remember not wanting to fall asleep so I could hold her all night, and hold her I did! Daddy stayed with us the whole time and changed his first ever diaper and all the rest while I was recovering! We fell in love with Ellie the second we saw her. We have the most amazing, beautiful girl in the world, how blessed are we?
