Got Milk?

My mom sure does! Today she donated 3 gallons of her milk to a milk bank for babies that are less fortunate than me.

Where’s your mustache?

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2 weeks old!

By amy on April 3, 2008

Today Lance is two weeks old – hard to believe he’s already been here that long! A lot has changed in that short time.

Here he is just hours after birth – intubated and monitored, having caused a big ruckus and many lost hours of sleep.

And this is today – breathing fine, eating well and sweetly giving his parents a decent nights sleep.

The last few weeks have seen some changes in me as well:

Here I am about a week before Lance came.

And here I am today – baby safely on the outside of me!

It’s kind of funny to be skinny again – sometimes I’ll feel my stomach rumble and my hand will go to my tummy to feel the baby kicking. I also feel just as hungry as I did before having him…and sometimes just as tired. Amazing that I could be walking several miles the two days before delivery but it takes more than two weeks to gain back that ability afterwards! I’m just grateful that the Lord gave strength all through the stay at the hospital and good health to all of us. Life is good.

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Going home!!!

By amy on March 31, 2008

Lance came home from the hospital yesterday! We are soooo glad to be home as a family for the first time since he was born.

To give a brief update of the last several days, Lance was doing well and supposed to go home on Thursday. Wed. night they moved him from NICU to a regular room and the new monitors caused his vital signs to be misread and made him appear to relapse. This little incident put another 3 days onto our stay, and many other tests – all of which came out positive and proved that Lance was indeed a normal, healthy little boy – praise God!

Almost time to go! Amy was supposed to be recovering and not walking everywhere so she was assigned a wheelchair which Brian enjoyed pushing….

The nurse is taking off his IV after his last antibiotic – the last “line” to come off, making him totally ours!

Daddy gets Lance loaded in his car seat – we had to put it on the smallest setting.

Mommy is given her supply of milk. Since Lance was not allowed to eat the first few days, Amy got a head start and makes way more than he can eat! Brian has started to “moo” during feeding times.

We made it home yesterday evening. Brian was really sweet and unloaded everything, put things away and generally ran around being busy. I bathed Lance – which wasn’t his favorite activity – then Brian dressed him and played with him while I got ready. He fussed for a while at bedtime and Brian played dad again by holding him and finding his pacifier multiple times and keeping him quiet while I rested. We finally all settled down for the night and managed to get some sleep. We had a little play time this morning with Lance – he would scoot around on Brian’s chest and raise up his head. We both think he’s the cutest little thing in the world! Praise God for bringing us through the unexpected and for giving us a beautiful, perfect baby boy.

Thanks so much for your prayers while we were in the hospital. We are grateful to God for His healing hand on Lance’s lungs!

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Day in the life of Lance

By amy on March 24, 2008

Hi everyone! Life is getting better here at the hospital with several big happenings yesterday.

For starters, I got that awful tube out of my nose! I’m really happy about that!

Another big event was getting to eat for the first time – it was so good that I ate about half of it and then fell asleep. Wow, a full belly at last – yum!

I also had some important visitors – my daddy’s family. Grandpa and I share the name Jeffrey which makes me pretty proud. Nana thought I was the cutest thing ever and had so much fun holding me. My uncles really enjoyed me too – can’t wait until I can play with them!