It' a girl - Molly has arrived!

Of course all of you know this already but Molly Claire Robinson made her first appearance in this world at 9:54pm on Monday, January 18th, 2010. She weighed 7 lb 15oz and was 20.5 inches long. She was born at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, VA. We are so happy with her! I will post more about her birth story soon. I wrote it all down the day after to remember and need to translate it to the computer.

In the meantime, I will post an update on what we have been up to since she was born. It has been a very crazy first week but we are so happy with Molly and so happy that she is doing so well and gaining weight and are finding out we think she might be a mellow baby (being poked and prodded with needles can't help that, but she is really getting used to it, breaks my heart).

Since Thursday, 1/21, Molly and Marty and I are living at INOVA Fairfax Hospital for Children. Molly went to her first pediatrician appointment on Thursday (day after we got back from the first hospital). She had a fever of 103.7 and we rushed to INOVA Fairfax and checked in. They had a room waiting for us. We were freaked. She got a spinal tap, tons of blood taken, IV put in and we've been here ever since. She is doing GREAT now though. Within 12 hours, the fever was gone. She was severely dehydrated with high sodium levels that had to be brought down slowly, but now she is all hydrated and is a breastfeeding MACHINE!

So they are running tons of tests and cultures to see what caused the fever, but realistically nothing has come back positive so we might never know. So far everything has come back negative. Her birth weight is back and then some and all the doctors and nurses are pleased with her progress and health. I am actually kind of enjoying being here in a very strange way. She gets checked every few hours by nurses, our practice's pediatrician and a resident pediatrician each day and we are learning alot. I made a daily appointment with the lactation consultant to come by and work with me (loving that) and we are getting baby tips from nurses nonstop. I know everything about IVs and baby heartrates and oxygen levels. Oh my!