The nurses were all so nice in the hospital and one of them that came to check on me in the early morning even knew some of my family from Pungo. She said that she couldn’t wait to announce it in church on Palm Sunday the next day that I had had the baby! The nurses nicknamed Annaliese “Peanut” in the hospital because she was so little and cute. She has such a beautiful complexion with skinny little legs and arms. Her legs are so skinny that she has extra skin that you can pull up around her knee caps. She seems to have big feet like her daddy and defined calf muscles that would explain all the kicking she did in the womb.
Today was spent with family coming in and out again. Aunt Loretta brought Annaliese her first palm from church so I formed it into a cross so that she could have it to keep. Aunt Erlinda and Lauren came over to bring a blanket to the baby that she made for her. Amber had to bring one of
our shower presents the car seat/stroller to us early since we needed it in order to leave the hospital. Eric and his dad left for a little while to get the car seat installed at the Fire Department (another thing that had been on my agenda to do on Spring Break). I stayed with family while they were gone. Our photographer came over as well to take a few pictues of the baby. I was so tired toward the end of the day I was practically falling asleep as people were talking to me. Dr. Lehman was the pediatrician on call. He did Annaliese’s first check-up. Everything checked out great except for one little concern with her hip. He called it a “crunchy hip.” He said that it typically happens in first born girls from the way they lay against the spine in the womb. He would continue to check it in the next couple of days and if need be would do an ultrasound to see if it needed any further attention. He didn’t seem too concerned and said that “if” something should need to be done it would simply be a harness she would have to wear around her diaper area to keep the hips in place until they grew properly. The strange thing is that my mother was born with a dislocated hip so of all the things that could be wrong with the baby for her to have a hip concern was ironic.
Mrs. Thames came and while she was there sewed up the “going home” outfit that was Eric’s. With Annaliese’s skinny little legs her Grammy had to make the elastic around the legs tighter to fit her.
Today was spent with family coming in and out again. Aunt Loretta brought Annaliese her first palm from church so I formed it into a cross so that she could have it to keep. Aunt Erlinda and Lauren came over to bring a blanket to the baby that she made for her. Amber had to bring one of
our shower presents the car seat/stroller to us early since we needed it in order to leave the hospital. Eric and his dad left for a little while to get the car seat installed at the Fire Department (another thing that had been on my agenda to do on Spring Break). I stayed with family while they were gone. Our photographer came over as well to take a few pictues of the baby. I was so tired toward the end of the day I was practically falling asleep as people were talking to me. Dr. Lehman was the pediatrician on call. He did Annaliese’s first check-up. Everything checked out great except for one little concern with her hip. He called it a “crunchy hip.” He said that it typically happens in first born girls from the way they lay against the spine in the womb. He would continue to check it in the next couple of days and if need be would do an ultrasound to see if it needed any further attention. He didn’t seem too concerned and said that “if” something should need to be done it would simply be a harness she would have to wear around her diaper area to keep the hips in place until they grew properly. The strange thing is that my mother was born with a dislocated hip so of all the things that could be wrong with the baby for her to have a hip concern was ironic.
Mrs. Thames came and while she was there sewed up the “going home” outfit that was Eric’s. With Annaliese’s skinny little legs her Grammy had to make the elastic around the legs tighter to fit her.
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