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The Giggling Soccer Girl

Josh and I were kicking the soccer ball around in the backyard yesterday. Rebekah (who was watching from her swing) started to cry so Josh picked her up and let her join in. When Josh started chipping the ball into the air, Rebekah started to giggle. It was the cutest thing ever!!! 

Josh and I enjoyed her giggles a few minutes before I finally grabbed the camera. Though her giggles are good they are not nearly as strong or as long as when Josh first started kicking the ball. HOPE YOU ENJOY!

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Six Weeks

It is hard to believe that Rebekah is now six weeks old! We are so blessed that she is healthy and growing bigger and stronger each day. Last week she weighed in at a whopping 11lbs! This puts her in the 90 percentile for babies her age. An overachiever (and overeater) already :)

The last week or two have been so exciting for us first time parents. Rebekah has started holding her head up more, cooing, and best of all... smiling! It is amazing how a big gummy smile can cheer us up even when we're at our grumpiest and most exhausted. 

We love our little girl so much and we so blessed and amazed by God's beautiful creation!

 

Pictures of Rebekah

You can check out pictures of our growing girl at http://babyadams.shutterfly.com/

Pictures will be updated every week!

Baby Rebekah

As many of you know we have a new edition to our family. Little Rebekah Anne was born on March 17th (St. Patrick's Day). There was no kicking, screaming or crying when it comes to her birth. She was limp and not breathing well. During labor sometime she had apparently stooled inside Sarah complicating the delivery with what us medical folk call "meconium". At birth no stimulation is done in an attempt to allow the person recussitating the baby the opportunity to quickly intubate the baby and suction out that thick stool before the baby breathes. Just before Rebekah was to be intubated she took a huge deep breath of a mouth full of stool. Now this stool isn't full of bacteria and filth like an adult's would be, just primarily sloughed off cells and such that have accumulated in her bowels over her short life. When she did this she essentially plugged up many of her small airways with the stool. This caused her a great deal of difficulty with breathing. She was taken to the nursery where further assessment was made by the residents on duty and the staff pediatrician. The pediatrician was so concerned that he called and gave a heads up/got recommendations from the local neonatal intensive care unit. They decided to watch and see how she did on oxygen over the first few hours. Over these first few hours she had some difficulty but was slowly able to be weaned down on her oxygen (though she still required large percentages of oxygen). At this time she was started on antibiotics and blood cultures were drawn to evaluate for infection. Our little fighter continued to get better over the next 24 hours eventually not requiring any oxygen at all and finally on wednesday night her breathing had improved well enough that she didn't require continuous monitoring and could come to the room with us. She remained improved, blood cultures were negative, and on thursday evening we were able to take her home. Prior to discharge the pediatrician told us that someone was looking out for her because he hadn't seen many infants improve as quickly as she did. We thank the many of you out there who were praying for our little girl!

Since coming home Rebekah has been the sweetest thing. She is a happy child who loves to eat, sleep and look around the room. She doesn't cry much and is just a joy to have as a new edition to our family. From the pictures you can see that she already loves to smile. We look forward to keeping you all updated on our "wee one" (as Sarah's mother would say). I hope you enjoy the pictures, we should have some video up sometime soon.

Still no baby...

Just a quick update to let you know that there is still NO BABY!!! The due date (March 11th) has come and gone, but the baby seems quite content to stay where she is. I have been contracting on and off quite regularly but they are not coming any closer than 10 minutes apart. My mother and Josh have had me out walking (or more waddling) as much as I can but this little girl is stubborn :)

If she does not come this weekend I will be induced this Tuesday March 17th. It looks like we might have a St. Patty's Day baby!

Baby Harvey's Nursery

Okay... so maybe I went a little overboard with my video. But I got a new camcorder for Christmas and I had a little too much time on my hands tonight :) There are still a couple of additions still to be made to the nursery (i.e. wall decor, the baby...), but it is a HUGE transformation from what the room used to look like. Below the video you will find some pictures of what the room room used to look like. 

     

The room is 100x better with a fresh coat of paint and new carpet!