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<\/a><\/p>\nI was so tired when I got there, and completely overwhelmed.<\/p>\n
And when I saw this tiny little baby I was terrified.\u00a0 She was soooo small.\u00a0 My boys were all so big at birth.\u00a0 And their births, because I had all c-sections, were a blur.<\/p>\n
But here I was meeting my new daughter for the first time, in a preemie unit.\u00a0 A total stranger.<\/p>\n
I carefully picked her up.<\/p>\n
Love<\/p>\n Feeding her a bottle was a nightmare.\u00a0 The bottle was so big (the tiny ready mades the hospital had)\u00a0 She barely ate anything, we had to keep track.\u00a0 She stayed in the hospital for a week.\u00a0 Her fave nurse and I would always chant to her “eat and grow, eat and grow”<\/p>\n And grow she did.<\/p>\n I could go on and on with pictures- but most of them have been moved off my laptop for safe keeping.\u00a0 Probably a good thing so I don’t have a super long post.<\/p>\n but just for fun, I took a couple quick shots of her when Blake got her out of her crib this morning- the hair, rock star.\u00a0 She seems to know today is a special day.\u00a0 The boys are so excited.<\/p>\n I know.\u00a0 It really hasn’t been a year, has it?? It has. Last year on this day we got a call from Jane, “I just took ___ in for her 36 week check-up and I think her water broke”.\u00a0 Eva was born a few hours later that Monday night.\u00a0 4 weeks early.\u00a0 5 lbs. 10 oz. All of a sudden there was a tiny cellphone picture in my email box, of a baby all connected to wires and oxygen.\u00a0 I wish I had saved that picture but somehow it got lost in the shuffle. I made a mad scramble to get kid coverage, pack a bag, and flew out to SLC by myself. By the time I got there on Wednesday,\u00a0 she was off the oxygen. I was so tired when I got there, and completely overwhelmed. And when I saw this tiny little baby I was terrified.\u00a0 She was soooo small.\u00a0 My boys were all so big at birth.\u00a0 And their births, because I had all c-sections, were a blur. But here I was meeting my new daughter for the first time, in a preemie unit.\u00a0 A total stranger. I carefully picked her up. Love Feeding her a bottle was a nightmare.\u00a0 The bottle was so big (the tiny ready mades the hospital had)\u00a0 She barely ate anything, we had to keep track.\u00a0 She stayed in the hospital for a week.\u00a0 Her fave nurse and I would always chant to her “eat and grow, eat and grow” And grow she did. When we got her out, Andy joined me in SLC.\u00a0 None of the clothes we had would fit.\u00a0 We had to try to find some preemie clothes I loved that little hairy forehead- it’s gone now. Back when her thighs were not jumbo variety. I could go on and on with pictures- but most of them have been moved off my laptop for safe keeping.\u00a0 Probably a good thing so I don’t have a super long post. but just for fun, I took a couple quick shots of her when Blake got her out of her crib this morning- the hair, rock star.\u00a0 She seems to know today is a special day.\u00a0 The boys are so excited. Better pictures to come I promise!\u00a0 I just wanted to get a quick post up.\u00a0 Let the birthday celebration begin!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-3193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-life","tag-happy-birthday-eva"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21288,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193\/revisions\/21288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>When we got her out, Andy joined me in SLC.\u00a0 None of the clothes we had would fit.\u00a0 We had to try to find some preemie clothes<\/p>\n<\/a>I loved that little hairy forehead- it’s gone now.<\/p>\n<\/a>Back when her thighs were not jumbo variety.<\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> Better pictures to come I promise!\u00a0 I just wanted to get a quick post up.\u00a0 Let the birthday celebration begin!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"