New Arrival

Madelyn Caroline Weiland arrived at 9:39am on December 15th. She weighed 7lbs and 7oz. She was 20 1/2" long.
She has lots of blonde hair. For a family that doesn't have much hair, she got it all.

In the events of the day on the 15th, which now seem so long ago.....We arrived at the hospital a little after 7am. They took me immediately into pre-op.

It seemed fast, but we went into the OR a few after 9am. While I was getting my spinal tap done, Joe was waiting in the hallway for them to let him in....He almost passed out. They finally got me prep'd and ready for Joe to come in. As they were telling him what was going to happen, they were already under way. Within 5 minutes of them telling Joe what was going to happen, Madelyn was screaming. Joe stood up once as she was just as her head was coming out. Then he quickly sat down. Then he stood up again as she was nearly all the way out. Then he was at the warming bed and weight table as she was cleaned off. It was fast. We both cried......We went into recovery until about 11:45.

We had lots of visitors....in recovery and back in our room. I was upstairs in my room at noon. We got several flowers. First to arrive was from the Sundt Family. Soon the room was filled with flowers, plants and people.

She is a good baby. She only cried when she needed to eat or be changed. She was passed around the room like a football all day Monday. Tuesday had little less of a crowd and Wednesday, we had one visitor before we came home.



We left the hospital at 2pm on Wednesday. We arrived home to a warm and clean house thanks to Grandpa Smith. Joe and Grandpa settle Maddie and I in on the couch and proceeded to unload the car, go to the store and pick up prescriptions and food. Joe made dinner, started laundry and keep the house going. We had a tough night getting use to not having the nurses there to check on you, help you out nursing. But I had Joe and that was better than the nurse. We found that sleeping in our own bed the first night was hard. It was hard because, I couldn't move well and the bed didn't adjust with a button like in the hospital. But we managed.

Thursday night we all slept downstairs on the couch. It was a better night. I was able to move more and the couch was easier to get up and down when Maddie needed to be fed or changed. We will see how tonight goes.