More pics from Emmaline's first 48 hours.

Baptist Hospital upgraded their newborn photo process

Baptist Hospital has definitely upgraded their newborn photo process. It used to be just a nurse with a digital camera that they would upload onto the Baptist website. Now they have a fancy service called Bella Baby. The photo shoot is free so we went ahead and did it. You can check out some pics of Emmaline on the Bella Baby website from the day after she was born.

• Go to: http://www.bellababyphotography.com/login
• The password is '0201emmalinekear'
• Only online until February 15th.

Emmaline is Here!

Emmaline Louise Kear
3:37am on 2-1-12
6 lbs 3 oz, 19.5 inches long

Mother and Baby are doing great!

Going to Labor and Delivery

We've moved to labor and delivery!!! Emmaline is coming. Tara is 4cm and 80%.

Revised Game Plan

Emmaline has not made her appearance yet. Tara was able to get some much needed sleep last night. She is much more rested today than she was yesterday. God knew what he was doing by not sending her into full blown labor yesterday. Silly us for thinking otherwise. We've recalibrated our expectations and our mindsets as of this morning and are just trusting that God knows what is best, even when we get impatient.

We just saw Dr. Wiedower and discussed our revised game plan since 2 days ago we all thought that we would have a baby in our arms by now. Tara is going to do a lot more activity today. Walk around, sit upright, squats, etc... ok maybe not squats. Since she has been on bed rest for a month even the walking around will be a big change. We'll see how that goes today. Tomorrow morning Dr. Wiedower will check her. Depending on how much progression she has had we might get go home. 

There is also a little bit of weather moving in this evening, so between that and increased activity we'll just see what happens.

Learning Patience

It is 1pm and still nothing major. Just waiting. Sometimes God has a funny sense of humor.

I just took Tara outside in the wheelchair for a Subway lunch date. It was nice to get her some sunshine. We'll see if sitting upright in the chair for a while does anything. 

In the meantime, we wait.