Ellie

For Heather

Since Laura got her own pic, it only seemed fair for Heather to get her own as well.

Background: Portland Adventist Hospital has a camera in their front lobby that gets piped into channel 9 on all of the patient TVs in the hospital. It's great for watching to see when your visitors are coming or just for people watching in general (cause most folks don't know it's there). Well, when Heather, Melissa (Auntie 'Lissa) and Kristen came to visit the other night, we showed them channel 9 and they got a kick out of it. When they left the hospital, they put on a little dance routine for us...




And not to be out done, Lisa and Jenn and their kiddos followed suit with snow angels... on carpet. (Taking flash pictures of a TV is tricky business).

For Laura

Laura, in honor of your second place finish in the baby pool, this just seemed appropriate.


I know it looks violent, but in actuality, each time Lizzie has been incredibly gentle with Ellie. This picture is no different. It's just one of them optical illusions. :-)

And the winner is...

Maria Pacovsky!!!!

Sitting in prime position by correctly predicting the day of Ellie's birth, Maria beat out Laura with a PM guess, to Laura's AM guess. Special note of honor to Heather who ended up tying Laura, despite not correctly guessing the date.

Top 5

1. Maria - 85 points
   
2. Laura - 70 points
   
3. Heather - 70 points
   
4. Fogey - 65 points
   
5. Grandma H - 65 points

Maria, hope you like coffee! :-)

1st Pics!

1st picture of Ellie ever taken

A little closer up

Dec 3

Dec 3
5:18 pm
7 lbs 12 oz
20 inches long
dark brown hair
head and chest circumference - 13 inches
8 and 9 APGARs

Eliana Joy is here. Rather smooth delivery overall (especially compared to last time). Mom and baby are doing just fine. Ellie has already started trying to hold her head up!

We're home now. Got home about 10:30 this morning.

Pictures to come. Baby pool results to come. My early money is on Laura or Maria (who claims she has to win because she's blood). But Heather could also be a dark horse third place because here time was only one minute off... :-)

Laboring Over Labor

So, after last post Jeanna offered some suggestions for getting labor going and it occurred to me that there are a ton out there. Many of which I have yet to try...many of which I won't try, but I thought it might be fun to hear what things you all have tried or heard about and chose not to try. I don't promise I will do any of them, but I would love to hear all of the suggested ways to get labor going...as absurd as some may seem.

It is Wednesday

Well as you can see November 28th has come and gone and still no baby. Dr. Fisher has now scheduled (with our reluctant permission) an induction on December 7th at 5 am. Now our hope and prayer is that baby comes before that time. However, should we have to go through with the induction it will be done very different from last time and Dr. Fisher is convinced that nothing like the nightmare that took place before should occur. We will keep you posted. Thanks for your prayers.

Prayer Request

Everything is going well with Ellie and the final days of the pregnancy. Steph is progressing steadily, but slowly and it could be anyday now. We just wanted to ask for your prayers as Steph's due date (Dec. 2nd) approaches. Dr. Fisher let us know that going much past a week to 10 days past the due date is unsafe since the placenta begins to deteriorate and in some cases stops functioning all together leaving the baby without any of life's necessaries. This all means that should we get close to the due date, Steph will have to be scheduled to be induced. Sounds simple, but last time with Lizzie the induction went horribly wrong and we both vowed to never go there again, so this would be a very scary option for us (Steph especially). Our prayer request is that Ellie decides to come on her own before we even have to think about scheduling an induction. The next appointment is this Tues. Nov. 28th, at which time we will reevaluate.

Times Up!

Well thanks to everyone who put their guesses into the baby pool for Ellie. We will keep you posted as new info arrives and will of course post the winner, post the birth :-)
It has been lots of fun seeing everyone guesses as they have appeared these past few months. For Steph's sake we hope some of you are more accurate than others!
Thanks again.