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Update

Isaac is doing better, he gained an ounce yesterday and appears to be eating better.
He will be in the Special Care Nursery probably a few more days.
Heidi is doing great, she is able to stay in the hospital for free as long as the baby needs to be here. Hopefully by Wednesday they can come home.

The website is not letting me add pictures.
Sorry.

Ron

Sugar Baby

Isaac is still in the nursery, Heidi had a chance to breast and bottle feed him today.
His sugar levels are up which is good, he will remain in the nursery until he can keep his levels up without being on an IV.

Everything in your body runs off sugar, fat stores sugar. Isaac has zero fat on his body, thus it's very hard to maintain proper sugar levels. In order not burn any sugar Isaac is basically in an incubator. His body temperature is good with out the heat, but the incubator helps him not to burn off any sugar.

No telling what day he will come out of the nursery. We were hoping today but it sounds like it might be sometime next week.

Ron

Baby Update

I was a little short on the posting yesterday, sorry.

Baby is doing well, lungs and heart are strong. He is currently on an IV for low blood sugar but he seems to be doing better. He is also having a hard time keeping food down. He is currently in the "special" nursery, he will stay there until his sugar levels are consistent and he keeps food down. Hopefully he can get off the IV and into our room today.

Heidi is going well; she slept pretty much from surgery until this morning. She was feeling better this morning at about 5am. She hadn't seen the baby yet so the nurses helped her into a wheelchair and we went down to the nursery. Hopefully today Heidi will be up and moving around more.

If anyone would like to come to the hospital please call me first, right now only parents and grandparents are allowed in the nursery and Heidi will probably be sleeping and I know you don’t want to come just to see me.

Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers.

Ron

Our little guy

Isaac Liam Henion

4 lbs 5oz.

Born 1/28/09 12.30pm.

Heidi and Isaac are both doing well.

36 Weeks

36 weeks and counting, I can't believe we are so close now. Maybe even closer than we expected, from conversations from my doctors this week it sounds like it may be sooner than what we expected, as I stated in my last post. We are teetering between whether it is better to have the baby out and being fed or left in my tummy and trying to see if he will continue to grow. It is pretty much a waiting game now until my appointment Monday, which will check the amniotic fluid and the next Monday which will check his growth again. I have been doing NST's and his heart rate is great, so health wise he is doing good other than being a little small. Praise the Lord! Here are my last two weeks belly photos!

Check out our new glider! I am ready to rock our little monkey now!

Work threw Ron and I a little luncheon shower today, this is the cute cake Jennifer from my work made!

And who said Michigan isn't beautiful in the winter, Ron and I were driving to work the other morning and it was so cold it looked like the sun was on fire.

Here is what is going on with the baby this week

36 Weeks:Your baby is still packing on the pounds — at the rate of about an ounce a day. He now weighs almost 6 pounds like a crenshaw melon and is more than 18 1/2 inches long. He's shedding most of the downy covering of hair that covered his body as well as the vernix caseosa, the waxy substance that covered and protected his skin during his nine-month amniotic bath. Your baby swallows both of these substances, along with other secretions, resulting in a blackish mixture, called meconium, will form the contents of his first bowel movement. At the end of this week, your baby will be considered full-term. (Full-term is 37 to 42 weeks; babies born before 37 weeks are pre-term and those born after 42 are post-term.)

Dr. Appt

I had an appointment at my high risk doctor yesterday for what I thought would be my last appointment with them and also my last ultrasound. They did an ultrasound and found that our little boy has only grown a little over a pound in the last month, so he is only 4 lbs 7 ounces, and this is when he should be growing alot. So their concern is that he is not getting enough nutrients from me and therefore unable to grow at the rate he needs to be. So I may be a mommy before we expected. I am going to be continuing the non stress tests at my Metro doctor once a week and will also be having them once a week at my Spectrum High Risk doctor as well as an ultrasound to meausure the amniotic fluid which is also low right now. My thoughts were that you would want to keep him in the womb as long as we can to make sure he grows, but apparently that is not the case. I spoke with my doctor today, she wants me to take it easy as much as possible, so that may mean I will be done with work soon. So, please pray for our little one to grow, grow, grow! We know God has a plan and we just want him to be completely healthy, thanks for all of your prayers and support.

The Nursery, We are almost there!!

Well, we are finally getting there. After months of hard work the nursery is finally coming together :) I have a few last minute things I want to do, but I thought I would show you what we have done so far.

34 weeks

Another busy week gone by, I am 35 weeks. Here is my picture at 34 weeks.

The belly is out there now, no question I am pregnant :) I had a couple of showers in the last 2 weeks. I want to thank everyone who helped with those and for all the really nice gifts. Ron and I are blessed with really amazing people in our lives. Thanks to everyone for their thoughts and prayers also, this is a really exciting time for us. I can't believe it is down to less than a month!!

I had one shower at my mom's house. Here are a couple pictures.

My mom made this really cool diaper palm tree :) I love it!

My cake

All the girls in my family :) Love you girls!

My amazing mothers :)

My beautiful youth group girls!

My good friends Laura and Jill also threw me a shower, here a couple of pictures.

My diaper cake from Laura, so stinkin cute :)Me, Jill, Laura and Kelli. I LOVE YOU GIRLS!!

Here is whats going on with the baby this week

Week 34: Your baby now weighs about 4 3/4 pounds like your average cantaloupe and is almost 18 inches long. His fat layers — which will help regulate his body temperature once he's born — are filling him out, making him rounder. His skin is also smoother than ever. His central nervous system is maturing and his lungs are continuing to mature as well. If you've been nervous about preterm labor, you'll be happy to know that babies born between 34 and 37 weeks who have no other health problems generally do fine. They may need a short stay in the neonatal nursery and may have a few short-term health issues, but in the long run, they usually do as well as full-term babies.

33 Weeks

Sorry it has been so long since I posted actual belly pictures! My life has been crazy with the holidays. Here I am at 33 weeks, this picture was taken by Summer Osborn from SJO Photography, she is a family friend I have know since I was born and an amazing photographer who took our engagement, family and wedding photographs. Check out her blog to see some more of our maternity photos, they are amazing, thanks Summer! http://www.sjophotography.blogspot.com/ I also have it linked on my page. I have been feeling pretty well, and putting on weight like the doctor wanted :) This week has been busy with baby stuff, Monday we started birthing classes, Wednesday we had a breastfeeding class and yesterday I started my weekly non stress tests. I had to sit in a recliner for a half hour with a fetal heart monitor on my stomach to monitor the babies heart rate. It was amazing to just sit there relax, and listen to his heartbeat. What a beautiful blessing God has given us, I am getting so excited to meet our little monkey :)

We had a wonderful New Years, we spent the night with really good friends at Steven and Courtney's house. Here are a few pictures!!

Here is what was going on with the baby at 33 weeks, I am actually 34 weeks right now, but wanted to update you anyways. I will post pictures of 34 weeks soon :)

Week 33: This week your baby weighs a little over 4 pounds heft a pineapple, and has passed the 17-inch mark. He's rapidly losing that wrinkled, alien look and his skeleton is hardening. The bones in his skull aren't fused together, which allows them to move and slightly overlap, thus making it easier for him to fit through the birth canal. (The pressure on the head during birth is so intense that many babies are born with a cone head like appearance.)These bones don't entirely fuse until early adulthood, so they can grow as his brain and other tissue expands during infancy and childhood.