July 26, 2009

Lydia was born on July 24th at 1:03pm measuring 9 pounds 1 ounce and 21 inches. She appeared very healthy at birth and then began breathing rapidly. Lydia was sent to the NICU at St. Luke’s Hospital (where Melinda is currently) for chest x-rays and observation. After the chest x-ray the doctors recommended transferring her to Children's Mercy last night for observation since there might be a possible need for an emergency surgery. St. Luke’s is not set up for that type of service. Lydia was very stable for most of the day and is currently stable at Children's Mercy. She has a nasal cannula to provide forced room air into her lungs. A cat scan was conducted on Saturday and the doctors are writing up an evaluation and plan that they will share with us as soon as they can.

Melinda is recovering remarkably well and she was able to get a day passes to visit Lydia at Children's Mercy today. I was able to hold and visit Lydia in the morning and Melinda was able to hold Lydia for a few hours and was able to feed and bond with her finally. Both Grandma's are here and have been a huge help. Kyle has been running back and forth to the different hospitals and Melinda sent everybody home tonight to get a good night's rest, I went with no argument. We're all planning another trip to visit Lydia this morning. Please call Kyle's cell phone if you would like to visit us in the evening. 872-4495. We'll probably wait on visitors to see Lydia since we can only take one person at a time but we should be up for some socialization in the late afternoon or early evening.

Carter and Chloe are doing well and love their baby sister. Lydia is extremely sweet and snuggly. Our biggest need we are anticipating right now is just lining up a little help with Carter and Chloe. If anyone wants to come play with them, hang out during naptime at our house, or if someone wants to take one or both of them out somewhere, that would be amazing. That may be down the road if surgery is needed and such but please let us know if you would enjoy doing something like that sometime.

We continue to learn to be flexible and trust God. He is good and His love endures forever. Thank you for everyone's outpouring of love and for continuing to pray.