THE BABY IS HERE!!!

For those who don't know, baby Foley 3 is here. We had a baby girl, "Ivee Isabell Foley." She was born on Monday, May 8th at Mobile Infirmary at 7:14 p.m. weighing 7 lbs, 20.5 inches. She had a ruff entry into the world though. When she was born, the cord was wrapped around her neck, and fortunately the doctor cut it quickly. In the process, though, she breathed in fluid in her lungs, and swollowed about 15 cc's, which had to be pumped from her stomach. I didn't get to hold her, cause she had to be sent straight to an oxygen "hood" cause her breathing and oxygen consumption were not so good. Over the next day, she continued to decline in breathing effort. She keep breathing to hard and heavy, and by Wednesday, she was worn out. She honestly scared her daddy and me. A doctor from USA Children's and Women's Hospital was called in at 3 am on Wednesday morning. By this time, her oxygen was bumped up to 60%. A few hours later at 6 am, another doctor from USA came and told Em and I that Ivee needed to be transfered to USA. So, the transfer unit came at 9 am and brought her by our room to say goodbye. That was the hardest thing I've been through so far in my life.
I was discharged from the Infirmary short of my 48 hours, so that I could go visit Ivee at USA. The Infirmary was very generous and gave me another room on the 5th floor to use as long as needed until Ivee went home.
To cut a long story short...Ivee was in the USA NICU for seven days. She had to be intibated and a feeding tube inserted down her throat. They gave her some surfactant to help ad in her breathing that Wednesday. By Thursday afternoon, she was able to go back under the oxygen hood, and when we came back in Friday morning, she was breathing on her own. (at this point, we still weren't able to hold her). When we came in Saturday morning, her night nurse said that he came over to her crib in the middle of the night, and she had yanked the feeding tube out of her stomach and riped the tape off of her face, with no crying at all, so he bottle feed her and she did fine. So, that Saturday, six days later, I finally got to hold her and feed her a bottle. She at this point was Jaundice and had to stay under a lamp until Monday night, and had antibiotics injected two times a day. She had an I.V. in every part of her body, hands, wrist, feet and in the end her head.
Tuesday morning Ethan had K5 graduation, and before we went to see him, we stopped by to see Ivee. We prayed she would be discharged this day, but her nurse said it would probably be Wednesday. Well, after Ethan's graduation, we called to check on her, and her nurse said she was ready to go home. Em and I cryed more in ten days than probably any other time in our lives...out of happiness, and fear, and dispair and pure joy. God was there completely through it all.
Well, that is our beginning journey with Ivee Foley. Visit www.bornatusa.com and click on May 8th, and Ivee Isabell F. and you can see her picture. I'll download more pics later for you to view of her journey. Thanks for the prayers.

Two more Days

Well, since the Foley '3' is not here yet, we are going in Monday, May 8th to the Mobile Infirmary. I have to be there at 6:00 a.m. and they'll start me on a drip at 8:00 a.m. So, the baby will be here Monday. I'm sure I'll post sometime later next week to tell everyone about the new boy/girl in our lives. Stay posted.