11.14.2008
Still no baby..
I had my LAST OB appt. yesterday! My Dr. was quite shocked I even made it to the appt. She thought she would have seen me at the hospital first, but noooo...... Well this little guy weighed 7 lbs. 5 oz. as of yesterday. My Dr. said I was dialated to a 5 and 90% thinned out. WHAT?! Doesn't that sound like I should be in labor?? Well, I guess not..no contractions 5 minutes apart and no water breaking.. But on the upside, I have been enjoying my last couple uninterupted nights. Well, I am off to go do some jumping jacks. ;)
11.12.2008
Oprah's Against the Odds show...
My friend Brittany B. had this article and video on her blog and I just HAD to share it with you. You won't be able to stop the tears.
Against the Odds
Two months before he was born, Eliot was diagnosed with Trisomy 18—a genetic disorder with a very low survival rate. His parents, Matt and Ginny, began writing letters to him daily.
"Dear Eliot: Right now you are two months from being born," Matt wrote in one letter. "Doctors tell us that you won't likely make it to birth. Your mom and I are praying against that. We're praying for healing. We are praying for nothing less than a miracle. You're our first child, and the day of your birth couldn't come sooner."
Against the odds, Eliot survived his birth. "You are already a miracle to us," Matt wrote that day.
Every day that Eliot lived, he beat the odds. The median lifespan for children with Trisomy 18 is just five to 15 days—but Eliot just kept on surviving.
Matt and Ginny's letters to their infant son continued for 99 precious days. They turned their letters and literally thousands of photos of Eliot into a video that has now been seen nearly a million times on YouTube.
Matt and Ginny join Oprah and Celine from their living room in Fayetteville, Arkansas. And they have some big news—they are expecting another baby!
Matt says their tribute to Eliot started as a blog, which they used to keep friends and family updated on his status even before he was born. "Once he was here, we just took a lot of pictures and took a lot of video, and we knew we wanted to put that together in some way to tell the story of his life."
"We knew from day to day that we had that day," Ginny says. "I would tell Matt a lot: 'I'll be sad later. I'm going to enjoy every second now.' So even though his diagnosis never changed, we just decided we were going to enjoy every second that we had."
Celine is moved by that idea. "Life imposes things on you that you can't control, but you still have the choice of how you're going to live through this," she says. "Once you know the diagnosis and it's not good, then you make the best of it."
"We celebrate you," Oprah says. "What an inspiration your family has been to the world."
Be sure to pause my music below. :)
Against the Odds
Two months before he was born, Eliot was diagnosed with Trisomy 18—a genetic disorder with a very low survival rate. His parents, Matt and Ginny, began writing letters to him daily.
"Dear Eliot: Right now you are two months from being born," Matt wrote in one letter. "Doctors tell us that you won't likely make it to birth. Your mom and I are praying against that. We're praying for healing. We are praying for nothing less than a miracle. You're our first child, and the day of your birth couldn't come sooner."
Against the odds, Eliot survived his birth. "You are already a miracle to us," Matt wrote that day.
Every day that Eliot lived, he beat the odds. The median lifespan for children with Trisomy 18 is just five to 15 days—but Eliot just kept on surviving.
Matt and Ginny's letters to their infant son continued for 99 precious days. They turned their letters and literally thousands of photos of Eliot into a video that has now been seen nearly a million times on YouTube.
Matt and Ginny join Oprah and Celine from their living room in Fayetteville, Arkansas. And they have some big news—they are expecting another baby!
Matt says their tribute to Eliot started as a blog, which they used to keep friends and family updated on his status even before he was born. "Once he was here, we just took a lot of pictures and took a lot of video, and we knew we wanted to put that together in some way to tell the story of his life."
"We knew from day to day that we had that day," Ginny says. "I would tell Matt a lot: 'I'll be sad later. I'm going to enjoy every second now.' So even though his diagnosis never changed, we just decided we were going to enjoy every second that we had."
Celine is moved by that idea. "Life imposes things on you that you can't control, but you still have the choice of how you're going to live through this," she says. "Once you know the diagnosis and it's not good, then you make the best of it."
"We celebrate you," Oprah says. "What an inspiration your family has been to the world."
Be sure to pause my music below. :)
11.11.2008
That's it..
My friend Brittany who was due with her baby girl a day after me had her baby late Sunday night. So, that's it..I am going for a jog right now! I am so jealous but mostly VERY HAPPY for her and her GORGEOUS new baby!! Congrats Britt and Adam! :O)
11.10.2008
a LiTtLe LaTe...
Rhonda made this photo collage from Cambria's Halloween party, and I thought I would steal it for my blog! :O) Thanks Rhonda! And thanks Cam for throwing such a FANTASTIC party! It was a blast!
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