Isabelle Bentley

Jack & Izzie riding in the car together for the first time.  Izzie is the 2nd patient ever at the brand spanking new down syndrome clinic at UMass. It was their first day ever open. Wow. We found out she definitively does not have a clubbed foot. She just holds it weird. We need to stretch it out every day but d not need to cast it every week nor need braces. THANK GOD! And this is her at her 1st ever doctor appointment. She is back up to her birth weight. And her ear canals are big enough that the dr could see her eardrums. Lots of kids with down syndrome have hearing issues because their canals are too small. Her dr said she's very active - more active than most newborns. There is still a grade 2 bleed in her brain but it should go away soon. On a wicked annoying note - my csection wound half opened yesterday at the hospital because one of the stitches was stuck. So now every day for the next 6 weeks a visiting nurse has to come pack the w...

Welcome to life, Ms. Isabelle Susan Linda Bentley. Born 11/7/15 at 11:21p at UMass Memorial. Weighing 4lbs 5oz and measuring 17 inches exactly. So... she kicked Jack's butt by staying in for an extra 9 weeks... but still came 5 days early. I had been having braxton hicks on and off since 18 weeks. Very rarely did I have a real one. But I'd have 50 BH ones a day sometimes. Well a few days before today, I started having some back contractions. Not super painful but definitely different.  I went to bed around 7:00 (yes, I am a grandma). Around 8:30 I woke up and felt a really sharp pain in my cervix and had to pee. So I stood up and my water broke like a waterfall and wouldn't stop. So I screamed for Scott and told him we had to get to the hospital ASAP. I continued to gush the entire way. Gross. We got to labor & delivery and they hooked me up to monitors and tested the fluid. Baby was ok but definitely my water. So c-section was being done in the next hour.  The ...