The Grand Finale....Isabelle Faith Gacnik

Well, she's here. Ms. Isabelle Faith Gacnik made her bold debut almost 4 weeks early and it's nothing short of a miracle the way everything played out. After a day of Braxton hicks, I spoke with the dr. and went to the hospital for some monitoring. About 45 min. after we arrived, I thought my water broke. In reality, I experienced a placenta abruption...the tearing of the placenta from the uterus...this sparked an emergency C-section (truly she was delivered in about 5 min). Isabelle was taken immediately to NICU and I was worked on and then moved to ICU. The abruption caused a series of challenges including the loss of about 3/5 of my blood volume. Talk about being in the right place at the right time. We are all very thankful to both be here. We both came home from the hospital 7 days after her birth. I like to say she took the line, "grand finale baby" to the extreme and could have made a less dramatic entrance. ha! Overall, she is a very laid back baby. Sleeps 3-3.5 hours between feedings, eats, burps, fills her pants, and then repeats the cycle. Her siblings are in awe of her and literally fought over holding her early on. They sure love "testing" her toys. She was born a premie at 8 lb. 6 oz.....correct, tipping the scales for NICU babies. She's now at 9 lb. 1 oz and doing great. We all say someone was looking out for us that day and during our time in the hospital. I was never so impressed by hospital staff or the skills and calmness medical personnel have to act under pressure. Without further delay, here are a few pics....