A few posts back I made it known that Misty and I were expecting another baby and this time a girl. This is our 8th child and only our second girl. Matilda Lee was born at 11:50am on December 26th, 2011 at Crockett Hospital in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. She weighed 7lbs 12ozs and was 19 inches long. I had thought Louie was going to go through being a brown headed kid but this time I swear we finally have one with truly brown hair.
The pregnancy seemed to go very well considering all the H/E double hockey sticks her last pregnancy tried to be. Knowing what had caused the problem with Louie's time in the womb Misty was able to stay ahead of possible issues with Matilda's time in there.
Our time in the hospital was quite different this time. One factor had to be the day being one after Christmas. Another factor had to be that we were in the hospital with Matilda only 24 hours after she was born. Misty's aunt and uncle showed up there not 2 minutes after Matilda was born. They took a number of pictures and celebrated her birth with us. After they left that was it as no one else showed up. That was really unusual. I am sure my mother would have been there but she spent all the days around the time of her birth with a pretty strong cold. It turns out to be just alright though. We never complained because it was great having just the three of us there 'chilling out' for a day preparing to get Matilda home to all the hugs and kisses she is due. We have had a number of folks come by the house for a visit. Some brought food which is a great blessing...all of it good food too....
Matilda spent the first few days here adjusting to life on the outside and the last couple nights she has managed to sleep most of the night. She's just doing things pretty much in the tradition of all our kids. There's nights along the way when things don't go so well but all in all it looks like we got another fantastic kid joining the family.
We are all so happy to have Matilda but we are also very sad that Papa isn't here to hold her too. Papa wasn't always so supportive of us having so many kids but by the time we had our 6th he seemed to have changed his mind. This go'round he often brought up how excited he was to know he had a grand daughter on the way and he could hardly wait to hold her. It is heartbreaking for certain but we must carry on and having Matilda here is a huge step for us and our understanding of life and it's purpose.
Below I am posting a link to a photo album of Matilda's and will be adding to it over time. For updates all you have to do is come back here and click on the link and you will be able to see her grow a little. You may have to copy/paste the link in your browser.
-Enjoy
http://s1125.photobucket.com/albums/l586/pbunyon2002/Matilda/
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