Most of you know by now that early this morning Jaclyn went into labor and delivered via emergency c-section 2 beautiful baby girls. God, it seems, was not really jiving with Jaclyn's plans for an attempted VBAC. While we both would have really treasured a natural birth we do know that God knows better, even better than me if you can believe it :). As you may have noticed from the attachments, we have chosen names. We will try to keep Jaclyn's blog updated as often as possible. The blog address is http://losjuanhijos.blogspot.com/. For those eager to see the blog, I have to tell you it isn't updated yet and this is the blog update for now.
Jaclyn:
She is doing very well. She is recovering quickly and pretty much every metric for recovery is surpassing the schedule. She will leave either Tuesday or Wednesday.
Samantha Lilly:
Born at 3:09 am 1/31/10
Weight: 4 pounds 7 ounces
Length: 17 inches
Hannah Elizabeth:
Born at 3:10 am 1/31/10
Weight: 3 pounds 10 ounces
Length: 17.25 inches
Both babies are doing as well as can be expected for 7-8 week preemies. Both have had some respiratory distress but they are being treated. Both Mommy and Daddy have touched and talked to the girls, but we sadly cannot hold them yet. According to the NICU they are not "out of the woods" and until they are they cannot be held, it apparently messes with the vitals if they have not reached a certain level of stability. The other sad factor is that apparently only Mom, Dad, and the four grandparents are allowed to visit so sorry to everyone nearby who would like to visit the girls, and there is not even a window to see into the NICU. While I would like everyone to visit them during their stay, the first thing I'm going to work on is getting Alexandra to see her sisters because apparently thats not allowed.
To close this first update, please know that I slept for three hours last night, until about 1 am and I've been up since then. I have no doubt whatsoever that I have left very important people that mean a great deal to Me, Jaclyn, and our family off this email. Please forward this to anybody you think may be interested and to those people I am very sorry. The first update to the blog may be today or tomorrow depending on how things go.
All of you mean a great deal to us and we look forward to seeing all of you soon,
David, Jaclyn, Alexandra, Samantha, and Hannah
"We all 'Johnksons'" - Alexandra
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