Hospital Pictures

Brother holding Baby sis #1 and #2

Kelton holding baby sis #1Kelton holding Baby sis #2

Everytime I take a picture it reminds me of Kelton with Grace. It is crazy to see how much he has grown up as well!

First time holding Fafie...as Grace calls her

First time holding Faify

The day before we could bring Faith home Gracie came down with a major cold. She had a way high fever and cough. So all of her first pics with baby sis she has a mask on. Poor girl. She would yell CHEESE...even though we couldnt see her smile :) Kelton has been the best big brother of baby sis number 2. He holds her every chance he gets and not just for a minute for like an hour. He did her first bath at home pretty much by himself. He also did Gracie's. We have the best kids!

Faith is coming HOME!

The last couple of days have been good news after good news! Sunday things took a turn for the better and we got to hold her for the first time. Then by Monday afternoon she got some of her tubes out. By Tuesday afternoon she had ALL of her tubes out!!! Then the count down began for her to continue eating well, ect for the next 48 hours. She has done so well and is like a real baby now. I still only get to hold her every 3 hours for only 30 minutes so I cant wait to get her home and I can hold MY baby as much as I want without having to ask someone, LOL. :) I am a little nervous to bring her home. It was way more comforting to be able to look up at the monitors and see her heart rate, oxygen, blood pressure were all doing good. Kelton and Grace got to come look at her through the window for the first time yesterday. She was in the most critical unit until Tuesday so there aren't any windows and then when she did move up to the other room we had to wait for all her tubes to come out. So it has been a long wait for brother and sister but they were so glad to look at her and cant wait to have her home. It has been a long wait for all of us! Thank you again to everyone for all your support and prayers. By last Saturday she was continually getting worse and her phenmonia was worse and then Sunday everything just turned around!!! I know it is from all of the love and support she has from all of you.

We love you,Max, Linds, Kelton, Grace, and baby Faith

Update on our Beautiful Baby Faith

So I cant sleep obviously and it takes too long to text so I thought I would just send an email update on my precious little girl. We are finally finding out just why this full term, fully developeed otherrwise healthy baby girl is having such a hard time. With c-section babies they dont get the chance to sqeeze the fluid out of their lungs like regular birth. So Faith had some fluid in her lungs. Right off the bat she wasn't getting it out on her own. We tease and say that she was being a little bit lazy (the little stinker.) So they took her to the NICU to work on getting it out and really thought it would just take a couple of hours But, it continually got worse that first night. So ever since then we take 1 step forward and 2 steps back which has been so confusing because she is this chunky full term baby. Well come to find out that the fluid in her lungs turned into phenmonia. So it takes a little longer to clear up. So as of right now she is still in the worst level of the NICU. I couldn't even touch or talk to her the first day I still cant hold her or stimulate her but she has been taking her bink so I get to put that in her mouth. She started to "root" and act hungry which was so exciting. Last night was the first time Max and I got to see her with her eye's open. It was the most beautiful thing being able to look into those eyes but they did lookso sad and sick.

So as of this morning her chest xrays look a little worse again. (another step back) so they are just going to keep doing what they already have been doing. It is so hard for me because I an see that she wants to eat and she is crying and acting so hungry and so it is killing me to not scoop her up and feed her. I wish she would just improve just a little bit so that I can try feeding her a little and then I think we would see major improvement but I guess right now it is just a waiting game. I did get to change two of her diapers last night. With all the cords and wires coming out of her it was a little nerve racking but so nice to be able to do that as well. It is a team effort between Max and I but we are getting through this together. Her daddy must have known that she needed to be called "Faith" for a reason.

I just have to say that through all of this I will never take the little things for granted anymore. Like changing a diaper or feeding your baby or toddler or even a 9 year old. It is so hard when those little things you yearn to do for your child as a mother is taken and there is nothing you can do to help.

Keep us in your prayers and lets pray that Faith will be a little better tomorrow so we can take the next step.

Love you guys,
Max, Linds, Kelton, Grace, and Faith

Faith Drew Philpot is HERE!

My precious little girl is here. She came by C-section on August 17 @ 10:45pm. She weighed 7lb 6 oz and is 20 inches long. For 3 weeks early that is a pretty big girl!

So Faiths' lungs weren't doing good right from the beginning. They did an xray and her lungs are fully developed and she is completely healthy otherwise. When you have a baby cesearean the fluid doesn't get pushed up out of their lungs sometimes like it does with a vaginal birth. So Faith was having a really hard time getting the fluid out on her own. Through the night she continually did worse. They tried everything in the NICU until they finally had to put her on a ventalator down into her lungs and completely have her sedated. So my precious little baby has an IV in her head and two in her abdomen, and the ventalator down her throat. I still haven't held her. Her little hand hung onto my finger for a little bit this morning but that is it. She is in very good hands and all we can do is pray that she will pull through this. She has her daddys' fight inside of her so I know she will pull through.

She is so goregous and looks so much like Grace but alot like her daddy too. Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers.

Remember anything is possible when you have FAITH

Almost There....

About Baby Faith...

So far she is doing so good. Heart Beat sounds great, she moves like crazy, and gets the hiccups all the time. She measures a week bigger than she is supposed too. We have everything ready to go which feels so good. Her daddy is doing a bit of "nesting" himself. I laugh though because he is all stressed that the garage needs to be cleaned or things like that, which has nothing to do with the baby but it is his way of nesting. So Cute!

It is a whole different ball game this time around. We dont have Kelt full time so it was still hard to make sure he was ok with another baby coming into the picture but it wasn't the same as it is with Grace this time. Our poor little Grace doesn't know what to think the last couple of weeks. She has been so excited but has definitely started showing signs of jealously. She tells me she isn't a big girl anymore and she is still a baby :( I just want to make everything as easy on her as possible so I tend to stress about that alot. I am worried about being away from her while I am in the hospital. So I am making her daddy come home with her at night while I am in the hospital to give her some sense of normalness...but then I dont have him with me either, LOL. So many different type of things to worry about this time around.

YES I HIT MY 60 LB MARK WITH FLYING COLORS! LOL

We had no issues doing this task. I just pack on the pounds like crazy when I am pregnant.

I am having a ton of Braxton Hicks contractions. A couple of weeks ago I started to get really tired again, and way nauseous again. I am thankful for the many months I felt good.

So we will see what the next few weeks bring...if I dont go into labor on my own we are having a scheduled c-section on Sept. 1, 2010!