Introducing Austin Riley Taylor - born April 10, 2013

We made it!!  Austin Riley Taylor was born April 10, 2013 at 3.21pm.  He was 6lb7oz.  After 15 hours of labour (!) and an attempt at a natural birth, he ended up being born by c-section.

It's been a 11 days and the time has passed so quickly, yet so slowly.  Feeding is going well, but the nights are so, so hard.  I'm in a state of delirium, really.  Neil has not been adjusting well, having several fits a day and it's been really hard.

Unfortunately, Austin has a few problems - his thumbs are not properly developed and he has an indentation at the base of his spine.  So, it means more hospital visits - ultrasounds on his back, meeting with an orthopedic surgeon, as well as a geneticist to rule out these issues being related to some other syndrome.  It's extremely scary.  After everything we've been through you just want to have a "perfect, healthy baby".  But because we always seem to the on the wrong side of percentages, if it can happen to us it does.  Makes you wonder why us?

But through it all I try to just look at our gorgeous angel, Austin, who made it through despite all the struggles and the long, long weeks of bed rest.  And I know that no matter what we will love him for all that he is, but you just pray that everything will work out okay in the end.