On September 27, 2015 we welcomed a beautiful baby girl that we named Isabelle Ann Walker. She was 7 lbs 3 oz and born at 10:35 pm.She is energetic, outgoing, friendly, charismatic, hilarious, sweet, beautiful and fun! I had a fantastic labor and delivery that was 7.5 hours from induction to birth! She came 9 days late and if we hadn't gotten induced she probably would've stayed another week or two.
When she came out the doctor put her on my belly right away and she lifted her head up and looked right at me when I said hello to her. We were mesmerized by her and couldn't look away! We also kept stroking her soft skin. It was an overwhelming moment in time! The more I look back on it the more beautiful it seems.
We didn't know yet that she would have severe colic and cry and scream the first 3 months of her life...
The entire first night of her life I think she slept a grand total of 15 minutes maybe? If she wasn't nursing she was screaming. It was a terrible night and the nurses did absolutely nothing to help me. After I had been breastfeeding her for 5 hours straight I ventured into the hallway to see if I could get some help and the nurse very rudely told me I had to get back in my room and to keep feeding her....
The next evening when we loaded her up in her car seat and left the hospital she screamed and screamed on the way home. I was sitting next to her and trying to calm her in any way I could to no avail. Suddenly, mid-scream she went completely silent and in the dark of the car I was trying to feel if she was breathing! We thought we broke our baby before even getting home! When we got home we realized that she had fallen asleep in the middle of a scream. It was sure scary!
Being first time parents and not having anyone staying with us to help out it would be a few weeks before we realized she had severe colic. It was the hardest 3 months of my entire life.
