A Look Back and A Look Ahead

Happy 2012! Wow that seems crazy. I didn't start blogging until late in 2011 so I thought I would do a little look back at the year! FYI: this is another long one! Consider yourself warned!

January:

• I attended three days of the new year before going into tachycardia and being put in the hospital for two days. This was my first of many hospital stays.
• We found out I had hyperthroidism.
• We got snowed in

February:

• We painted the nursery
• Celebrated my moms birthday
• I begin bed rest at home
• We find out I have a bulging sack and require surgery to get a cerclage
• I continue bed rest but more strictly

March:
• On March 12 I go into early labor and enter the hospital
• I hope and pray and we make it past 24 weeks


April:
• I celebrate Easter in the hospital
• Bentley comes to visit me
• I stay up having contractions and watch the royal wedding
• I have magnesium sulfate and steroid shots
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• May:
• I being having regular contractions
• On May 3, I go into labor and it cannot be stopped
• On May 4, easrly in the morning my sweet babies are born breathing on their own and require little intervention
• I hold my babies for the first time
• Emma and Levi get off CPAP
• Emma contracts MRSA and is seprated from Levi





 June:
• Levi and Emma get out of the incubators
• Levi contracts MRSA and is moved to be with his sister
• Emma and Levi are reunited!
• Mommy holds Emma and Levi together for the first time
• Emma and Levi go home one day apart after 52 and 53 days in the NICU







July:
• Emma and Levi celebrate their two month birthday
• We celebrate the fourth of july at home
• Clayton and I celebrate our one year anniversary



August:
• We take the babies on their first walk
• clayton turns 30
• My mom goes back to work and I brave the babies alone
• Emma and Levi have rice cereal
• the babies ROP is cleared



September:
• I turn 30
• The babies start going to a pulmonologist

October

• The babies receive their first RSV prevention shot
• We begin staying at home more during cold/flu season
• we got to the arboretum
• We celebrate Halloween

November

• Levi begins physcial therapy
• nonny and poppy butch come to visit for Thanksgiving
• Emma goes to the ER and has first ambulance ride


December:
• We go see Santa
• we celebrate Christmas at my parents house
• Emma and Levi get their first colds




So here we are 2012! What a year 2011 was! It was both the hardest and greatest year of my life. I will never forget the year my sweet babies were born.  2012 brings promises of a great year and I am so excited to see what it brings.  Hope you all had a great holiday!