One month already!

On Monday, our little Torrance turned 4 weeks old.  I cannot believe how fast this first month has gone!  I've enjoyed being home with her and watching her grow.  She's quite the animated little girl and pulls lots of funny faces.  Scott and I will be taking a picture of her as each month passes to document her growth.  Here she is at month #1.

Photo Shoot

We took Torrance to get newborn pictures taken when she was 10 days old.  We tried a new place called Foto Fly and they did a great job.  Here are some of our favorites!

New Baby at Home

Scott and I were glad to finally be home from the hospital.  My parents were still in town so they were able to help around the house, which was really nice!!  It took a little while for Scott and I to grasp the fact that we were parents.  It was such a sudden, but wonderful change.  Here are some pictures from Torrance's first few days at home.

We just LOVE having her and cannot believe how much we absolutely love her.  She eats about every 3-4 hours and will sometimes even go 5-6 at night.  So far she's a pretty good baby!  Scott was home for three weeks with us and went back to work last week.  He's been so great with her.  It'll be fun for us to watch how she changes over the next few months.

Yikes!!!

Well, it has been a LONG time since I've updated the blog - sorry!  There are lots of new updates, but I'll start with the most important one.  After 9 months of waiting, our little one is finally here!  Torrance Elyse Cooley was born on October 8, 2012 at 1:07 am.  She weighed 7lbs 15oz and was 19.5"long.  My labor was pretty long, but after 18 hours, Torrance was finally here.  I delivered one week ahead of my due date as I was induced.  During the last couple of months during my pregnancy I was battling high blood pressure.  One day it would be elevated, and the next, normal.  Because my BP was all over the place, my OB decided that once I got to 39 weeks, he was going to induce me.  Scott and I went to the hospital at 6 am on October 7 for the induction.  The nurse started me on pitocin around 7am and I was given an epidural about 3 hours later.  After that was all said and done, there was a lot of waiting around.  I had some company though.  Scott was there the entire time and his mom and my parents were also in the room.  Scott was the only one in the room during the delivery, which lasted 3 hours.  Once Torrance was born, the nurse whisked her off pretty quickly because the cord was around her neck during delivery.  It took the nurse some time before Torrance let out her first cry.  I have to admit that I was pretty nervous watching the nurse handle my baby girl as I wasn't sure what was going on.  Once they checked her vitals I was finally able to hold my baby.

Once we all got a chance to hold the little one, Scott accompanied the nurse to the nursery where he got to give Tori her first bath.  Before they bathed her they checked her vitals again and put her under a heat lamp to warm her up.  After my epidural wore off,  I was moved to a recovery room and was able to join Scott in the nursery.  

Once her bath was finished we were able to get settled in our recovery room, in which we lived for 3 days.  The rooms at the hospital were pretty nice.  All of the nurses that took care of me and Tori was very helpful and caring.  Despite being in a hospital our stay wasn't that bad.  We kept the baby in our room most of the time but put her in the nursery for a bit at night time so Scott and I could get some sleep.  On day 3, we were finally cleared to go home.  We were shown how to put Tori in her car seat and make sure she was in securely.  Scott and I were both nervous on the drive home as we've never had a newborn in the car before.  Scott drove while I sat in the back seat of the car.