Baby Wiggles McD

 Life with a newborn is an awesome adventure! Full of ups and downs, surprise twists and turns – and just when you think you've mastered things, your child will leave you feeling both humbled and clueless.  It's a new era for Scott and I, and since we yearned for Farryn for so long, even the hard bits aren't too bad. Although, I may be speaking for myself here. Scott struggles a bit more with the sleep deprivation than I do. It's likely due to all the hormones flooding my body... but I also think it's because men are babies. ;-) Farryn is 3+ weeks (24 days) and it's incredible to watch her change and grow daily. Overall, I think we're pretty lucky. She's relatively easy to calm when she's upset. However, when she's hungry, she goes from 0 to 110 in a matter of seconds. No problem with her vocal chords – I like to joke that she's communicative like her mama. Of course, that's funnier in retrospect when she's soundly sleeping in my arms...

SPOILER ALERT: Wiggles has arrived! And she's named Farryn Pauline.  Farryn came into this world via c-section at 7:12 am on my birthday, July 29th. She weighed 7 lbs. 4.4 oz. and measured 19.8 inches long. She is pure perfection. For those of you following our fertility journey closely, it should come as no surprise that our labor and delivery story unfolded in all the ways we had hoped to avoid. HA! Of course. That's not to say we didn't have an intimate, mindful and life-changing experience; we did. We just hoped things would turn out the old fashioned way...  From the beginning: At my NST on Monday (July 27th), Farryn had a minor deceleration in her heart rate. My BP was also borderline high, so my doctor asked us to go to labor and delivery for additional monitoring. Instead of rushing straight to L&D, Scott and I went home, ate a snack, and packed up the hospital bag. For all we knew, it could be our last snack at home before baby... In triage at L&D, they co...