Well let's see. It feels like forever since I've been on the blog and posted anything about our little family. Everyone knows by now that our daughter, Maysie, has died and is now watching over her parents with her father in heaven. Maysie died at 5:35pm on Sunday, April 6th, 2008. What a beautiful day to pass away-our Savior's day. She was buried on Wednesday, April 9th which believe it or not was the day I took out my endowments in the Bountiful, UT temple exactly 10 years ago in 1998. Who would have thought that I would have a moment like this one....to FINALLY marry the man of my dreams, to give birth to a beautiful daughter and to have her taken from me but thanks to the knowledge I have of the gospel and the faith I have in the love of eternal families, I know that Maysie will be with Aaron and I again someday!
As for us, we are trying to move on! Slowly but surely! Aaron and I find it hard to fill our days with things to do. I was let go from my job the day after Maysie died because of not being there so I am looking very hard for employment. Aaron and I have decided to work an extra job each this summer to save enough money for Aaron to go back to school in the fall. Now that we don't have Maysie, our whole plan has changed once again and that takes a lot of getting used to.
We can not thank everyone enough for the love, prayers and support that were said on our behalf and that are continue to be said! In the short time that Maysie was on this earth, she touched us so much! She made Aaron and I a family and even though we can not be parents to her now, we will continue to parent her memory; the memory of the most beautiful, active little "adult" (she reminded me of a little adult instead of a baby) that for 8 glorious days defied all the odds and lived! I have pictures of her funeral but chose not to post them as there may be some who it would shock but please know that Maysie felt loved while on this earth by all those surrounding her and extended from her!
Our love and thanks to all!!
Aaron, Kate and Maysie Hambrick!
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Friday, April 4, 2008
The AMAZING Maysie!
Well! Maysie is officially 5 1/2 days old and doing amazingly well! She is active and responding to all of the treatments being thrown at her with flying colors! She LOVES her legs and feet! Always kicking them in the air! She definetly has a little personality already and is good and chill growing in her artifical uterus! Here are some pictures that Mommy took! I'm not proud or anything am I?
As of yesterday, Maysie is finally big enough enough to wear a diaper which the smallest one they have is 4 1/2 inches tall and 3 1/2 inches wide. She is SWIMMING in it. They have to fold it down to get it to fit right BUT I was really proud to see her in a diaper!
MORE pics to come! Thank you to everyone for all your prayers!! We thank God for our little girl and every moment we have we cherish!
Look at that sweet little face! The plastic coming down from her mouth is actually a pacifier! It is so micro tiny-fitting because she is called a micro preemie!
Here is her home! I call it her hotel! She has several lights on her to keep her billi count down-it's the stuff in your body that creates joundice (I hope I spelled that right). She has tons of pumps too but you can see the little pink flower on her front and the blanket made for her top. Aaron and I put our picture in her incubator so she can "see" Daddy and Mommy!
It's hard to see but she has dark brown hair just like her Daddy! But her little features and especially her ears look so developed!
Her feet look small but really they measure 1 1/2 inches! She has big feet for a baby her size! AGAIN-she got that from Aaron! I don't think she really got anything from me!
As of yesterday, Maysie is finally big enough enough to wear a diaper which the smallest one they have is 4 1/2 inches tall and 3 1/2 inches wide. She is SWIMMING in it. They have to fold it down to get it to fit right BUT I was really proud to see her in a diaper!MORE pics to come! Thank you to everyone for all your prayers!! We thank God for our little girl and every moment we have we cherish!
Monday, March 31, 2008
Our "Little Bit"
Well as most everyone knows now, Aaron and I are the proud parents or a beautiful little girl! I never got a chance to update the blog with that announcement that we were having a girl because we found out Tuesday the 25th very late in the evening when I was told by the triage doctor in Labor and Delivery I officially was in pre-term labor! Wouldn't you know that despite my best efforts to stay off my feet and not do ANYTHING....our little rolly polly was born on Saturday, March 29th 2008 at 9:24PM. It went something like this:
As I mentioned above I went into pre-term labor on Tuesday the 25th which earned me a night's stay in the hospital being released on Wednesday....not to be my last visit, I ended up back in the triage center on Thursday evening with labor pains and was sent home because I wasn't changing and we were trying to keep our little bundle of joy in there as long as possible! Friday night by around 6:00PM I was in so much pain I could barely move so Aaron but my to bed with my legs and feet in the air....NOW the GOOD STUFF!
I was laying in bed, hungry around 9:45PM on Friday the 28th...Aaron went to make me a sandwich and I settled into an episode of The Golden Girls. No sooner had I felt my contractions going away, that I felt the HUGEST burst and water GUSHING out of me. I gasped and screamed for Aaron along the lines of "AARON, AARON, AARON, AARON!!!!!!!" He came running into the bedroom-I was crying and breathing and yelled that my water just broke. He helped up out of bed, threw a robe on me and held my hand as we flew down the stairs. AMAZING SKILLS this hubby of mine has because he was running down the stairs, me in one hand, calling the hospital in the other and then calling his parents. We made it to the hospital and we were told that I was 6 centimeters and would deliver within the hour. We were also told that our little girl was too small and would most likely be born either not alive or take a few breaths and pass away. Aaron and I burst into tears but somehow found strength to take about funeral arrangements and sign paperwork for her pending departure. We asked to speak with the neonatal team to see just what our chances were for our baby. The doctor that spoke to us was set on not trying to save our girl but after pleading with him he agreed that if she came out a weighing at least 1 pound his team would attempt to save her!
Once transfered into a delivery room, I was given pain medication and announced to everyone in between contracts that I was starving. To my surprise, my OB team allowed me to eat-very unusual! I had a little pizza from the cafeteria and fell asleep no longer in pain and with a full tummy. Around midnight, I noticed that my contractions were gone COMPLETELY! I had nothing! I slept intermittently until around 9:30AM Saturday morning when I awoke to a contraction--I was so good at pushing the button for pain meds that I think I pushed it in my sleep! My contractions progressed steadily through out the day all the while SHOVING MY FACE with every fatty, forbidden food known to mankind! The routine was, pain meds, food sleep for most of Saturday..... by the time 8:00PM rolled around, I had the most HORRIFIC contraction to date! It lasted 5 minutes and I thought that my entire body would leap of the bed. I called for the nurse and screamed that the pain wasn't going away! I was checked around 8:45 and was told she was coming and get ready to push! WHAT I'm still trying to deal with pain here! I can't concentrate on pushing out a baby! Needless to say I screamed and pushed not really knowing I was pushing and out came our little Maysie!! The only thing I remember while they were taking her away from me was WOW she is so LONG! I waited patiently for a number........that special little number.......her weight! It seemed forever but all of a sudden we heard 1 pound 1 ounce and she is intubated! I CRIED SO HARD!!!! Our little dream was breathing and made the cut off by 1 miraculous little ounce!!!! No wonder I was starving! She was gaining that little ounce so she could come into this world and have her life saved!
So the moment we are waiting for.........Introducing Maysie Diane Hambrick
Believe it or not.....she looks just like her Daddy! Dark hair and features....she did get Mommy's mouth and chubby little toes and look how long she is!!
As I mentioned above I went into pre-term labor on Tuesday the 25th which earned me a night's stay in the hospital being released on Wednesday....not to be my last visit, I ended up back in the triage center on Thursday evening with labor pains and was sent home because I wasn't changing and we were trying to keep our little bundle of joy in there as long as possible! Friday night by around 6:00PM I was in so much pain I could barely move so Aaron but my to bed with my legs and feet in the air....NOW the GOOD STUFF!
I was laying in bed, hungry around 9:45PM on Friday the 28th...Aaron went to make me a sandwich and I settled into an episode of The Golden Girls. No sooner had I felt my contractions going away, that I felt the HUGEST burst and water GUSHING out of me. I gasped and screamed for Aaron along the lines of "AARON, AARON, AARON, AARON!!!!!!!" He came running into the bedroom-I was crying and breathing and yelled that my water just broke. He helped up out of bed, threw a robe on me and held my hand as we flew down the stairs. AMAZING SKILLS this hubby of mine has because he was running down the stairs, me in one hand, calling the hospital in the other and then calling his parents. We made it to the hospital and we were told that I was 6 centimeters and would deliver within the hour. We were also told that our little girl was too small and would most likely be born either not alive or take a few breaths and pass away. Aaron and I burst into tears but somehow found strength to take about funeral arrangements and sign paperwork for her pending departure. We asked to speak with the neonatal team to see just what our chances were for our baby. The doctor that spoke to us was set on not trying to save our girl but after pleading with him he agreed that if she came out a weighing at least 1 pound his team would attempt to save her!
Once transfered into a delivery room, I was given pain medication and announced to everyone in between contracts that I was starving. To my surprise, my OB team allowed me to eat-very unusual! I had a little pizza from the cafeteria and fell asleep no longer in pain and with a full tummy. Around midnight, I noticed that my contractions were gone COMPLETELY! I had nothing! I slept intermittently until around 9:30AM Saturday morning when I awoke to a contraction--I was so good at pushing the button for pain meds that I think I pushed it in my sleep! My contractions progressed steadily through out the day all the while SHOVING MY FACE with every fatty, forbidden food known to mankind! The routine was, pain meds, food sleep for most of Saturday..... by the time 8:00PM rolled around, I had the most HORRIFIC contraction to date! It lasted 5 minutes and I thought that my entire body would leap of the bed. I called for the nurse and screamed that the pain wasn't going away! I was checked around 8:45 and was told she was coming and get ready to push! WHAT I'm still trying to deal with pain here! I can't concentrate on pushing out a baby! Needless to say I screamed and pushed not really knowing I was pushing and out came our little Maysie!! The only thing I remember while they were taking her away from me was WOW she is so LONG! I waited patiently for a number........that special little number.......her weight! It seemed forever but all of a sudden we heard 1 pound 1 ounce and she is intubated! I CRIED SO HARD!!!! Our little dream was breathing and made the cut off by 1 miraculous little ounce!!!! No wonder I was starving! She was gaining that little ounce so she could come into this world and have her life saved!
So the moment we are waiting for.........Introducing Maysie Diane Hambrick
Believe it or not.....she looks just like her Daddy! Dark hair and features....she did get Mommy's mouth and chubby little toes and look how long she is!!
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Newest Update-SURPRISE!
OK-so now I'm into blog frenzie! We do have one more update for everyone.....
We are expecting our first little one on July 28th, 2008!
22 Weeks and COUNTING! We don't know what it is yet although we have tried! The baby was turned and shy but we have nicknamed it "rolly polly" because it rolls and kicks mommy a LOT! The countdown is on to the newest little one to join the family.....we have names picked out but want to know what we are having first before we dish those......the new idea is that it's not really a baby but a monkey; since we can't get a clear picture of if it's a boy or girl. It has been a very interesting pregnancy so far but I'm hoping that it will get better as we go along!
Our Family!
Our Family...
So I'm getting used to posting on the blog after several attempts but I thought it would be nice to put pictures of Aaron's family on the blog. Once I get pictures of my family I will post them too! So here goes.....
Here is Derek and Amy Peterson....Aaron's older sister and husband! Below is baby Charlotte...their newest addition, home from the hospital after being born premature.
Next is a picture of Aaron's nephews and his dad Clif. The boys start with Brad, the oldest, Wyatt, the middle and Travis, the youngest! Such hot men in our family!
So I'm getting used to posting on the blog after several attempts but I thought it would be nice to put pictures of Aaron's family on the blog. Once I get pictures of my family I will post them too! So here goes.....
Here is Derek and Amy Peterson....Aaron's older sister and husband! Below is baby Charlotte...their newest addition, home from the hospital after being born premature.Next is a picture of Aaron's nephews and his dad Clif. The boys start with Brad, the oldest, Wyatt, the middle and Travis, the youngest! Such hot men in our family!
I don't have a picture of Jake and Shanan yet but when I track that down I will post it!
Kate's family to follow soon! My family is not the best about taking pictures but I'm sure I can find something! :-)
Wedding Day
The big news about Aaron and I is our recent wedding!We were married March 1st, 2008! We don't have all the pictures yet but here are a few.....
Here we are enjoying the reception!
Here we are enjoying the reception!
and our YUMMY CAKE!!
Aaron and his mom Teresa! Don't they just look awesome!
We will post more photos when we get them! We all had a GREAT time and it just turned out beautiful! Many thanks to everyone who came and sent love and support!
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