Newborn Pics...Finally!

Yay. We finally got Sydnee's newborn pictures back.  Katie Wells did a great job I think.  I am trying to decide which picture we should blow up and print for our house, so let me know your opinions. Sydnee was 12 days old in these pictures.  It is crazy how much she has changed in a few short weeks. Love this little girl! By the way, I love the picture of Syd and Andrew, but hate the ones with me in them...I am making dumb faces and look terrible. I just posted them so I can look back at all the pictures she took.

More pics June 2012

 Sydnee at almost four weeks and Jonas at 4 months

 What a good daddy!

 Loved this dress.  Her first time going to church.  Almost 5 weeks old.

 Five weeks old today! YAY!

More Pictures of Our Precious Sydnee

We just love our little girl.  Andrew is so cute with her and I love being a mommy! So glad to be home from the hospital and getting back to normal life.  It breaks my heart to think of leaving her even two days a week when I go back to work.  I seriously love her so much!

Hospital

This story is so people know the overview of what went on in the Browning family the last couple weeks...
Sydnee was born on Monday night at 10:11p.m. on April 30, 2012.  Everything was good and Sydnee appeared to be healthy and strong and normal according to the doctors that looked her over.  We went home from the hospital on Wednesday May 2, 2012 only to end up back in the hospital the following day.  We were home for one day and Sydnee only had one messy diaper in 24 hours. Her temperature was low and she wasn't showing much interest in eating.  I knew something wasn't right.  Andrew and I both felt like we needed to take her to the ER and getting ready to go, she had an apnic episode where she stopped breathing for a minute and her lips started to turn blue.  We rushed her to the hospital as fast as we could possibly go. When we arrived, they took her temperature rectally and it was 96.1! The doctor ordered a chest x-ray, did a spinal tap, a blood draw, and after poking her like 6 times, finally put an IV in her head.  She was so traumatized! He decided that she needed to go to the NICU and turn the care over to Dr. Jenkins (the neonatologist). He then ordered everything you can imagine to be done to her to see what was going on.  She had another chest x-ray, CT scan, retinal exam to look for fungus, EEG, echo of the heart, EKG, and more blood draws.  Andrew and I were so emotional not knowing what was going on with our beautiful little girl.  I have never had a rougher week emotionally than this one.  After all the tests, the doctor concluded that she had a pneumonia with either a bacterial or viral bronchiolitis.  We also found out she has a ventricular septal defect in her heart which we will have to follow up with the cardiologist about soon.  They had her on oxygen (because her saturation levels would drop) as well as an IV with antibiotics.  After spending two days in the NICU, Dr. Jenkins shipped us off to the pediatric floor to spend the remainder of our time there.  The plan was to be in the hospital for 7 days to finish out the IV antibiotic cycle.  She however still needed oxygen at night when she slept, so they held us another day.  Hopefully, she is home for good now and we can start our life as a new family.  Thanks for the prayers and to my amazing ward, family, and neighbors for their amazing support.

Sydnee Pictures Finally!