Re: Announcing...Harley Jasmine Marquez

[Guest guest]

Congratulations, Amy! It's nice to know you're doing well and so is Harley.

:-)

Hugs,

Joe

[Guest guest]

Congratulations! I hope your enjoying your little bundle of joy. So now is a

great opportunity for me to ask you a few questions. I am Amy's husband,

Olivia's father. I take care of Amy 24/7 and we are raising Olivia 24/7. I am

curious how do you two do it. I would love to hear different perspectives!

Unfortunately we really have no other help so its just the two of us. Can you

handle

the care for the baby at all? Who takes care of the baby when your husband

isn't around? I just love to hear about this kinda stuff. Maybe I've made all

things baby my hobby! Do you have any aides, if so do they help raise your kids?

Isn't it such an exciting time, to watch how they change and grow. Has either

of your children hurt you when they were at that age when they can move a lot

but not know what there doing? Oh well that's all I can think of now, but I'm

ure I'll think of more later! Congrats again!

Will

[Guest guest]

Congratulations! Welcome to the world Harley Jasmine Marquez!!!

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[Guest guest]

God bless Harley.

[Guest guest]

Amy, you are great. Congratulation !! LOL, Mee Ling

--- Ames24@... wrote: > Good morning,

>

> I have been extremely out of the loop lately, but

> wanted to let you all know

> that I gave birth to our second daughter, Harley

> Jasmine, March 9, 2004, at

> 1:12 PM. She was 17 3/4 inches long and weighed 5

> pounds, 1 ounce. We were most

> fortunate this time around in that she experienced

> minimal breathing

> difficulties, and spent less than two weeks in the

> hospital for feeding issues.

>

> le is loving the concept of having a baby

> sister around, and actually

> wants to be involved in her care...she'll help with

> feeding, changing diapers,

> etc. Back when I was still pregnant, she told us

> that she didn't want the baby

> since the baby was " hurting mommy " so naturally we

> had our concerns as to how

> well she would accept her sister. Towards the end of

> my pregnancy it got

> pretty rough in regards to nutrition and pain issues

> for myself, and, obviously,

> le witnessed quite a bit of it and always

> seemed to understand what was

> going on. Needless to say, we are thrilled that she

> welcomed Harley into this

> world with an open heart and arms.

>

> I am doing much better now. The two weeks prior to

> delivery were HELL, but I

> made it through with the support of my family and an

> incredible team of

> doctors. I went into the hospital February 29th for

> pain management, and stayed

> until Harley was born. A number of issues came up

> throughout the course of my

> stay, but everything worked out just fine in the

> end. Surgery/delivery went very

> well, other than it taking over an hour to find a

> vein for IV placement, and

> that was with four different people sticking

> me...two of them being my doctors

> whom I trust with my life.

>

> Afterwards, I spent one night in MICU and the

> healing process seemed to be

> going very smoothly and quickly...little did I know

> that the pain and rough road

> was about to hit nearly a week later. On top of

> trying to heal from the

> delivery and having my tubes tied, I developed a

> respiratory infection that lasted,

> I am not joking, approximately eight weeks despite

> being on heavy doses of

> antibiotics. We finally decided to get my

> pulmonologist involved about two weeks

> ago (the fear was that I was aspirating and unaware

> of it), he switched my

> antibiotic to Augmentin, and, knock on wood, I have

> been off meds and HEALTHY

> now for nearly a week. Although the rain and all the

> humidity tend to very

> uncomfortable for my lungs and breathing at times.

>

> Anyhow, I will update more later. I'm off to write

> an article for the

> Families of SMA newsletter.

>

> Much love,

> Amy M.

>

>

>

>

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>

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