{"id":581,"date":"2008-06-26T23:38:54","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T04:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=581"},"modified":"2008-06-26T23:38:54","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T04:38:54","slug":"happy-birthday-baby-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=581","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Baby Girl!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It is so hard to believe that only a year ago, our sweet Mary Clare was born. I wish so badly that I had a joyous, and exciting birth story to tell her as I do McCanless on her birthday every year, but truth be known, Mary Clare’s birth was one of the most difficult times of my life. Tonight I pulled out the baby blanket that was covering her the afternoon I first walked up to PC-ICU to visit her and so many wonderful, sad, happy, terrifying moments came flooding back to me.<\/p>\n

After a quick and easy labor and delivery, Mary Clare arrived around 11 am. I briefly got a glimpse of her, noting how beautiful she was and how she looked like my granddaddy, Daddy Bob. She was then rushed off behind closed doors. Mel was allowed to see her after they got in all of her lines, and then she was brought to me a couple of hours after birth. These first moments of her were between the glass of an incubator and were very brief. Later that afternoon, I walked up alone to PC-ICU to visit her. She was in bed 1 covered by a tiny crocheted blanket and had a pink bow in her hair. With so many wires and tubes peeking out from beneath her blanket, she was peacefully sleeping and I leaned over her and promised that I would do everything I could to keep her safe. I so badly wanted to hold her, to try to nurse her, to sleep beside her bed as any new mom would be doing. I vowed to stay there all night to welcome my baby girl into this world, and despite the bright lights, IV’s, and loud buzzes, I would be there to rub her little hand and talk to her and comfort her as best I could. But only after only a few moments, she turned blue. Buzzers went off, nurses rushed over and I was told to leave immediately. I wouldn’t see my baby girl awake again for 7 days. She had to be sedated, paralyzed and intubated until her surgery.<\/p>\n

The next month would turn into an experience that would forever change me as a person. I am a better mom today because of Mary Clare. I am a better person because of Mary Clare. God has given me a precious angel to care for and for that I am so very grateful. I am thankful for everything that we have been through as a family and I am so proud of everything that she is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is so hard to believe that only a year ago, our sweet Mary Clare was born. I wish so badly that I had a joyous, and exciting birth story to tell her as I do McCanless on her birthday every year, but truth be known, Mary Clare’s birth was one of the most difficult […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}