What's this all about

I know there's a lot of people that want to know how our baby is doing. She is great. We don't yet know how long she will be in the NICU, but her neonatologist said that she "could not be happier" with the progress. They are feeding her milk now to get her to start growing and putting on weight. We can go see her or call them for updates anytime around the clock. So that makes not being able to take her home with us a little easier.

Unfortunately, we don't have the time to directly tell these updates to anyone except the Grandmas right now. Also, trying to email everyone is proving more difficult than I thought, so my plan is to post any and all updates, news, and some pictures here continuously as I get them. Basically if I think it's something more than one person would want to hear, I'm just going to post it here. You can bookmark the main link to this page brd.erf.net/sophie and always see the newest posts at the top. If you use a MyYahoo page or Google homepage, you can click the appropriate button on the right side of the page here and get these updates to automatically show up right there on your homepage.

To have posts here show up in your Outlook email program, try following the directions on http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA101595391033.aspx When it asks you what to put in for the feed address, cut & paste this in there:

http://brd.erf.net/sophie/atom.xml

I don't use windows, so I'm not able to test this out, but if there's problems or questions, let me know.

Also, when I get time, I'll try to share more about the things leading up to and including her delivery. But for now, she is staying at Cook's Children's Hospital in their NICU. Stephanie did get to come home yesterday and is doing well. She is tired and sore. The hardest part is going to be getting her to keep still for the next 4-6 weeks and not doing too much.

For now, we're trying to get caught up on sleep, news, emails, phone calls, pictures, etc. And of course, we'll be making daily trips to Ft Worth to see our daughter.