Ava Marie Croft

Ava Marie Croft was born on June 29, 2009. She weighed 5 lbs. 14 oz. and was 18 1/2 inches long. Originally due on the 14th of July we are happy she came early. We went to the hospital at 8:00am and she was born at 2:12pm. We are so blessed to have such a great doctor that realized that I needed to be induced. After Ava was born and he was delivering the placenta Dr. Wassinger realized that the umbilical cord was hanging on by a thread. If I hadn't been induced who knows what could have happened if the umbilical cord had come unattached. We also had another scare while at the hospital. The day that we were supposed to go home I was feeding Ava and she started to turn purple, so we called in the nurse. The nurse, Sharon, ran her in the other room and gave her some oxygen. Then they did a chest x-ray and drew some blood trying to figure out what was wrong with her. This caused us to stay in the hospital for an extra day with Ava hooked up to an oxygen monitor. The x-ray results came back and she either had some mucous left in her lungs or pneumonia. Luckily it wasn't pneumonia. So we had to wait until Wednesday afternoon to get the blood test results back and they were all negative so we finally got released to go home.

Ian was most excited to see his Dad!Grandma and Ian came over about an hour after she was born. All Ian did was say "baby" and point at her.The proud Daddy!Ian on Dustin's Wonderful cot.Ian makes the "sad face" whenever she cries. And has to run over and look at her.We got home on Wednesday July 1. We were so happy to leave the hospital.Ian gave me a great big hug when we got home. It made me so happy, because at the hospital he didn't want anything to do with me.