Jane Harris Head's arrival into the world

In a short 13 months we went from no children to 2! Quite the adjustment to say the least. My email to announce Jane's arrival follows.

Jane Harris Head

arrived Monday August 22nd at 2:59 pm via C-section. She was 18" long & 6 pounds 7 ounces. She is so precious and has a head full of red hair like her Daddy!

C-section was not planned. I went in for my 35 week appt and my blood pressure was elevated. It had started to creep up and the OB decided it was time to have a baby before she or her mommy got sick. Talk about a shocker - just going to my regular visit and WHAM - you're having a baby today!

Jane Harris had to spend a week in NICU due to her being "premature" and havinga high bilirubin (jaundice - yellow skin). We finally got to bring her home today just beore Hurricane Katrina made her way up to Birmingham!

Mary Austin has taken it all in stride. She wavers back and forth about her"new baby". One minute she is fascinated with her and the next well.. not so much! They are 20 months apart and will be only 1 grade apart unless we hold Jane Harris back.

NICU would not let us take flash pictures of her so we do not have a picture to send yet but once we do I will forward it on! We did not really suffer any damage due to the hurricane - just some downed tree limbs. We lost power for just a few hours - I think the good Lord was watchingover us on this one as some people in Birmingham have only just recently gotten power back on. The storm damage was worse here in B'ham than it was with Ivan that hit Gulf Shores, AL last September. Some of Tripp's relatives were flooded- they live on the bay in Fairhope (near Mobile). no word on if their homes area total loss yet.

Sadly enough we ran into a couple in the hospital on Sunday from New Orleans. She was in the early stages of labor and the OB/GYN told them to leave and drive as far away as they could. They picked St Vincents here in B'ham. We did not see them again but I cannot imagine having a baby and then not having a home to bring her home to.

Children's (where I work) has flown down to New Orleans and brought back some of the premature babies to our NICUand UAB's NICU. The flight team had to leave the parents behind. One of my friends is a flight nurse and said the conditions are so bad - worse than anything she had ever seen even on medical missions trips to 3rd world areas.