The Robells’ Blog

We gave Michaela her first bath today. Double click the video clip above to watch it.

We tired out one of our bouncy seats today and Michaels seemed to enjoy sleeping in it.

Nicole’s friends Kelli and Karen came over to see Michaela today. It gave us an opportunity to take our first family portrait.

We spent our first full day at home as a family snuggling.

We left the hospital Friday afternoon around 3:00 pm. One of the things we did when we got home was introduce Michaela to Bella.

We were able to stay awake long enough to sing happy (one day) birthday to Michaela.

Michaela passed her first checkup with the pediatrician.

All four of Michaela’s grandparents were at the hospital when she was born and got a chance to see her in the NICU. They left before she was released from the NICU but they had a chance to hold her on Thursday.

After a relatively easy pregnancy, Nicole had a rather long delivery. She started having contractions shortly after being admitted around 1:30pm on Tuesday, the 24th and was started on pitocin to augment her contractions around 2:30pm.  Around 9:00pm, they decided to take Nicole off pitocin for the night as she wasn’t dilated much more than […]

During this morning’s OB visit, the doctor discovered that the baby wasn’t as active as last week.  The sonogram showed very little fluid around the baby so the doctor decided to induce today (instead of 8:00 a.m. tomorrow morning).  Well, after 6 hours of labor augmented with pitocin, it was clear that the baby was […]