Our family of four!

We are home, let me say it again, HOME! Not Texas home, but our temp home here in WI.
Lydia came home yesterday. The biggest concern at this point for sweet Lydia is if she would need a shunt placed in her head; due to swelling on the back of the head from the closure/repair on her back....
Let me start from the beginning.
Sunday the 25th at 39 weeks we were admitted to the hospital. After 2 rounds of cytetil(sp?) I was contracting on my own (w/o patocin) and at 7:30 was 4cm! This labor was definitely different; let alone the hospital but the fact that I was getting 2-3 contractions at a time. I was not getting a break. By 10:30 I had my epidural and was at 6cm. At this point the nurses and my Dr were a little concerned that every time I was having a contraction or should I say my 2-3 contractions, Lydia's heart rate was dropping and taking a while to come back.
That's when Jake took my hands and we prayed...we prayed that I would start dilating fast, that a c-section was not an option, that my contractions would ease up and not come multiple times.
I only got patocin from 1030 till 12:30, the idea was that it would smooth out my contractions to one at a time and give Lydia a chance to get her heart rate up, wrong! Another drip of my epidural helped the pain a bit...and by 1 I was feeling some intense pressure. Sure enough I was at a 9. It took almost 20 minutes of pushing and out she came at 157 pm.
Her cord had been in a knot and that was the reason her heart rate was dropping; Lydia got oxygen right away. Unfortunately because of this and the swift team at Children's I was not able to hold her till she was a few hours old. Oh how my heart ached...I could see her a little bit through the blur of nurses, dr's, and pediatrician's...but Daddy was there by her side the hole time.
By the time I could hold my sweet angel I found out that I could breast feed her since her surgery was set for Wednesday morning. I don't like to think too much about last week. It was an emotional whirl wind. My heart has never ached and hurt so much. It was worse than Jake's deployment's put together times 10. I can't tell you how many times I wanted to just grab my sweet little girl and run home.
The closure on her back told us that she has Myelomeningocil, that its at the L4 (lumbar), and she will walk! She does not need a catheter, she doesn't appear to need a shunt at this ppoint (PRAISE GOD!), her right leg appears to be perfectly fine but her left foot appears to have some issues...only time will tell.
The issues should only be with her ankle and toes; maybe an orthopedic shoe will be needed.
We feel blessed to have our sweet little girl home. In our arms, and near to us with out any monitors or nurses to bother us. God has given us a strong and healthy girl and things could be so much worse, but aren't.
Jake is leaving Thursday next week and until then we are just enjoying this family time together. We just love our girls so much and are so thankful for all the prayers and thoughts you have all put our way.