The Launch of Baby Carly's Web Site

Today's Baby Carly's own web site was officially launched...

www.carlylefelarbarr.com

We hope you enjoy her site. There are a lot of photos posted already, and more will be added on a regular basis.

This will be the final post to the pregnancy blog. Thank you for following Baby Carly's journey to life!

Baby Carly's First Week

Hello everyone!!!

Just a quick blog entry to let everyone know that Baby Carly and I have had a wonderful first week together. She's an absolute angel and never cries or fusses. Sleeps all the time. And I'm recovering quite nicely from my c-section.

And Mandy is doing very well with the adjustment as well!

The pictures above are Baby Carly's "first day" photos that were taken at the hospital.

And here's a link to an assortment of other photos from our first week together.

http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=pd7ndcz.2ubomcen&x=0&y=-lorsp4&localeid=en_US

Anita and I will soon be working on migrating this pregnancy blog into a long-term Carly web site. The address will be www.carlylefelarbarr.com. I'll send out a blast email once it has officially launched.

That's all the time and energy that I have for now. I have to go wake up Miss Carly for her midnight feeding.

Carly's First Day

The news from the Carly Camp over at Plantation General is that Carly is already a genious. Not only has she passed her hearing exam (Jen is already insisting she get good grades by asking the nurse whether she got an "A"), but she is learning to nurse and has filled 5 times as many diapers as the other babies. She's apparently robustly healthy...

Jen is feeling great, thanks to the fantastic pain management system in place at PGH. When I called today I was shocked to hear such a chipper "Hello, Anita!" especially only one day after surgery...Jen did say there's discomfort when she has to get up and walk, which the nurses have made her do 2 times, but it's manageable, even if the walking around part is not exactly Jen's favorite part of the day.

Grandma Jody has snapped a couple more shots...one of Carly (where Jennifer swears you can see she has Daddy Storm's ears!) and one of the giant stork that is now sitting on the front lawn at Jen's place to welcome them home!

I'll be dropping by tomorrow to bring Jen a decent lunch and generally walk around holding Carly and talking silly baby talk to her! I'll take more pics then...

More news tomorrow -- Anita

Carly Makes Her First Photo Appearance

For those of you keeping up, heeeeeeeeere's Carly!

Welcome to the World!

Please welcome Baby Carly...as of this posting, only 5 and a half hours old.

Carly was born at 12:50pm at Plantation General Hospital and weighed 6 lbs, 3 oz. She was 19 inches long! Grandma Jody says she has a nice little fuzz of light brown hair and beautiful pink cheeks...

Mom and baby are doing great and looking forward to coming home in a couple of days...

Pictures coming soon!

CarlyWatch-March 28: Start Your Engines...

Hi CarlyWatchers....the big news is coming our way today! Jen called this morning and it looks like the fluid levels never went up any further, and in fact, started to go back down, so the doctor says it's time to go get Carly!

It didn't happen at 7AM as expected but the c-section WILL happen today...Dr. C has appointments for c-sections every two hours on Fridays, so all that needs to happen is to slip Jen into one of those time slots, and approximately 30 minutes later, we'll have a baby...

Jen really appreciates all of your well-wishes...please keep her in your thoughts today as she prepares to bring her daughter into the world!

More news as it happens -- Anita

CarlyWatch-March 27, Part 2

Hello CarlyWatchers...more news from Plantation General this evening!

Looks like Jen is being prepped for a 7AM c-section...the doctor will perform the tests to determine if the fluid has increased significantly...if not, Jen will be whisked right into delivery on the assumption that the fluid levels are not going to get much higher. He thinks this is likely to be the case.

But Jen's ready! Her friend Vivian has already been over to the hospital and helped Jen wash her hair, paint her nails clear and generally get cleaned up in preparation for the fact that she's probably not going to feel much like primping after surgery. Check out this pic of the pretty mommy-to-be!

I'll have more in the morning...Fingers crossed, everyone! -- Anita