As many of you know this has been a long road in pregnancy and just to give a little background about the baby we had found out at 20 weeks that she has a congenital heart defect and after weeks of neonatal cardiology visits and hoping that I don't go early yesterday during a ultrasound a hole was found in my uterous and I needed an emergency c-section. Arlyn Taydem Mackin arrived by c-section at 14:59 on February 20, 2017 absolutely perfect in all the ways she could. She was wisked away to NICU as planned and two IVs were placed. She was given Calcium gluconate (not abnormal for cardiac patients) After about 2 hours in recovery Scott and I were able to go over and see her, she was doing great! At which point last night she continued on room air and continued with stable vital signs. A central umbilical line was placed last night and she was started on additional fluid and prostaglandins to keep her heart holes open. WE visited her agin at about 00:30 and she was tired but continues to do well. 

Mom is doing fine and excited to see Arlyn through out the day today. In Lieu on flu season the people that are able to visit is restricted to grandparents and mom and dad only. If you would like to come see Carriann there is a visiting restriction of up to 3 people at a time and all others would have to wait in designated waiting areas. Please come back to blog for updates, I will try and update every couple of days and with events or news about Arlyn.