Introducing...

Miss Naomi Louise Towns

(Just to make sure everyone knows she is ours!)

Matt and I both had a great-aunt named Naomi and they were both wonderful women.  As we were discussing names, we both fell in love with it.  

Louise is my middle name, as well as a family name on both sides.

 

Naomi was born at exactly 36 weeks, and weighed exactly 6 pounds.  We think she might have aspirated some amniotic fluid into her lungs, and so she's in the NICU right now.  Yesterday her NICU doctors decided that it was best to put her on a ventilator, and they needed lines run into her umbilical cord for blood draws, etc.  

By 6:30 this morning she was off the vent, and by 10:00 AM the lines were out of her umbilical cord.

Right now Naomi has to be on antibiotics for at least 72 hours.  There is a concern that she has pneumonia, but we haven't been able to talk to her doctor yet.  If she does, it just means a bit more antibiotics and a little longer hospital stay.  Not our favorite thing to have happen, but definitely doable!

We are headed back over to the NICU in an hour, and we'll get to hold and snuggle our precious little girl.  We get to start changing diapers and doing some of her other basic care today, and we couldn't be happier about it. 

This morning she was kind of fussy, so the nurse gave her the pacifier we had sent to the NICU with her.  I tried to see if I could easily flick it out of her mouth, and she had such a grip on it!  Sucking on that pacifier is her job & she's great at it!  

Naomi was born with light brown hair, and it looks like when it gets a bit longer, it will have a distinct curl to it!  (Or so her momma hopes!)