Yesterday Shelly gave birth to the newest Basye family addition, Aida Shalom Basye. She was born May 4th, 2011 @ 4:11pm. Though she was born early at 37 weeks, due to Shelly's odd liver complication (which should resolve now that she has given birth), Aida is strong and healthy! She was 7lbs on the dot and 19.25 inches and came out screaming! Initially Aida looks a lot like Elijah, thus, a lot like Shelly (and the Ummel family). As Shelly says, "I guess your genes didn't win out again." Oh well, this is probably for the best! Aida doesn't have much hair, but what she does have is very light and blond... our red-headed grandmas argue that it is strawberry blond. Time will tell. :)
Shelly is also doing well and we have hopes of leaving the hospital tonight, once the 24-hour window is complete. Shelly was induced at 9am yesterday and went into labor about 3:30 or so. Good thing that labor went fast as the epidural didn't work! Not sure why, but she felt EVERYTHING. I feel sorry for all moms out there as birth looks incredibly difficult. But praise God that the end result was worth it, a beautiful little girl. Soon those memories of the pain will be long forgotten!
Both Mimi and JuJu (both grandmas) came to help out with the kids and welcome their newest granddaughter. Ellie and Elijah are having a great time and were very excited to see their new sister. Ellie loves to hold and kiss her while Elijah likes to take pictures of her with his camera.
Praise God for a healthy baby and mom!
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| Minutes after giving birth |
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| Aida making a sad face |
2 comments:
congrats guys!! so glad all went well-except that pain part :( can't wait to meet her!
Praising God for the newest Basye, she is beautiful!
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