Here Is The Story

Here is Bella & Joy's story. Don't worry I've edited it for you.

On Monday afternoon I started having contractions, this continued throughout the night. By Tuesday morning my contractions were about ten minutes apart. It stayed this way all day, I went for walks, took hot showers, cleaned house and drank lots of water. Then around 8:00pm I decide that it was time to go to the hospital. So we went. (Now you have to understand, at our hospital things are a little slow. Unless you're in active labor) So we get to the hospital, they check me when I arrive, I'm only dilated to 3 cen. Then I 'm sent to get an ultrasound so my fluid can be checked and measured. When the results came back my fluid was at four percent. ( Much too low) Then i was checked again and dilated to 4. So I was admitted about 11:30. As they walked me to the room I told my nurse " I need an epidural ASAP" I got to my labor and delivery room around 1:30. Got the IV put in. Received my my epidural about 2:00am, about that time I was dilated to 6 cementers. The doctor said if I was not dilated to 10 cementers by six a.m. To induce me and that is what happened. At 6:00am I was induced. Around 7:45am I was 10 cementers. But the nurse said don't push your doctor is in surgery, He'll be out in about 20 min's. So I waited their 20 minutes. Then told the nurse the doctor better get here now baby is coming. They started frantically preparing the room. The doctor got there gave a little pep talk then I started pushing. Three minutes later my Bella, Bella was born. The End

(Really the Beginning).

Here are some pictures.

Lots of love, Joy

After the Epidural

Insane contractions^^^

PUSH - GRUNT -PUSH

Ahh, there's the Baby

All Done!

Here is the Baby

Bella and Daddy

Marky meeting Bella

Marky loves his Bella

Perfect Fit

I'm going to love you

FINALLY ISABELLA-ARIEL IS HERE

Drum Roll Please!

On April 22, 2008

At 8:34 am

Weighing in at 6lbs. and 13oz

And 20 inches in length

Isabella-Ariel Soledad Hogle has ARRIVED!

THANK GOD FOR A SAFE AND QUICK DELIVERY!

AND THANK GOD FOR OUR BUNDLE OF JOY!

This is me 40 weeks pregant

My Husband calls this my Isabelly

Well so far, no baby yet!

I know, I know, this time next week I will be holding a precious baby girl. My mom calls me everyday saying " anything yet?" or "how are you?". To which I respond "NO nothing" or "I'm doing GREAT! ahhhha!"

On a Marky note; he is slowly but surly getting over his cold.

Well since we've been home from the Hospital Mark has seemingly been fine. As I write he has caught a cold. You know the cough and runny nose. I talk to his Doctor yesterday and he said if the cold gets worst, Mark doesn't get better or maintains a fever, to give him a call back. So, say a prayer for him. ( I hate colds). On a "me" note I am ready to deliver anytime!!! Really like like any second, any minute, any hour, any day, and with-in the next week! I'm ready! I hate the feeling of waiting and waiting. I'm only dilated to TWO so it could happen today or next week. I'm praying for today. Tomorrow is good too. We'll see.

RE-ADMITTED :(

Well last week on Tuesday Mark had to be re-admitted back into the UCLA hospital. Let me tell you the story. On Sunday & Monday I noticed Marky had a cough. You see we live in the desert and with the heat on I figured since it was a dry cough no problem. However on Tuesday His cough sounded like an I'm getting sick (kinda) cough. So i called his Doctor Cardiologist, explained the situation then ask at what point should we bring him in! He said bring Mark in today. So we did. When we reached UCLA we got Mark's Blood work done, then his X-ray. After all that we went to meet with the doctors. They found that Mark's right lung was 80% filled with fluid. In doctor talk this is called a "Plural Infusion". Opposed to pneumonia which is called "infiltration" on the lung. Also pneumonia is an infection. So Mark did not have pneumonia but he did have fluid in his lung. There was absolutely no symptoms of having that amount of fluid in the lung. Some of his symptoms should have been, difficult breathing, stomach pains due to the lung weighing down on it or drowsiness. Nada, nothing ( it's scary to think of the "what ifs"). On Wednesday Mark got a chest tub put in in order to drain all the fluid. So they drained a little more then "ONE LITTER" OF fluid! I was so dumb-founded when the told me this! HOW WAS THERE NO SYMPTOMS?!?! HOW! The bottom line is we stayed at the hospital from Tuesday - Saturday. They could not find the cause of the fluid so Mark is taking 7 different medications! It's almost a full time job just keeping up with everything. We now need to see the doctors every two weeks. As to catch or prevent any other complications that may arise.
Please don't ask how I'm going to do it. I have No idea! There is one week and four day till my due date. Well Mark was in the hospital I was having Braxion Hicks it really freaked the nurses out. So I had to be admitted for observation. But now, we're home trying to get everything ready for Baby Isabella. Thank you for listening to my rants. PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR FAMILY. WE NEED IT RIGHT NOW!