Proud Parents and Grandparents

Bree's parents and both sets of grandparents are proud. Rick went home on Thursday (the day after we came home from the hopital after extending his ticket for Aubry's late arrival) and Cindy is leaving us on Monday. She will be sorely missed and has been a great help these first two weeks. Matt's parents are here with us on the webcam every night and are just as excited. They will get to see her for the first time in October when we come home for Spencer's wedding. It was good to finally get home from the hospital. Aubry likes her new room. There are lots of things for her to look at and she has lots of cute things to wear thanks to all of our friends, family and church family from home.

Aubry Nicole Mabery

Scariest Moment of Our Live

On Tuesday morning we had quite a scare. The nurse was in the room giving her a bath and Aubry all of a sudden stopped breathing. The nurses reacted quickly and were in our room (as was also the pediatrician) a good 15 minutes working on her while she was having trouble, giving her oxygen and trying to drain her airways with tubes. There were a few seconds where Aubry had turned completely blue and all Matt and I could do was hold hands and cry and watch. This is a picture of Aubry in the critical care baby unit where Mary had to go back and forth to feed her all day. Baby and Mom were both tired and very sore by the end of that day but both were doing fine and allowed to go home the next day. All tests on Bree came out fine. They never figured out the cause of Aubry’s incident but the best guess is that it was from milk coming the wrong way after being upset from the bath. This picture is of baby Bree holding Dad's hand.

Giving birth in Brazil

Mary Virginia was in labor for 19 hours before the doctor decided she needed to have a C-section because the baby was not dropping. In Brazil 94% of babies born are born cesarean. And although Mary Virginia wanted to have the baby normally, Brazil is probably the best place for a cesarean. It seemed like Aubry would come down and then go back up again. Cindy had had the same thing happen with Mary Virginia. Like mother like daughter. At 11:55pm on Sunday night August 12th(Father’s Day in Brazil), Aubry Nicole Mabery was born. Cindy and Rick and Randy Porter (their translator) got to see the whole operation from a window where they took lots of pictures. Cindy’s favorite picture is of the nurse presenting Aubry to Mary Virginia for the first time with Matt watching over them. Aubry, also known as baby “Bree” is beautiful and soooo sweet! Can’t wait for you to meet her!

Mary big and round

As per request here is Mary fat and beaming. We're doing fine. We'll keep you posted. Here, Mary is 40 weeks.

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No News

Sometimes no news is not good news. I wish I had more to tell you. We are still waiting. 40 1/2 weeks and counting.