A night apart

Well the hospital kept Terra overnight last night because she lost so much blood. Saturday morning at 3 am Terra nudged me and said I am bleeding again. We called some wonderful friends from the ward and dropped Maylee off and we went to the ER again. They did another ultrasound and decided to admit Terra because during the week her hemoglobin had dropped to 9. They performed a D&C and then the doctor spoke with me. Right after he was finished they called the doctor back into OR because Terra was bleeding too much. They gave her a medicine to cause the uterus to contract and checked Terra to see if she might need a transfusion. Her hemoglobin had dropped to 7 so they did not want to let Terra go home. I knew I would have to go watch our beautiful daughter, but I have never left Terra alone in the hospital overnight before. It was so hard to leave her so sick. We spoke to each other about 4 times throughout the night. Maylee was very well behaved for me. I did enjoy rocking her to sleep, but it was very different to be alone with my daughter. I have been taking care of her alot during these last two weeks, but Terra was always around if I didn't know what to do. Anyway, Terra was discharged today and is home. This short night of separation from my sweetheart has made my heart swell. I love her! She is my life! I feel so grateful to have her in my life! I said many a prayer during this last week to thank my Heavenly Father for such a wonderful wife and daughter. We have been well taken care of during this as we have many friends who helped out. We could not have done this without them. Thanks!

Crazy ER visit

Okay so the other day I just started bleeding out of nowhere. We were just finishing feeding Maylee and Timothy was changing her diaper I I felt something warm like I had just wet my pants except it kept coming and I had no control over it. It was crazy! I hurried into the bathroom and luckily didn't get any blood on the carpet. Everything is good now, at least the doctors aren't concerned so we are trying not to be. So when we got home from the ER Timothy thought it looked like one of those "murder scenes" from the movies so we took some pictures. It was pretty crazy.

more pics

okay so Adam came to me after we ate and looked at

my belly and said "WOW Terra, you were REALLY hungry."

Crazziness and love

Well the last couple of weeks have been crazy and amazing. I finished school with a 4.0 the last semester, we had lots of family over for my birthday and Maylee's birth, and we had Maylee. It was full of fun crazy things. We really enjoyed having everyone over and playing hard. We had Emily, Alma, Mom Smoot, Tamina, Ari, Adam, and Sarah. It was sooo super fun. We went to the train park, went swimming everyday, and just basically had a blast.
One of the really crazy things that happened was that I was going to be induced sunday Aug 2nd so we were all ready and waiting for the time to go and the hospital said they were to full that day. SO basically we had to wait. They said they would call us when they had an open room so we waited, and waited, and waited. Finally monday night I called again and they said they were still too full so we continued to wait. Then Tuesady we called again and they said the same thing. By this time it was really frustrating. Finally Tuesday night I called and they said hopefully befor 7am the next morning I could come in. Well then I started to contract every 7 min through most the night and we thought that we were just going to go in on our own when they called at 4 am and told us we could come in 1 hour. It was super crazy waiting, but everything turned out great and Maylee was born on her due date!
They kids really enjoyed seeing thier cousin and holding her.

Maylee Pearl Bowden

Well we finally have Maylee here! She is very healthy and cute. She came on Wed Aug 5th at 7:04 pm and is supper cute and cuddly. She was 7lbs 13oz and 20 3/4 inches long. Mommy and baby are doing well and adjusting. Timothy makes a great daddy and love to hold her and rock her. My sister did a short photo shoot the day we got home from the hospital so here are some of the pics.