Evelyn Marie Olsen

Evelyn Marie Olsen was born August 25, 2008 at 1:31 pm. She weighed 6 lbs. 14 oz. and was 20 in. long. Once I finally started progressing good things went really well. I was woken up at 6 am with pretty bad contractions. We decided to go to the hospital at about 7 am. Russell's mom came up to watch the kids and we got to the hospital, in Gunnison, around 8 am. The epidural (the best things ever) went in around 10 am. I had been looking forward to the epidural for months. Anyway, the doctor broke my water around 11:30 am and I started pushing around 1:15 pm. She was born on the 4th set of pushes.

Mom feeding Evelyn her first bottle

Kenyon holding Baby Evelyn

Grandma Olsen

Kyler

Grandma Slim (Russell's grandma) Grandpa Slim (Russell's Grandpa)
Kaylee and Kenyon helping mom feed Evelyn

Kaylee feeding Evelyn
Grandpa Henningson


Baby Evelyn sleeping peacefully after a busy day.

It was so nice to have a baby close enough to family that they could come and visit so soon. Aunt Charlotte, my Aunt Linda, and my Aunt Marilyn also came and visited but Russell didn't get pictures of them, sorry. Anyway we came home yesterday, August 26th around 6 pm. Evelyn and mom are dong well, actually mom is feeling better than she has for 2 months. As you can tell from the pictures, she is loved and her siblings are really excited for her to finally be here. We can't wait for her to meet Grandma Henningson and for her to give Evelyn a bath, since that is grandma's favorite thing to do for babies. She is slowly improving and is more alert everyday.

Another Update

Well, I'm still pregnant and I'm not too excited about it, but I guess it's good for Evelyn. I'm still having the contractions pretty much five minutes apart. They are progressing me very, VERY slowly. If I have not had Evelyn by Thursday, August 28th, my doctor will induce me. It's nice to know that there is a definite end in sight.

We have decided that we will have the baby blessing on Sunday, September 7th. Our Sacrament Meeting is first and starts at 9:30 am. We will have a lunch at our house probably around 1:00pm, but the time is not finalized on that yet.

For those of you who don't know, these past few months have been difficult for my family. About mid-July my mom was put in the hospital for bleeding ulcers in her colon and for blood clots in her legs and lungs. Both of those problems are serious, but they are also difficult to treat when you have both of them. She was in the hospital for about a month when they sent her home for her to get stronger so she could have surgery. She was only home for about 5 days, when she was rushed back to the hospital for emergency surgery. They removed her spleen, because blood clots cut off the blood to it so it died, they removed her colon, because the ulcers were not improving and causing more issues, and they scrapped an abnormality off her liver. She had the surgery last Tuesday, August 19th, and still has not completely come to yet. She is in the ICU and is slowly improving, but still has the blood clots to deal with. It has been really difficult on my dad and the rest of our family. I have not been able to go see her in the hospital, because she is in Salt Lake (about 2 1/2 hours away) and I'm nine months pregnant and very uncomfortable so I can't travel that far. Hopefully we will be able to go up shortly after Evelyn is born, and then hopefully mom will be more responsive too. Anyway, I guess I've vented enough for now.

We will post pics as soon as we can after Evelyn decides to join us.