Bailey

Taylor and I had our first niece, Bailey, born on Saturday, April 18^th. We have had a few questions come our way about it so I thought it would be a good opportunity and topic for a post.

We knew on Friday night that our sister-in-law had went into labor. We were expecting to wake up to a phone call or a text saying she had been born. We received notification around 9am that she had been born a few hours earlier. It was exciting that we had a niece, but yes, it did still hurt. We were so excited for them and her, but we did hurt for us. Did we love them or Bailey any less? Absolutely not. We are so happy for them.

We weren’t able to go and see them until Sunday night. When I picked her up and she opened her eyes for me, I fell in love with her. It was fun to rock her and snuggle her. It was amazing to think she had just recently come from heaven and she was the one most recently with my babies. If only she could talk and tell me all about them.

My brother and sister-in-law were getting pretty stressed and panicked while we were there because Bailey wouldn’t take her binky and wouldn’t settle down very easily. Taylor took her and got her to take her binky right away and showed her how to put her hand on her binky to hold it in. She caught on right away. We now have many pictures of her holding her binky in. Taylor then had to show her parents how to give her the binky and calm her down. I made a quick trip to their house yesterday to see her and when I gave her the binky she immediately put her hand on it to hold it in. We will have to post some pictures as soon as her parents give us permission to.

We both love that little girl so much but it is still hard to hold her and think that we won’t have one of our own in our arms for at least two years probably. It is strange to feel so many different emotions about the situation at one time. It is something that can’t really be put into words. We have been told in blessings that when our turn comes it is going to be a much different situation and we are definitely already seeing how that is so true. Our situation and story will be so much different than theirs.

Even though it hurts, we have loved getting to see Bailey the couple times that we have been able to. We are excited to get to know her more. It is fun to have a little one to snuggle when the parents will let us, while we are waiting for our own little one to come.