A New Year!

As most of you know, I am not the best at blogging. In fact whenever I do blog it is mostly pictures. I am going to try to do better this year! It is just hard to find time to do anything when you have a newborn that ALWAYS wants to be held. :-)

Our little family had an eventful 2010, overall one of the best years of my life! Last January Corey told me that his resolution was getting into a nurse anesthesia program. I am going to be honest, I didn't think it would happen. Mostly because it's so competative. But, I should of had more faith in him being very qualified! We only needed to apply to three schools: Mayo Clinic, Charleston Area Medical Center(CAMC), and Raleigh School of Nurse Anesthesia. To make a long story short, he was accepted to CAMC, and Raleigh. Going to Raleigh, North Carolina was our first pick, so we will be leaving the first week in August to move to N.C. for at least two years! We are very excited for the challenges ahead of us, and I must say that I am SO proud of Corey. He has jumped through so many hoops and worked so hard for this!

We found out that Corey was accepted to Raleigh on November 29, 2010, and the next day our baby boy was born (November 30th, at 10:57 p.m.)! We had a lot of excitement in just a few days, and we are feeling so blessed and grateful to our Heavenly Father. Many of you already know that my labor and delivery went very well, in fact I was shocked at how great it was! However, the nurse- midwife informed us that the placenta had a velamentous cord insertion. She just kept saying we were lucky to have Jack, and that the condition is very rare. When I was able to look it up on the internet, and read other peoples stories I couldn't stop crying. Most people who have that condition with the placenta end up having a stillborn. I thought I was over all the crying, until I went to my six week check-up (this past Monday). I asked my nurse-midwife about the placenta again, and she said, "You are lucky to have Jack, a few weeks ago I had a lady who was 38 weeks pregnant, and we couldn't find the heartbeat of the baby. She and her husband had three girls, and this was going to be their little boy. Their baby died in utero, and when it was born the placenta had the same condition, I kept thinking about you and Corey". Well, I started crying, she was crying...I asked her how she does her job, and she said, "When it's good, it is really good, but when it's bad, it's really bad". I spent the rest of the day in an emotional state, feeling sad for those who have lost their babies and overwhelmed that Jack is such a miracle.

 

 Jack Corbin Anderson

2 Weeks Old