After seven long weeks in the Georgetown NICU, our little girl is finally home with us! We could not be happier. She is gorgeous, and super smart, and we are entirely in love with her.

She was born on August 29 at 10:19 p.m. and she weighed 7 pounds, 12 ounces.  About 12 hours after birth, she started spitting up green stuff.  It turned out that she had a hole in her intestine.  She had to be transferred from the hospital where I gave birth to Georgetown University Hospital, where she underwent surgery.  They weren’t able to entirely fix her the first time around, and so she had to stay in the hospital until she had her second surgery on October 4.  Then, finally, last week, she was able to come home with us.

It has been a pretty difficult two months.  Having a baby in the NICU is a miserable experience, even though the doctors and nurses try so hard to make it as easy as possible.  They really are wonderful (and some of them are knitters!) and we are eternally grateful not only that they saved our baby, but that they took such amazing care of her and us for seven weeks when we had to be apart a lot of the time.

I feel like I’m cheating a little bit, since this is supposed to be a knitting blog.  Well, as you can see, there is a FINISHED OBJECT in the photo!  I made Marjorie a Baby Surprise Jacket  out of Koigu.  I’m in love with the little bird buttons.  Fortunately, I made it a little large, so it should fit her for another fifteen minutes or so.  She is growing so fast!