Words from the Williams: Hospital Time

Grace and I spent 3 1/2 days in the hospital. Although I'm not a huge fan of hospitals, I must say it was a very pleasant stay. The nurses at Home Hospital were amazing! They were so supportive and kind. Mark stayed in the hospital with us the first night. We sent Grace to the nursery so we could get some shut eye and they brought her back every few hours for a little midnight snack :-) My mom stayed the second night so Mark could get some much needed rest -- sleeping in a recliner is not very fun. And Mark was back for our final night in the hospital. It was such a special time of bonding for our little family. Each day we took walks in the hall, going a little bit farther everyday as I tried to get my strength back. They took my IV out on Saturday morning and released me to walk all the way to the door of my hospital room and look out the hall -- it sounds funny but you can't imagine how much work that seemed like at the time. But by Monday morning we were doing the complete hall -- being very careful not to get too close to the doors at the end of the hall because they had put a chip on a tag they had on Grace's cord that would set off an alarm if we went out the doors (isn't it crazy that they have to do that?!?!)

Peaceful naked baby

Okay, maybe I'm not so happy being a naked baby...

Daddy makes it all better!

Eyes wide open!

We had several very special visitors while we were at the hospital. Of course all of the grandparents came to see their little grandbaby, as did Aunt Amy and Uncle Greg, some of our friends from Purdue, and even one of my friends from St. Louis who happened to be in town for the weekend. We didn't get photos of everyone but here are a few.