we're back and there are three of us.

but only for a moment.

It was a very very difficult delivery and I'm more than a bit ill. I can't quite walk yet, so James is having to do a lot of everything. I have to be careful not to end up back in the hospital, so I can't do much.

Miss Emily was 8.6 pounds born at 7.03 a.m. on April 25th 2002 after 36 hours of labor and 2 failed epidurals. It was the most wonderful and most difficult and most painful thing we've ever done. We adore her and we're terrified we're going to break her. We have to keep a close watch on her because she was so big and that concerns the docs. She was trying to breastfeed, but she won't now (frustrates too easily) and so we are having to bottle feed her much to my dismay. I'm trying to pump to keep up with the benefits, hopefully my milk will come in, because we think my colostrum did not.

We're overwhelmed and happy and my mail isn't working . You won't hear from us for awhile. I swear I wan to call and talk to you all (especially Jame's Mom and Scott Martini and Gwen and Matt and E and well all of you) but I'm really ill and on a lot of medication right now and Emily and cat integration 4.0 are taking up everything we have. Please understand.

The cats are completely freaked out and the hormones are finally making me absolutely a crazy person.

I hope this will tide you over.



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Please bear with us we'll be back in a few weeks. I might get to read your emails if my mail starts working and will read your comments in spurts but won't be able to respond.

much love

Jyllian, James and Emily

oh and

katrina...we wore your outfit for her first hospital pictures(we'll get actual prints)..took some on the digital camera too


but with the lens cap on.


We hadn't slept in three days by that point.