Update

It's been forever since I have updated here. I just wanted to let everyone know that Gatlin Grant Standifer was born 4 weeks ago on 9/10/10 at 7:49am. He weighed 9lbs. 4 oz. and was 23 in. long. He was born 18 days early... the same number of days his brother lived. I found that interesting.

Since Gatlin has arrived, life has been good, but he does make me miss Maxton more. I can't believe my Max would be 19 months old now! I wonder how he would be with his brother. We have already been telling Gatlin about his angel brother. I am sure he will grow up knowing about Maxton and loving him just as we do. I posted Gatlin's birth story and some pictures on our family blog. Please feel free to visit it!

www.ourstandiferfamily.blogspot.com

Will Max have a brother or sister?

We had an ultrasound on Sat, at 15 weeks, to see if they could tell the sex of the baby. We are fairly certain Maxton will have a little.... BROTHER!!!! Let me know what you think!

I am excited. We will have an ultrasound in May to confirm this and more importantly to make sure the little one is healthy! We are planning to name him Gatlin Grant!

In other news, I have decided to start a new blog about our life. I do not want to continue to post about this pregnancy here as I want this blog to be used for CDH awareness and to be seen by families who need it. Our new blog is- www.ourstandiferfamily.blogspot.com

Please visit the new blog for updates about the pregnancy and our lives. I plan to only post things related to Max and CDH here.

Thanks for checking in on us!

Happy birthday baby boy!!!

A year ago tonight, my Maxton was born. This time a year ago, I was in the hospital anxiously awaiting my fighters arrival and watching The Biggest Loser. :-) I was terrified that I would be in the position I am in today. When he was born, he did not cry. He was such a shade of purple, that I was scared. But, after some work and ventiallation he pinked up and looked pissed that he was no longer safe inside mommy... and frankly, I was upset too! He was beautiful. I only saw him for a few minutes from across the room while the team of doctors worked on him (he seriously had like 10 people all to himself!)... but he was beautiful. He was then taken to be stabilized... I was taken to my room and waited for them to call. They were supposed to call in about and hour and a half to let us know his status. He was born at 11:30... we didn't hear from anyone until about 4am. I would have been worried, but I had fallen asleep. They called and told he was doing great! I was skeptical, but excited... and my mom took me to officially meet my little man. He was sooo big. Much bigger than I expected... He looked so much like me. I loved him sooooo much and was so worried that he wouldn't be here today.

Happy birthday little man!!! Mommy will never forget the day you were born- one of the days that changed her life forever.

Big Brother Maxton!

So, we found out on Friday that we are expecting again! Tentative due date is Sept. 25th. I am very excited, yet terrified all at the same time. :-)

We decided to go ahead and share the news with everyone because we could certainly use the prayers and good thoughts. I know that our newest "soybean" (because he was conceived using soy- if you are having trouble getting pregnant, let me know because I am confident the soy helped...) has the best group of angels watching over him. i don't know what God's plan for this pregnancy is, but I pray that come Sept. we will be bringing home a beautiful baby! I just wanted to share our good news with you all so that you can call be praying....