Bridget Regan Vowler

The title of this post should actually read “Always ALWAYS listen to your mother.” After phone calls back and forth all day contemplating whether or not I was actually in labor, I finally decided that Mitch and I should head to Philly around 11PM Sunday night. After packing our bags, we made it to CHOP by 1:30AM and we had sweet Regan in our arms at 3:11AM. Needless to say, everything happened very quickly and we are SO very happy she’s here.

Right now, the doctors are waiting or her to be able to eat all her meals without the help of a feeding tube; right now she’s about halfway there. She’s a strong girl and has had multiple (standard) screenings. She also had her first post-partum echocardiogram and her heart is looking exactly as anticipated. We’ll be monitored by a cardiologist weekly once we’re discharged from CHOP. She will likely need medicine to manage fluid build-up around her heart, but that will depend on her symptoms as time passes.

Words can’t describe how happy we are she’s here and we will very likely  be home for the holidays! Looks like I’m in the clear for Christmas gifts this year as there’s no way I could buy a gift better than her.

Thank y’all so much for your continued thoughts and prayers and we’ll keep you updated as best we can! I actually have the least amount of pictures of her on my phone as I spend most of my time with her just staring at her beauty, but here are a few of my favorites I’ve captured so far..

(also on my list is to upgrade my phone as I keep running out of memory – on a related note, I really do not understand iCloud.)