Photography By Bethany

Luke's cousin Bethany is an amazing photographer. She does this really neat package called Bellies to Babies. She takes maternity, newborn, 3, 6, 9, 12 month pictuers all for one price. Her website is http://www.photographybybethany.com/ if you want to check her out. She is extremely talented and I love everything that she does. She also does weddings, children and family photography, so if you are looking for a great photographer check her out. Here are the ones she has done for us so far.

Maternity

Knox 10 Days Old Newborn Session

Thanks again Bethany! I love every picture, you make it so hard to choose!
Knox is already four months old and he looks so different already. I will post pictures of his three month session when I get them back!

I don't think I have taken enough pictures of my child

I was looking through my folders on my computer of all the pictures I have taken since Knox was born and there were about 400 photos of him! Is that too many? Ha! I don't think I will ever stop taking pics of him. I may be a little biased, but I think he is the cutest baby ever! Everyone tells me so, however, hopefully no one would tell me he was an ugly baby! I would probably burst into tears. Anyway, here are some pics that I have taken of him in the first few weeks of his life. I have calmed down on the photo taking, but I love my camera and now that he is becoming more active and doing more things, I will probably fall back into the obsessive mamarazzi!

1 week old

Cousin Christian with Knox is the bassinet that Uncle Ben made.

One Month Old

And baby makes three...

Knox Kermit was born on January 8 2012. We had just moved into our house on December 31. On Saturday, I was madly cleaning the house, because I knew the baby was coming soon, and thankfully my mom was there to help me. I had been having contractions since Thursday, but they would come for a few hours and then go away completely. I hated it, it was the longest waiting game I had ever encountered. I went for a  long walk that morning and then started cleaning. We cleaned everything... the toilets, the floors and the basement. I think I may have even moved a couch! But finally around 3 o'clock we took off for the hospital. Then it was another waiting game. The doctor broke my water about 7 and then finally at 4:28 am on Sunday morning our beautiful baby boy was born. Knox was 7lbs and 6 ounces and 19.5 inches long. After pushing for two hours, he was finally here! I can't imagine my life without him! He has been a blessing to our lives and we are truly blessed!

 We had many visitors, which was a blessing. We had been in that hospital room for too long and loved all of the company. Everyone was extremely excited to meet baby Knox!

On Monday we got to go home.

However, we didn't get to stay there for long. The next day after going home, a home health aide called to ask if we wanted them to do a courtesey check in the home. I thought that Knox may be a little yellow looking, so I had her come out to check for jaundice. And yes, he had it. Looking back now in those pictures (like the one above) he looked like a pumpkin. So we had a ultraviolet light that was to be around his stomach at all times.

After a few days of that, it didn't seem to be working and his levels had spiked, so we went back to the hospital for IV fluids.

We were there for three days, but his levels finally started to go down. He layed under a full body light and had continous IV fluids to flush out the blood cells that his immature liver couldn't handle yet. We did go home with the belly light again for a few days, but we all recovered.

Both times we were in the hospital, we had exceptional care. The nurses were amazing and Dr. Kramer was the best. I feel very fortunate to live so close to a hospital that can take care of these things! If any of my nurses or doctors read this, THANK YOU! You rock!