Rockin' Robbins

I keep putting off updating this blog with my big news because I have SO MUCH news to share.

I have taken a LOA from work and am being a full time mom for as long as I can afford it (a couple of months??). Right now that means staying at the Ronald McDonald House in Saint Petersburg, Florida. This way I can walk to Bayfront Medical Center and be with Amy to feed her and love on her as much as I want. The house is great. It is a luxury to be here.

The nurses and PA's at the nurserey are fantastic. They all know my face and name there as I am a regular by now. They also call Amy by the name we are giving her as opposed to her legal name. (We cannot move forward with the adoption legal work until she is released from the hospital...we are hoping for December 31st).

Mike is on his way down from Atlanta for Christmas weekend. I know he is dying to see her again. He only got to see her Wednesday night through Saturday afternoon last week because he has alot going on at work back in Atlanta.

Amy is slowly and carefully being weened off of methadone which is the drug that her birthmother was taking under clinical supervision throughout her pregnancy. Methadone is used to block the effects of other drugs, specifically opiates. The birthmother was trying to break her oxycontin habit when she found out she was pregnant. Once you are pregnant, you cannot stop taking methadone or you will have contractions with withdrawal.

Here she is, Amy Virginia Robbins. She has a feeding tube in some of the pictures, but that was removed shortly after we arrived. She has been eating great ever since. The thing in her hand is Mike's ring, just to give some scale.