We have a new baby in the family!!! Molly Marie Hellenbrand was born at Meriter Hospital in Madison on April 2 to proud parents Jenny and Steve Hellenbrand. Matt and I went to meet her tonight. She is the cutest baby I’ve ever seen! I couldn’t believe how perfect her skin/complexion was. Most babies I’ve visited are red or purple with bumps here and there, but not Molly, she was perfect. Jenny said she scored a 10 on the “Apgar” (The Apgar score was devised in 1952 by Virginia Apgar as a simple and repeatable method to quickly and summarily assess the health of newborn children immediately after childbirth. The Apgar score is determined by evaluating the newborn baby on five simple criteria on a scale from zero to two and summing up the five values – Appearance, Pulse, Grimace, Activity, Respiration).
Molly slept while I held her, she was so peaceful and sweet……………. until the nurse came in and decided to take her blood pressure. Molly squirmed a little bit while the nurse connected the device to her arm, but remained quiet long enough to obtain a good reading, however, then the nurse had to connect the device to her ankle which meant we had to unwrap Molly from her nice tight blanket bundle, needless to say she wasn’t too happy with that. Eventually the nurse finally gave up and said she’d come back and try again later. I got up out of the chair and swayed around with her for a little bit in attempt to bring her back to relaxation. That may have helped decrease the volume in her cry, but didn’t stop it all together. That’s when I turned her back over to Mom. It was beautiful to watch Jenny and Steve with the baby. We’re so, so happy for them………….
