Baby Girl is Here....Tatum Rose Mullins

Erik, Natalie, and Tatum at Memorial NICU

Dad and Tatum just getting home

Dad and Tatum

Sleeping Tatum

Tatum's first bath

Erik and I wanted to take a moment to thank all of you for your love and support as we welcome our baby girl, Tatum Rose Mullins, into our lives. She was born on her due date, May 30th at 9:02 pm and weighed 8 lbs. 6 ounces and was 20" long. She has a full head of light brown hair with blonde roots (maybe a potential childhood blondie like her father?), big blue eyes, dainty fingers and toes, puckered lips, broad shoulders (definitely a Rose girl) and my dimple chin. Many say she looks like me and many say just like Erik...but we like to think of it as the perfect combination of the two of us put together!

As I am sure many of you have heard, it was a bit of a rough labor and delivery that ended in an emergency c-section. Erik and I were so fortunate to have both of our families there for support considering that Tatum had a pin size hole in one of her lungs and meconium respiration. Unfortunately, Petalum Hospital is not set up and capable of handling newborn illnesses; therefore, she and Erik were emergency ambulanced to Memorial Hospital in Santa Rosa while I stayed behind to recover after the surgery. As a brand new mother (or mother of any kind in fact)--Words cannot describe how difficult it was for me to be away from Tatum and Erik for any length of time; therefore, I proved to the nurses at Petaluma that I am a fast healer and they let me join Tatum at Memorial Hospital early Sunday morning--maybe a tad bit too early but a mom has to do what a mom has to do. I got to stay with her in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit all Sunday and Monday until she was cleared of all infections and the small puncture in her lung was 100% healed. The poor baby had already been through more than anyone can imagine so I was very relieved when Erik got to bring home both of us on Monday evening, June 1st. We were overjoyed to finally have our little family at home and healthy.

So now we have a wonderful and amazingly easy week old baby girl to love and spoil! Of course, we are a bit sleepy and doing our absolute best to figure out a "schedule" if that is even at all possible to do ! We have had many wonderful visitors and welcome anyone who would like to come and take a peek at our new love bug! She loves to be awake and starring at her adoring parents, but at the same time loves to fall asleep our on chests or in her new pram from my mom and dad...she is already very chic baby! Erik is off for three weeks so we are happy to have this time together and can't wait until we feel confident enough to take her on outings such as Sonoma Farmers Market and various summer events and parties! She has been on several walks and falls asleep immediately in anything that moves (ha ha...just like her mom and I am very proud)!

I can hear her starting to awaken so we must go and tend to the little angel! Again, thank you so much for your sweet thoughts, calls, cards, and gifts! We love you all!