Oakley is 11 weeks old

Oakley is now 11 weeks old. She has really started coming out
this week. I stopped giving her the reaglan on Monday. So far
she has had no signs of reflux but she is still taking the
Zantac. She is staying awake a lot more and is able to interact
with us. One of the side affects of the reaglan is drowsiness. Oakley
was sleeping 18 hours a day and when she was awake she was eating.
Now she is talking (baby noises) and she laughed out loud for the
first time today.
Oakley is a little spoiled but I tell everyone that she isn't that
she is just LOVED a whole lot, which is very true.
We are so Blessed to have a little girl in our lives to go with
our 3 wonderful boys.
Christopher and Peyton finished CRCT testing this week and Auston
is getting prepared for end of year finals. He will be getting his
learners license this June. It is scarey having a new baby and a teen
age driver all in the same year.
Brian has been having to go out of town on Tuesday for work, It hasn't
been to bad the boys are all great helpers. It is only hard on the
weeks that Christopher or Peyton have ball games.


Warm hugs and Love to everyone. May God Bless you all

Love Sheree

10 weeks 3 days

Oakley is now weighing in at 8lbs and we starting weaning
her off of the reaglan today. Since she has had no
signs of reflux we thought that we would try her off of
it to see if she would be able to go with out it. On the
reaglan she is sleeping around 18 hours aday. She spent
much more time awake with me today. It was nice being able
to play with her more and seeing her beautiful smile.She
is such a wonderful baby.

Last Sunday we were asked to tell Oakley's story at church.
Brian and I were both nervous but when we had finished I don't
think there was a dry eye in the church. Everyone had been
praying for our Oakley but not everyone knew what CDH was.
We are praying that telling 400 people that they will each
tell at least one other and so on.
Our youngest son was saved last Sunday also. So it was another
Blessed day at the Irvin home. God has and continues to Bless us
in so many ways. Our paster made a statement at the end of the
service that I have really thought about all week. He said that
Brian and I could have easily have turned our backs on God and
said how could he have done this to us but instead we turned to
God and ask that he guide us through. I can't imagine how anyone
can get through life without turning to God. He blessed us more
than we will ever deserve with giving us our Little Oakley. God
gets all the Glory for Oakley being here with us today. I thank
him everyday for her and our three wonderful boys.

Christopher and Peyton are both playing baseball and it was a beautiful
weekend for ball. Both boys pitched in their games Saturday and both had
amazing hits. Christophers team walked away with a win and Peyton's team
lost. Both had a wonderful time and that is what matters both.
Auston doesn't play baseball anymore but he likes to keep score for his
brothers.

Please continue to pray for all the families that are suffering from the
loss of their little angles. So many babies do not survive CDH and it has
to be less than 50% that do survive. I have followed 6 CDH Babies that were
due around the same time as Oakley and other than Oakley Baby Davis is the
only other survivor. This breaks our hearts,for those that are expecting CDH
Babies do not give up Hope.

Oakley's two month check up

Oakley had her 2 month check up today and the doctors remain in shock at
how well she has done. She is still on the small size, Oakley weighed in today
at 7 lbs. 14 oz and is now 20.75 inches long. She still isn't as big as anyone of
our boys at birth. Oakley also got her first round of shots today and I don't know
who it hurt more Oakley or me. The Doctor went ahead and put in for Oakley to recieve the RSV vaccine's this fall.She said that it is really hard to get children
approved for these shots because they are so expensive. She does feel that they will approve Oakley because of the CDH. Brian and I really do pray that this will happen our youngest son Peyton had RSV as a baby and it was hard enough on him and is had to healthy lungs.

Please continue to pray for baby Kaden, he came off ECMO yesterday but still has a battle ahead.

Thank you to everyone that continues to pray for our little Oakley she is a Miracle and we Thank GOD everyday for her.

Love Sheree

Oakley is 8 weeks and 1 day old.

Oakley is now 8 weeks and 1 day old. We have been home for 4 weeks today.
Oakley continues to do wonderful. Being our fourth child she is by far the best
baby that we have had. She sleeps well, eats well and is just such a joy to be with.
She does sleep most of the day and wakes up around 8pm and stays awake until 12am. She is starting to makes lots of noises and trys really hard to coo but nothing
has come out just yet. Oakley's brothers think that she is all that and then some.
Peyton our 7 year old calls her Oakley Doodle Bug and he tells her all the time that
she is a little miracle. Christopher or Fatback loves to play with her and loves to wake her up to talk with her. Auston our oldest thinks if she crys that someone is hurting her when all she needs is a diaper change or a bottle. I never would have thought that they would all be so wonderful with a little sister. All I can say is the boys will never knock on our door with these brothers.


Brian and I had prepared ourselves for so much, when we found out that our baby had CDH. I say this knowing that I never prepared myself for the worse, which would have been loosing her. We never concidered that to be an option for us. Some how we knew that she was going to be ok and God gave us that peace.

We pray for all CDH babies and their families daily. We have met some wonderful people through this whole thing and we know each day that we are amoung the few that are truely Blessed.