What a Surprise!!

So I was just reading over my last post... funny the first question I asked was now that we have scheduled to be induced will she come?? Hours after I posted that we were on our way to the hospital!! Funny how things work out!

Here's a quick summary of what happened after the last post...

9:00 PM Went to bed- had contractions all day 5-10 mins apart... I was tired!
9:10 Contraction!!! OMG the pain! Haven't had that much pain with the others!
11:00 Got out of bed to walk around and get ready to go!
12:00 AM At gas station calling Dr! Contractions 3-4 mins apart.
1:00 Arrived at Zeeland Hospital. Contractions 3 mins apart.
3:00 Contractions 1-2 mins apart... hopped in jacuzzi tub!
4:30 EPIDURAL!!!! And Pitocin!!!
6:30 Water broke

This is when we thought we would start
progressing at a cm an hour....
so a baby by 9-10!!
5CM!!

More and more and more pitocin

2:30 PM More pain meds and more pitocin! 9 CM 100% thinned
3:00 Start pushing...

And 19 hours later....
4:07 Makenzie Marie was born!! 8 lbs 19" long! Thank God she is out!!!! I was totally over the whole labor thing! :0)

We left the hospital that Saturday... then headed over to Grandma and Grandpa's to pick up Ruger and head home!

On that next Monday, Dec 20th we had her first dr's appt! What fun. She was back up to 7lb 12 oz (when she left the hospital she was at 7lb 9oz)! We had them look into a bump we found on her back and ended up having to go in for an ultrasound to see what that was all about! Scary waiting for the radiologist to look over the ultrasound along with the tech! All is well tho. It is called hemangeoma. Which is a cluster of unused blood vessels. And actually it is pretty much gone already! It is something that can stick around on someone for years!

Matt just said God put a little pea on her back to remind us of what a sweet pea she is!! How cute is that!!!

Our Christmas was great! Helps that you have a great baby around that sleeps most of the time and in chunks of 4 hours! Matt made a nice dinner for us on Christmas Eve; Christmas day we went to Mom and Dad G's house for a great dinner, then Monday my family came down! Makenzie did great with all the attention!



At her two week appt she grew another 2 inches!!! In 2 weeks 2 inches!! Crazy! And is back above her birth weight weighing in at 8lb 4 oz! And we no longer have to wake her up in the middle of the night to eat! But we are pretty much on the same schedule... she just wakes up maybe 10 mins after we would have set the alarm :0)

Okay.... Baby is hungry! I will continue later!! Now that I'm semi caught up it's time to get behind again! :0)