Life with Mackenzie

Scott and I (and the rest of our families) are enjoying every minute on Mackenzie. We were discharged from the hospital the Saturday after I had her and on Sunday we had a family get together for her and Scott's birthday. It felt so good to be home and to sleep in our own bed and take a shower at home! I was sore for most of the week last week, but this week, I'm feeling much better. We took Mack to the doctor last Monday and she dropped quite a bit in her weight and of course it made me sad. But, my milk has come in and today when I took her back for a weight check, she gained back almost all of her birth weight! We have figured out that she likes to sleep more than eat, so we wake her up every 3 hours to eat and boy, does she eat like a champ! We didn't hear her cry as in I'm mad and I can scream cry until last Thursday when she had a huge blowout all over herself and my mom and she didn't like being naked and getting all cleaned off. Scott stayed home with us last Monday, and then he had to go back to work on Tuesday. I thought I would be ok, but I got very lonely. Even though I have Mack, it was strange to be home with just her. My mom came over on Wed. and stayed until Thursday night and that was so nice. She was kind enough to take us to Zaxby's and Wal-Mart on Wed. I was so ready to get out of the house, but was afraid to go too far so Wal-Mart it was! Then on Thursday night, Mackenzie got to see her daddy play softball. She was so excited to be going, that she slept through the whole game! :) On Friday, she was laying on my chest and she decided to lift her head up to look at me, and she kept it up for some time. And when she gets mad, she gets very strong, she stretches her legs straight out and throws her arms up. She has the most beautiful dark slate blue eyes and she loves to look around. On Saturday night, instead of waking her up for her 3:30 a.m. feeding, I let her sleep so she technically slept through the night. I fed her at 11:30 p.m. Saturday and she woke up at 6:30 a.m. Sunday ready to eat. She is such a great easy going baby! Scott and I are so in love!

September 4, 2008

Mackenzie Elizabeth is here! Here's the story of how she came into this crazy, wonderful world. I woke up around 4 a.m. on Sept. 4th to go to the bathroom, after I got back into bed, I realized that I had a bit of cramping. I had been to the doctor the day before and thought I was cramping from that. I was still only 1 and 1/2 cm dialated when I was there, so I didn't think that I was starting to labor. I couldn't get comfortable laying down, so I went into our livingroom to watch cartoons. I forgot how funny Popeye and Pink Panther are or maybe it was just funny because I couldn't sleep. :) Anyways, at 6:30 I decided to take a shower and wake Scott up, he quickly fell back asleep and I enjoyed the warm water. Scott got up at 7 and started to get ready for work. He started timing my contractions and at that point they were 3-5 minutes apart. At 7:30, I was hurting and told him that we needed to go somewhere. After cleaning the kitchen and starting the washing machine (I guess I was in denial!) we were ready to leave for the hospital, that was at 8 a.m. Scott was so calm the whole way even joking that 8 a.m. was probably the worst time to be heading into Marietta, he was right, it took an hour to get to the hospital! We got right next to the hospital and that's when my labor pains went to my back and I lost it, it hurt so bad and I was starting to panic. Once I was in triage, I was checked and was 5-6 cm and the contractions were right on top of each other. Within 30 minutes, I was admitted to labor and delivery and had the epidural. I was so much calmer after that. I could still feel the pressure from each contraction, but I was able to breath through them. My mom got to the hospital at 11 a.m. and Scott's parents got there at 11:30 a.m. Everything moved very quickly. I sat at 10 cm for about an hour with hopes that Mackenzie would drop down more and that would help with the pushing. At 2:30 p.m. everyone but Scott left the room and I started pushing. I pushed for a little over an hour and Mackenzie entered the world at 3:37 p.m. it was the most amazing thing ever. She weighed in at 8 lbs. 1 oz. and 18 and 1/2 inches long. I guess she will get her lack of height from her momma, but that's ok! I couldn't have asked for a better labor and delivery nurse and the doctor that delivered Mackenzie was great. The neatest thing about the whole experience is that Mackenzie and her daddy will share birthdays-Mack was born one day before Scott and he loves his little birthday present!


Our happy little family!
Scott and I can't stop staring at her.
Scott holding his baby girl.