Baby Mackenzie

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Mackenzie Dance was born yesterday, September 22 at 11:38 am. She is perfect and healthy. She weighed 8.08 oz and was 19 in long. She has lots of dark brown hair, which I love. She loves sleeping. She also loves being wrapped up and warm. Her brothers love her. Jackson loves holding her. Jordan loves going up to her and pointing and saying baby. So far he hasn't tried to hurt her. We don't really know who she looks like. Sometimes we think Jack and sometimes Jordan. She'll probably just look different from them both as she gets older, hopefully since she is a girl. For those who are interested, and so I can remember in the future, here's a brief summery of labor. We got to the hospital around 7:00 am to be induced. The nurse gave me the petocin at around 8:15. She knew I wanted an epidural and was nervous to give me the petocin too soon because she thought the labor would be pretty fast once she gave it to me and the anesthesiologist had 2 c-sections to be at in the morning. She wanted to grab him in between the two. He ended up being done with the first faster than she expected so he came and gave me the epidural around 8:30. I still hadn't really felt any contractions at this point, nothing painful at least. The epidural took longer and hurt more than either of my other epidurals. The anesthesiologist had me sit up instead of lay down which I thought was wierd. The epidural started working quickly, except it worked much more on my right side than on my left. I could feel the contractions so the nurse called the guy back and he had me lay on my left side and gave me another dose. It worked a little better that time, but I could still feel the contractions some. They were still painful, but nothing I couldn't handle. I was dialating quickly. Then sometime around 11:30 it was time to start pushing. I was feeling the contraction much more by this time and the nurse said I could have more epidural, but I didn't want it because I wanted to be able to get up as soon as I could. But the epidural was wearing off a lot and although the contractions weren't more painful, I could feel the whole pushing the baby part. It was really painful. Luckily I only had to push 4 or 5 times and through only 2 contractions. Mackenzie didn't cry when she came out and I didn't think she was really out until I saw her. They gave her to me without washing her off. I didn't hold Jack and Jordan like that. So she was a little slimy. But still perfect. She was breathing a little fast and grunting some so they took her to the nursery, which is really a NICU and checked her out there. She had low blood sugar and so they fed her some formula in hopes that that would bring it up. It did. She had to stay in there for a couple hours, until her blood sugar level was high enough during 2 testings I think and until her temperature was high enough. Doug stayed with her the whole time and I came in for the last half hour or so. Before that I was stuck in bed because although the epidural had been wearing off the right side of my body was still a little numb. They had to check her blood sugar level before I fed her for a couple feedings to make sure it was staying up, which it did. Now she is doing great! We're so happy she is finally here. It's fun having a little girl in our family!