Alright so I officially have a facebook account which is why I haven't been keeping up with this website. I was running out of the space I'm allowed to use which is why I joined facebook. If you have facebook add me as a friend so that you can see the most recent pictures I have of Mackenzie. I haven't figured out if there is a way to do a blog on there yet. I find the "wall" fairly annoying. I'll take a look at this website and see if there is a way I can keep updating it without running out of space!

Mackenzie is almost 4 months old now. She did well at her last doctor appointment. Her doctor says that she could stand to gain some more weight but it's nothing to be worried about, she's just slim! She's a good little eater though haha She'll have another doctor appointment in a couple months as well as some more vaccinations.

Some things about Mackenzie right now:

• she looks best in the color pink but it has to be the right shade, not too light.
• she has Mikes eye lashes which means that they're really long and gorgeous. Her eyes are still beautifull blue.
• she has a little more hair coming in on top but it's still mostly around the sides. It appears to be light in color.
• she's grabbing at toys a lot. Pulling at them. She shakes a rattle, that kind of thing. Has a favorite key ring.
• She tries to put absolutely EVERYTHING in her mouth. Her whole hand, MIKES whole hand, a book. LOL It's really cute.
• She's doing well with holding her head up for longer periods of time.
• Loves bath time, likes walk time, she's sleeping for longer periods. Some nights she actually does 8 hours and other nights a lot less but we're getting there!
• She loves to watch tv haha Anything that's a light source she'll track, like if you move a cell phone screen around in front of her face.

Well that's all that I can think of for right now. I've got a cold which i'm trying to get over asap so I'd better get some sleep!

Well our daughter Mackenzie decided to show up on March 26th.  I went into labor around 1 am (without going to sleep on the 25th) and was definitely feeling the contractions by 2 am.  I waited things out because I wasn't sure what I was experiencing but at 4 am I woke Mike up and said that I needed to go to the hospital to find out if I was in labor.  We went to the hospital and got checked in and then I was put on the monitor for about an hour.  When the nurse checked me she told me that I was not dilated at all and that babies head had not dropped down/engaged.  She said that It would be a long labor labor yet and that I should go home and come back when the contractions were so intense that I couldn't talk through them.

Mike and I went home and started timing the contractions and realized that they were coming 2.5 min apart on average for about 45 seconds each.  This sort of freaked me out because I was expecting a much slower start to labor, especially with the baby not having dropped into the proper position. Mike called the hospital and they told me to try having a bath to see if it stopped or slowed down the contractions.  Nothing changed so Mike and I were on our way back to the hospital at 5 am.  I was definitely in a lot of pain by this point.

At the hospital I was checked in and put back on the monitor for a while. Then the on call doctor came in because we told the nurse that I have a bicornuate uterus so they wanted to see how the baby was positioned by doing an ultrasound.  The doctor did the ultrasound and then told us that he recommended a c-section. The nurse seemed surprised by this so we asked the doctor what the odds were that we could deliver naturally.  He said "well miracles do happen." LOL At that point Mike and I realized that things were turning out a little differently than we had planned. We asked for a couple minutes to talk about it but decided fairly quickly that due to circumstances it was the best decision.

Because my doctor had gone into surgery I then had to tough out the contractions for another couple hours before the nurse could find out what kind of pain relief the doctor wanted me to be given. (Yeah contractions that close together...not very comfortable!) I ended up with a shot of morphine in each arm. The needles really hurt but the relief was nice.  This was the point in the day when I started feeling really drugged and tired. A feeling which stayed with me into the next day.

Around two the nurses started getting me ready for surgery. I wasn't too worried about the surgery partly because I've had surgery before and partly because things were happening so fast that I didn't really have time to process anythying. The anesthesiologist (not going to bother looking the spelling up for that word) was really nice and was joking around  alot with the nurses. I was freaked out about getting a spinal because I don't like needles but the spinal was actually my least painful needle of the day! Things moved really fast once that was done. They only give things about ten minutes to work because the drugs work that fast and then the surgery is started. They actually started the surgery before Mike got into the room because they had to make sure the spinal would do it's job. Mike came in and started chatting with the anesthesiologist because it turned out that he had delivered Mike! haha So Mike was busy doing that instead of talking to me but it all worked out. Within ten minutes the doctor had our baby out. The first time I heard her cry I started to bawl. Not a little bit. I mean full out bawling so hard that I couldn't stop shaking and they were trying to do surgery on me lol So Mackenzie Jane was born at 2:45 on March 26th of 2010!