McKenna's Grand Entrance

Thats right, three days late but she is here. Early early Friday morning I was having really bad contractions, they really started Wednesday night Thursday morning but when we went in the sent us home. So Thursday I went about my normal life, shopping, helping my mother in law pack and just being myself. I can't say it was easy since my contractions were close to every seven minutes and hurt like hell! Jon finally talked me into going to the hospital again Friday morning so they could at least give me some sort of pain medication to temporarily spare me of the pain.

When I got to the hospital they checked my cervix and I was dilated at a one. Since the day before at the doctor I was still a zero this was much anticipated news. They kept me on monitors for an hour and checked my cervix again, no more progress, yet again they were sending us home empty handed. . . I asked to use the restroom and they told me to wait until they checked the monitors again. This time the monitors were not showing her heart beat. They could not find it. They called in a second nurse who also could not find her heart beat. One of the nurses then went and got an ultrasound machine and we saw her heart was beating, but very very slow.

The next little while was a blur. We realized her heart rate dropped about 6:20 A.M. and by 6:47 she had been delivered by a c-section. I have never been so frightened in my life. They did a nerve block instead of an epidural because that was all we had time for, I guess epidurals take time to actually kick in. Jon was with me which kept me as close to calm as I could have been.

We found out later that there had been an abruption, which means that the placenta just started removing itself from the uterine wall because although I had been contracting for almost two days at this point nothing else was happening. She was ready to come I guess and for some reason decided she had to scare us to do it. Now that she is six months old we realize she is a bit of a drama queen but worth every minute of it.

She was born 7 lbs 11 oz and was 21 inches long. She was having problems sucking so feeding is difficult right now but we figured hey she is a Latimer she will get the hang of it. Which she did put I never produced enough to feed her, or even an ant for that matter, but she sure took to the bottles great.

Mom and baby are doing great. The doctors were amazing and it is a relief to finally have McKenna in my arms instead of in my belly!

Our story

For those of you who only know one of us,

Jon is a very funny sarcastic guy who loves to make people laugh and is very laid back. He graduated from Smoky Hills High School in 2003. In March 2004 he left for his mission, New Zealand Wellington Mission. He comes from a family of seven, five older brothers and two younger sisters. Right now Jon is in school at ITT Tech for Computer Networking. He will have his associates in August 2009. Jon works at Unisys in North Salt Lake doing Desktop Support. In his free time he plays RPG's and spends time with me and McKenna.

Melissa is very high strung and stresses about EVERYTHING. I graduated from Shelley High School in 2004. Right now I am a stay at home mom and I love it. My daughter and husband means the world to me. It does get lonely sometimes with Jon being gone but he makes up for it when he gets home. Jon and my mom are my best friends, I trust them with everything.

Jon and I met April 2006, shortly after he got home from his mission. He knew right away that this was it, I wish I could say the same but it took me more time. We were engaged June 2006 and got married on November 11, 2006 in the Idaho Falls Latter-Day-Saint Temple. During Thanksgiving Jon found a job in Salt Lake so we moved back here. About three weeks after we got married we found out we were expecting. We were very shocked and didn't think we were prepared but we have grown a lot over the year and in August were blessed with a beautiful baby girl.

That pretty much brings us up to date. Things are great, just busy, but thats the way we like it!