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!