Delivery

What an amazing day Monday was. I had never wanted the experience of being in the delivery room with any of my daughters, yet there I was. Before I say anymore, I want you to notice what McKinzie's goal was for delivery on the photo. She reached her goal!!
We were in the hospital at 5:45AM, to be induced. Once she was admitted the baby had to be monitored for 30 minutes before an IV was started. They were about to start pitocin when I mentioned that McKinzie wanted to have her water broke and do some walking first. The nurse wasn't sure. McKinzie had talked to her Dr about it but nothing was in the order. So we waited until the Dr arrived at 8, we could of slept in. Once the Dr broke her water we couldn't start walking until the baby dropped more, so the cord couldn't get pinched. Finally, we were off walking the halls until 10, when she was checked and the baby monitored. Since the contractions were regular and she was making progress, she didn't need to have pitocin, yea!! (I haven't heard good things about pitocin.)

McKinzie ended up having stadol, which really helped her relax between contractions. There was one time that McKinzie strongly considered having the epidural. She decided to get checked to see what kind of progress she made. She found out that she was at an 8!! One more dose of stadol would help her make it through.

As she started pushing the Dr kept telling her stop pushing, or a small push. The cord was wrapped around Adam's neck. The Dr wasn't able to get it back over so the Dr clamped and cut the cord before he was even delivered. McKinzie only ended up pushing for about 30 minutes, not too bad. McKinzie did great. Because the pain was so hard at times she of course wanted to give up, but Brian was able to pull her back together and focus. Afterwards, McKinze even said to me that Dad is really good. He is a great coach! Now he has experience of 6 births. McKinzie said that he could be a doula! If only he could handle the thought of an episiotomy. (That always makes him light headed.)

On Tuesday, McKinzie's Dr told her that she would probably be able to go home around noon Wednesday. Adam was released to go home at 7AM. McKinzie didn't get released until 5:30PM! Such a long afternoon waiting for her Dr :0( , she ended up being in surgery all afternoon.

We finally got home and we missed Poppi, he had to go to Austin. We'll have to make sure he's going to be around the next time he wears this.

He's only two days old and he gets to eat before Mom. Life sure has changed around here.