Baby Mackenzy Has Arrived!

Baby Mackenzy Star Cheek has arrived! She was born 9/19/09, weighs 6lbs 11oz, and is 20.5 inches long!

I had a suspicion that my water had broken on Friday night and when I called the midwife on call she advised me that I could come in for testing to see if that was true. I decided to weight it out a little bit because she said that if my water had broken I would probably go in to labor within 24 hours and the hospital copay is kind of steep! We wanted to make sure I was going to be admitted before we made any quick decisions.

Around 2:30am on Saturday morning, I woke up and was having some mild pain with my contractions, which was a new feeling. I decided to start timing them and over the course of 2 hours they went from about 13 min apart to 6 minutes apart! So I decided to wake my sleeping husband and we headed over to the hospital. After I was admitted, it was confirmed that I was 4-5cm dilated and that my water had indeed broken the previous day. I was in my hospital room around 7:30 am requesting an epidural that almost came to late! Around 10:15 I had an urge to push and after checking me they realized that I was 10cm and told me that I could push. I pushed for about 20 minutes and Mackenzy popped out around 10:45 am! My labor and delivery has been the talk of the hospital all weekend and I feel blessed to have such a beautiful little girl!

I'll post pictures as soon as I get a free moment!