Baby Kacey

I've tried to update this blog several times in the past month to no avail...the little guy seems to know when my attention has drifted from him to something else:) I can't believe how fast the time has flown since Kacey was born--he's growing so fast!

Here's my side of things leaving out as much of the gorey details as possible.

My due date was June 17th and three weeks before that at my dr. app. I found out that I was already dilated 3 centimeters and 50% effaced. I was so excited thinking that I was going to have this little guy before my due date but he has since proven to have gained the stubborn streak that both of his parents have. Finally late on the 18th I stood up to go to bed and thought I had wet my pants--one of the less desirable side effects of being 40+ weeks pregnant. After awhile I realized that my water had broke and called the hospital to see if I should come in or wait it out for awhile at home.

When we got to the hospital I was dilated to a 6 and was contracting about every minute. An hour later after I got the epidural I was dilated to an 8. I thought things were going to go really fast and I would end up being one of those ladies that had really short labors, but unfortunately things really slowed down after that. I ended up contracting until about 4 in the morning before I was finally at a 10. They had me try pushing for awhile but we weren't making much progress. Kacey was face up and his head was bent to the side kind of making it really hard to get him out. We decided that since I had the epidural and was relatively comfortable we would just let him labor down before we started pushing again. I'm really glad we did that because I still pushed for over 2 hours before he was finally born. It was a really tiring and frustrating couple of hours but when the dr. said he was going into distress something inside me just kicked in and I was finally able to deliver him.

Kacey was finally born the next morning at 9:17 weighing 7 lbs. 1 oz. and 21 inches long. Poor little guy had a pretty rough looking head for about a day. When he was born I looked at Eric and he had this scared look on his face--I found out later that he was worried something was wrong with Kacey because his head looked so bad. That's what happens when you come out crooked I suppose. Two days later when they measured him again he had lost an inch and a half in length because all the swelling on his melon had gone down.

It was such an amazing experience to finally see our little baby. He is absolutely perfect and we feel so incredibly blessed to finally have him here. Eric defied all odds and actually made it through the whole labor without passing out. I'm so proud of him--he did so great for a guy that has a really hard time with anything medical. I'm also glad to report that no one was injured the first time Eric got pe'ed on and subsequent times since:) He however doesn't seem to think it is quite as funny as I do. All in all we're doing great so far. Extremely tired but great. Our dogs were a little freaked out when we got him home. Poor Sassy hid under the table a couple of times when Kacey was screaming during diaper changes but she has come around like the other two.

Here's the only before picture I have... Me with the dogs a few days before I delivered. I didn't realize I didn't have any pictrues of myself pregnant until it was too late.

After...

Kacey is such a smiler--it melts my heart every time!

Got to love the feet shots

Proud Daddy!

Kacey David Mackay

So, here's my side of the story...

It was friday night... just spent all day at work and it was getting kind of late, right around 10:30 P.M. and Mindy and I were watching some T.V. and starting to contemplate going to bed. I was laying on the floor using one of the dogs as a pillow, had one snuggled up next to me and the other one not too far away and the sleep was starting to pour over me. I was thinking to myself... "self, the dogs are sleeping, why aren't you?" So then Mindy says that she is just going to go up to bed because she was wanting to get some rest for her Dr. appointement in the morning. As she stands up she says... "I think I just pee'ed my pants!" I said, "Oh... that's nice. Go take care of it." Then she said, "It just keeps on coming!"

At this point my very first thought was... holy crap! can't you even hold it for two minutes! My second thought was... have a little patience, she's 40 weeks and 1 day pregnant! My third thought was... HOLY CRAP!!!! This could mean the baby is coming!!!!

So, we called the hospital. They said that the nurse was 40+ minutes away and that we should just take our time and come in. So when we got to the hospital it was about 11:30 P.M. Luckily for us the Dr. that was on call was the Dr. we were seeing for the pregnancy. Fast forward... to 7:20 A.M. the Dr. says it's time for Mindy to push really hard. The Dr. and the nurses are carrying on conversation like nothing is going on around them and my heart is starting to beat faster. Then my mind starts to go faster than my heart and I am waiting with great anticipation to meet this little guy that has been incubating for the last 40 weeks! And fast forward 2 hours later... the Dr. says one big push... you've got to get him out now! A little panic from me but then he came right out... coughed and sputtered and took right off into his life. What a miracle!

Sunday at 12:30 we were wanting to leave the hospital but we hadn't chose a name yet. Going back and forth with all the names was pretty difficult. I have been telling her for a really long time that I really liked the name K. C. and she said that she was not going to have an abreviated child. So we were going to go with Kaycee... like Kaycee, WY where Chris LeDoux was from (which they dedicated a monument to Chris LeDoux the day our son was born) but Mindy thought it was too "girlie" and she didn't want the boy to get beat up his first day of school. So we compromised on the spelling with Kacey.

It's been a few days shy of a month and it's been such a wonderful experience! He is a great joy to have around. I am so glad that we were blessed to have a little baby!