I never would have guessed that Mackenzie would be arriving 3 days after my last blog post. We had planned everything perfectly! My doctor recommended a planned c-section one week prior to my due date. However, that was the weekend of the MLK holiday and our friends who had generously volunteered to watch Campbell for a night were going to be in CA. So I suggested we schedule the c-section for January 17th. It was perfect. Campbell would spend the night at our friends house on Jan 16th; Brad and I would have our first night to ourselves since Campbell's arrival, and then we would get up super early on the 17th and check-in to the hospital for Mackenzie's arrival.
Ms. Mack had other plans. Friday night, Jan 13th, I worked till after 10 PM to get everything done before going out on maternity leave. I finally got into bed around midnight and realized I was having contractions. I convinced myself they were braxton-hicks (the "fake" warm-up contractions). I got out of bed to sit on the couch and drink gallons of water to try to stop it. Finally at about 3 AM I woke Brad up to give him an update - I was having contractions and all the water in the world was not stopping it. We paged my doctor. He agreed I needed to go to the hospital. Great... what was our plan now. Who was going to watch Campbell at 3 AM?!?! I hopped in the shower to shave my legs (because who knew when I would get another chance to do that); I threw some clothes in a bag (because I was totally not ready yet and hadn't carefully packed a hospital bag like I did with Campbell); and I jumped in the car to drive MYSELF to the hospital. Brad stayed home with Campbell!
I waddled my way to L&D around 4 AM and got checked into the hospital - yep I was having contractions about every 5-10 minutes. We had a few options, take meds to try to stop the contractions and go with planned section on the 17th or move forward with delivery that morning. As a precaution I was given the meds any way, but Brad said let's go for it. Mackenzie would be arriving today. Next step, find someone to watch Campbell. As grandparents scrambled to change their flights (everyone had planned for the 17th!), a fellow resident was willing to come to our house at 8 AM and spend the day with Campbell. I was scheduled for a 9:00 AM section which luckily got pushed back to 9:30 AM. Brad made it to the hospital at 9, and Mackenzie was born at 9:44 AM - exactly one week before my due date, as my doctor had originally suggested! I guess she listened better than me. Welcome to the world Mackenzie!!!
Love all that curly brown hair!
Time to go home!
What's so funny Mackenzie?!
