She's Here!!

Grandma and Grandpa Meacham

What am I going to do with kaders? People used to ask me how I held Kade pregnant because he was so heavy and I never thought he was that bad but he feels so big to me now. Maryann cut his hair I will have to post a picture of it-he looks older. He will have to grow up fast. He is talking a lot. my favorites are, grandpa, thank you, uh oh, baba, mommy, daddy, no no no, doggy, and now the cutest is baby

Ok our crazy trey is so funny about Macie. He says oh she's so cute! I just want to keep her forever! Of course they have all been fighting over who gets to hold her next.

Cam sent me two flower arrangements in the hospital and maryann brought the pretty pink flowers and balloons.

Kade just wants to poke her in the eye. He really doesn't want much to do with her and hasn't gotten too jealous but I have had someone here all the time that can help him when he needs something and she has been sleeping soo much that I have been able to get him what he wants. It will be interesting when we are home alone and they both need me.

I guess we wouldn't really have fit on a hospital bed and I can't lie-it was kind of nice not to worry about Kade and Trey in the hospital.

No this is not me before going into the hospital! i always look soo pregnant still after. how in the world did she fit! Now I know why I couldn't breath at night. She wasn't small either! I am still bigger than maryann who delivers her little girl in 7 weeks.

A very excited older sister

Seriously how cute is this! He is way more creative than I am

Macie's take home outfit-the leg warmers are so flipping cute! i have been having too much fun with all the cute girl stuff!

the hopital hats are cuter-some lady donates them

Our second visitor-We are excited for maryann to have her little girl-they will be good friends

It was hard to hold the tears back-I still have a hard time thinking she is a girl-i am still in boy mode. We are so excited to have another little girl

Cam's favorite part of the delivery day-he gets to go get something to eat, walk down to the cafeteria and get some treats and of couse a drink.

i say this every time we have another child-It is a really good thing Cam doesn't have to get up at night-although I wish I could nap like this

who knew the hospital had wireless internet-he was set!

so I don't like to wear shoes outside. Cam was so embarrised the doctor saw my feet so dirty.

We just finished watching the second session of conference. I kept thinking our little Macie was just with our Heavenly Father. we are grateful to have her in our home and experience conference with us. The amazing blessing of children and the sweet spirit about them never gets less special with each child-it just gets more and more amazing as we have other children to share such an experience with. I was scheduled to be induced on thursday but was informed of a new policy IHC was implementing on thursday. Starting thursday, children under 15 were not allowed in the hospital, and you were only allowed two total visitors. Because of this I decided to let my dr. strip my membranes monday (nothing has ever happened in the past when I have had this done-I hate it and it hurts!!) well nothing happened and I called the hospital and my dr again to see if they could induce me earlier to avoid this new rule so my kids could come and see their new baby sister. My dr stripped my membranes again on tues. and nothing. i did all I could so thursday it would be. i was very excited when I got a phone call at 5:30am saying to come in an hr. Cam took me got me checked in and went back home to get the kids off to school. We had woken up Bryson and left him in charge. My dr.was there and said he would check me and break my water. When he checked me I was only a 2 1/2. so he wanted to wait until I dialated a little more Longer story short a little more ended up being a lot more. he broke my water at about 9ish and then we waited and waited and waited. I had very little pain. I got my epidural probably around 11 or 12 and they turned my pitocin up so my contractions could get harder. At 3:10 the dr came to check me and i was almost an 8 and he had me push once to see if we could hurry it along. I was very excited after I pushed he said-we are having a baby. Such a crazy feeling after waiting for so long to think in minutes we would have another member of our family. I had geared myself up a little to push harder this time because Kade took a little longer than all the others I had delivered. so after my first push I had to slow down a little and she just slid right out at 3:28It was really such an easy delivery. I felt great after! Maryann and Cam were there with me. That morning the dr. thought I could go home that night if I had delivered like we all thought. You hear with each kid they come faster but not our little Macie. I got to my recovery room around 6pm. I really don't like spending the night in the hospital-I got no sleep between all of the noise and the nurses coming and going. macie slept all night. the nurses bugged me to wake her to feed her. I got up got dressed and was ready to get home fri morning. the kids got home from school at 12:30 and were very anxious to meet their new sister. Cam and I made it home at 12:30 and beat the kids so we were home when the were dropped off-they didn't even stop to hug or see me as I was getting out of the car they ran right in to see her. Cam made the cutest sign out front welcoming us home. I feel really good! Macie slept all night last night-so nice because I was tired. It was so nice to be in our own comfortable bed. She has only eaten about every 5 hrs. so I am a little nervous for my milk to come in-hopefully she will eat a little more or else I may have to pump. It was really a wierd dejavue feeling when she came out. We had just done all of this a yr ago and she came out looking like kade. I was even in the exact same room as I was with Kade. Kade was really really good in the hospital so I am not getting my hopes up yet. We had lots of visitors fri. to see macie-thank you everyone for the food, gifts and visits. We are so happy to have her home!