Mackenzie comes home!

We came home from the hospital on Tuesday afternoon. We had a special outfit just for her picked out but see was too little to fit into it so we had to use one of MM's premie outfits that looked just as cute on her as it did on MM. Mackenzie got to see her home for the first time and meet her kitty's. The first thing Mattie did when we got Mackenzie home was to run out to the car and give her a little flower she picked out of the yard. When we got into the house MM ran to her room and pick-out a couple books and began "reading" to Mackenzie even before we had her out of her car seat. It was so sweet! She even brought out her "baby sister" doll that she sleeps with every night and but it next to Mackenzie in her bouncy seat.

Mackenzie, Mattie and Mimi at the hospital

Kim's mom flew in right away on Friday to help take care of Mattie Marie. She brought MM up up to the hospital on Friday and Mattie and Mackenzie met each other for the first time. It was sooooo sweet. MM has been so excited to meet "Baby Sister". She want to hold her (and touch her repeatedly on the face much to our dismay) right away:







Mimi certainly enjoyed meeting her 3rd granddaughter as well:

Mackenzie in the hospital

Here are some photos of Mackenzie in the hospital. She was born on Friday moring the 23rd at 2:16 AM and we came home on Tueday (the 27th). I think we all had our fill of the hospital and were eager to get home. Thank you to everyone who sent well wishes to us. It was so nice to read through them in between naps and feedings.


The only worries we had while in the hospital was a little jaundace that she came down with. She had to spend a full day getting a tan under the lights and that cleared things up with her:

Mackenzie's Birth

I thought I'd recap for you how we ended up going to the hospital 10 days before our due date and 5 days before our scheduled C-section. Thursday night we decided to go to one last movie together. About 6:00 Kim started to have some contractions. Not a big deal as she's had them before and it's not uncommon to have them this late in the pregnancy. We decided to go to the 6:50PM movie anyway and see what happens. We went to "The Da Vinci Code" which was a little disappointing as a movie compared to the book. During the movie Kim kept having contractions but they still were not regular but they were getting more intense so we knew this was going to be a little different. Things continued when we came home so me made several phone calls to Kim's mom and to our neighbor Anita to put them "on call". We wrapped up our packing and preparing encase we needed to go to the hospital that night. Kim was sending out work e-mails up till about 11:45 or so. We went to bed at 12:00 and Kim woke up at 12:10 with a very intense contraction and felt that her water may have broke. Kim called her doctor and she told us to come on in to the hospital. We had our neighbor Anita come over to spend the night with Mattie Marie. She snapped this last photo of us before we let to the hospital at 12:30 AM:


We made it to the hospital around 12:45 and they started doing the testing and setting up monitors. Kim will be better at describing her discomfort during this time but I can say it was worse for her this time than with Mattie Marie. You can tell she's not to happy here:

















She was preped and taken into the delivery/operating room at 1:55. She had her spinal shot that made her much happier:

Things went so fast at this point that I'm not sure what happened. By time the doctors started their actual work it was no more than 5 minutes and out came little Mackenzie! Totally blue and screaming her head out before she emerged!:

She was beautiful! We were both so happy and in shock that we were parents again! I thought she sounded and looked a lot like Mattie Marie right away. Mackenzie was a little bigger than MM was and she had more hair and it was slightly darker I would say. They cleaned her up and sewed (well, stapled actually) Kim back up and we got to spend an hour or so in the recovery room before we went up to our actual room. Here is our first photo together in the recovery room:

I'll recap the rest of our hospital stay in my next post. Stay tuned!

Rob

Another Carmody is born

Boy I'm really cranking on this blog. Anyway, let see if I can attach some photos of the new baby:

Mackenzie Diann Carmody
Born at Rose Medical Center, Denver CO
Born at 2:19AM on June 23, 2006
6 lb 4oz