In week 37, Kristie's belly was pretty big...along with her swollen feet and ankles. In fact, the week prior, her doctor thought she could be developing Preeclampsia which would have resulted in Kristie being induced on Wednesday, November 24th. Her follow-up appointment that Monday showed no signs of Preeclampsia, so we had the green light to continue on and let nature take its course. We were both hoping Kristie would be a little early, but Dr. Simmons shurgged that off and said "First time babies are almost never early."
On Thanksgiving, we always go over to my parents house in Painesville where we enjoy a great Thanksgiving meal with about 20+ of our relatives. They all marveled at the size of Kristie's belly and a few of my cousins got to feel the baby kick. We left that night around 8:00 p.m. and got home a little after 9:00 p.m. I gave Kristie a foot rub to help work some of the fluid out to get rid of the swelling and we went to bed around 11:30 p.m. that night.
At about 2:15 a.m. that night, Kristie got up to go to the bathroom and that's when it happened. Her water broke. She woke me up and we called the doctor who told us to come in to the hospital. We arrived at the hospital around 3:45 a.m. and while Kristie was sitting down at the Emergency Room front desk, her water continued to come out...making it look like she peed her sweatpants. The security guard who was sitting in that chair before Kristie wasn't too interested in returning to his chair after that. :)
We got into the maternity ward pretty soon after that and they hooked Kristie up to a bunch of monitors. The nurse asked Kristie "Are you feeling that?" to which Kristie responded "Feeling what?" "You are having a contraction right now," the nurse said "And as the mother of four children, I am very jealous." So it appeared Kristie had a super human tolerance to pain! This was great. For all I knew the baby could slide out any minute and it would all be over with! Well...not so fast I guess. By about 8:00 a.m., things changed...
She seemed to get hung up on 6cm dialated for a while, so the nurse got Kristie out of bed and let her go through a few contractions standing up leaning over the hospital bed. That seemed to work great as she jumped to 9cm within about 30 minutes. At this point, I could see Kristie was in some serious pain as she hadn't received any medication yet. I asked Kristie if she wanted anything and she said she would like something...maybe an epidural. I asked the doctor for something for her, but he explained it was too late that point and she would have to continue without any drugs.
After two hours of pushing during each contraction, Macy finally arrived at 12:07 p.m. on Friday, November 26th. She was 7 lbs 11oz and was 20.5 inches long.
How did we come up with Macy Doll you ask? Well, behind every name there is a story and here is how we came up with that one. For months, we really couldn't agree on a name. I liked Lilly and Kristie liked Reece. One night, I was browsing through baby names on a Baby Name app on my Droid and the name Macy came up. I thought to myself that it was pretty unique and cute for a girl and I chatted Kristie one day at work and after thinking about it for a while, Kristie said she liked it. So, we put it on our short list. Kristie's Mom's maiden name was Doll, so we incorporated that as her middle name. So there you have it, Macy Doll Lillibridge.
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