We are so excited! Maizy Grace Good was born early on Thursday, May 31st at 1:53 a.m., weighing 6 pounds, 13 ounces and a length of 19.5 inches. After starting contractions about 10pm on tuesday night, a generous 28 hours was spent trying to coax her out. We spent almost all of the night tuesday into wednesday awake and counting contractions. Even at the point of delivery my contractions had no rhythmic pattern to them, so they were hard to predict/count and determine what we should be doing. We packed about 2am, and i took the worlds longest shower (who knows when i can take another super long soak like that again?!), painted my toenails and did my hair, we just sort of waited. About 10 am we walked around the garden, and then played a game of cribbage on the patio, and of course, matt won. But, considering i had been laboring for about 13 hours at that point in time, i only lost by 10 points! About 11:40 a.m. my contractions started coming every four minutes and lasting for 1 minute each, and they were super painful and intense. So we called my doctors office and they told us "good luck!" and we headed to St. Joe's.
I was sent to a waiting room/pergatory before finally being admitted at 3:30-i was in my own room and they had me hooked up to monitors to read my contractions, and finally gave me something for the pain. My contractions still weren't patterened and my cervix was still only at 2 centimeters!! Oy. Finally they felt that i wasn't having false labor (no kidding!) and admitted me. From that point on, i had an epideral and tried to sleep. I became pretty sick while i was laboring-like the flu-shakes, chills and a 101 fever. The anesthesilogist gave me another dose of my epideral to ease my muscle pain, and i was given antibiotics for my fever. Now 10pm, 24 hours of laboring i only at 3 centimeters. Gee, i wonder where she gets her stubborn nature from? So they gave me patosin and broke my water. About midnight i started to push, and almost 2 hours later, Maizy was born. Totally a long haul, could've been worse as far as i'm concerned, but she was so worth it!
When i was about 24 weeks we had the opportunity to have a 4D ultrasound down, and she looks just like it! In her 4D pix, she has her hands up to her face in many of them. True to form, she always has her hands to her face. Her favorite thing is to give us "the stink eye". She opens up one eye, checks you out, and then determines if you are worthy enough for her to open up both of her eyes to check you out, or if she should just close them all together. Feeding her has been a bit of a challenge, okay, understatment, but she's catching on. She wants to eat now, no warning signs and it needs to happen as soon as she wants, and does not like that she has to work at it too. Patience-definately something i'm working on and so is she. Impatience-the gene i passed her! Now i know what people mean when they say "just wait until your kids are like you"! Payback!
The benefit of laboring so long and delivering early thursday morning allowed us to stay longer in the hospital, so we just came home this afternoon. I love my house and can't wait for my own bed!!
We love you all, and are so honored we can share our new blessing, Maizy, with you. Enjoy the pix!
Leah, Matt and Maizy
