Madelynn's Arrival

Madelynn made her debut Saturday May 16th at 2:59 pm 10 weeks early. She weighed 3 lbs 4 oz. She was 16 and 1/4 inches long.

Story leading up to her arrival...

Wednesday I took my last two finals early so I could have a four day break before beginning 6 weeks of summer school. Late Wednesday afternoon I noticed Madelynn was not moving around like she usually does. I thought maybe she was just tired from finals with me. Thursday morning I was beginning to get worried but Jason had taked the day off to spend time with me before summer classes started. We had lunch at Chili's and spent the rest of the day at the zoo before we went to Dr. Shanbour's office for the checkup.

Dr. Shanbour told us to to go home and eat dinner and if she hasn't moved 10 times in 2 hours to go back to the hospital to get monitored. After dinner we took a nap, well Jason slept, I couldn't because I was waiting on Madelynn to move. I woke Jason up at 9 to head to the hospital. We were expecting to be back home in a couple of hours. We half jokingly talked about how this could be our trip to the hospital.

We had to stay Thursday night expecting to go home Friday morning. Friday night we expected to home Saturday morning so I could go register for the baby showers. Saturday they did a contraction stress test to see if her heart could handle contractions. She failed the test. The nurse told us I would go in for the c-section in about an hour. Jason was working that day so that would give him plenty of time to get there and ready...so we thought...3 minutes later the nurse came in and said we were going in 15 minutes! Jason walked in, put on his surgery clothes and away we went.