Makenzie Renee Kelling

Just hanging out

Shane and Mom checking out the contractions that I wasn't feeling...thank you epidural!!

This is Makenzie right after she was born....the tears were flowing....

7lbs 15 oz

Our perfect addition....

Nana, Grandma and Makenzie

Makenzie, Nana and Grandma

Baker just arriving to visit his new sister

Very proud of his "Big Brother" status

Baker's gift from Baby Green - "A firetruck with a ladder, makes noise and a man"!

Hand holding

In my personal opinion....the BEST Dr. in the world - Dr. Tu!!! Thank you for everything and getting Makenzie out safely

The happy foursome

Proud Mama

Grandpa and Makenzie

Papa and Makenzie - Baker in the background

Mom, Makenzie and Jen

Pink Donuts

Our perfect angel arrived 9-23-08 (thank you babe for doing such a great job posting the status on the previous post). As with Baker, we couldn't have an easy birth process. Baby Green was not ready to enter the world, even after I was 100% ready and contractions were right on top of each other. Baby Green wasn't handling the contractions well and the heartbeat was dropping down in the 50's. Dr. Tu was very concerned and said "Erika on the next contraction we are pushing." I thought wow, I am not really ready to push, but your the professional (I just didn't have that need to push). After about 3 pushes, the heartbeat was dropping again. Dr. Tu said, "we need to get this baby out as quickly as possible. I want you to push as hard and fast as you can." Of course I was ready, willing and able. I pushed hard and didn't take much of a break between 10 second counts. After the first deep push, Dr. Tu said "Erika, I need you to push HARD because I want this baby out on the next push." I thought I was going to bust blood vessels in my face because I was pushing so hard. Well, that didn't happen. After 6 pushes and 17 minutes, Baby Green entered the world. After about 5 seconds we heard the cry. Shane was trying to determine the sex, as the legs were crossed and the cord was in the way. He thought Baby Green was a boy until Dr. Tu held up Baby Green and said "surprise, it's a girl!" Instantly I was crying, Shane was crying, the Grandma's ran out of the room with their cell phones in hand to call the 50 people that were waiting to hear the news and the nurses were handing me our beautiful baby girl!

Childbirth in itself is very difficult on the mother, I can't imagine how it is for the baby. With the hard, fast pushing that I had to do, Makenzie did get some pretty deep scrapes on her head from my pelvic bone and her face was a bit swollen (what do you expect when you are coming thru the birth canal)? But, she is still our perfect, beautiful girl! We are so blessed to have such beautiful children!

You might wonder what the pink donuts are for? Well, when Baker was born Shane tried to find blue donuts to take to his work crews (you can't really have cigars on the construction sites). He didn't have any luck last time, so this time he decided to call ahead to the bakery after Makenzie was born. He showed up this morning to 24 pink donuts that he delivered to a couple of his job sites as well as the bank. How perfect is that???