Beautiful Baby

My great friend Jenni (and her husband Mason) took some amazing pictures of Mckenna yesterday when they came to visit! She was awake and alert the whole time they were here, so that made for even better pictures!!!

For a little update- we are doing great being home! It feels really nice to just be relaxed in your own house. My sister-in-law, Jana, is absolutely amazing. She has been her so much helping with Mckenna while Jeff and I sleep!!! It is has been great! Mckenna's bilirubin has been high since they first measured it at 24 hours and because of that we have to feed her every 2 hours. That has been rough, but we are supplementing with a bottle, so Jeff has been able to help in order for me to sleep sometime! We are soooo happy to have Mckenna here with us!!!!! We love her so much!

Mckenna Grace Jones

I was going to let Cara write, but that will have to come later. But the title should give it away, we decided on a name: Mckenna Grace Jones.

We had a couple of names we liked and we were just deciding which one fit her little snuggly, squirmy personality.

Mckenna and Cara are both doing great. We should be in the hospital until tomorrow or Friday depending on how Cara is feeling. We are super excited and grateful that everything has gone so smoothly. Thank you all for your support, prayers, messages, and phone calls.

Here are some more great photos.




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To clarify

Baby Jones was born last night at 7:21, not 45 minutes ago. Those pictures are from 8pm last night.

45 minutes old

She is...

8 lbs

20 inches

Beautiful

Half Way There....We hope

Well, nothing too exciting so far, except that Cara had her epidural and is loving life. We're about half through though I think, and ever since the epidural Cara has been sleeping like this:




I took this with my cell, she has been snuggling with her green body pillow. She has slept right through some huge contractions, which before was completely impossible.



I'll let Cara post something if she feels like it, then you probably won't hear back until we have pictures of a little baby!

BABY TIME

No news yet. We've been in the hospital since last night when they started the first medication. We waited in the waiting room for four hours before that happened. We played cards and Cody brought us some dinner from Wendy's.

They just started the pitocin and the contractions are under way. It will be awhile before the epidural, but Cara is anxiously awaiting the relief. She dilated only a little past a one, but the first medication softened the cervix quite a bit, so she should be dilating more already.
Hopefully this is the last pregnancy picture:

The final PREGNANCY update...

So, last Thursday at my doctors appointment the doctor gave me all the info. for the induction. I was really hoping all week that I would just have her (because I was have TONS of contractions), but nothing happened- so I am still being induced. I go in on Monday afternoon to start the first part of the induction. They give me some medicine to start the contractions and dialate me a little and then at 5am on Tuesday morning they are going to start to Pitocin drip. So, hopefully it won't be too long and she will be here by Tuesday late afternoon!

We will definitely keep everyone posted. I told Jeff he will have to do his first post with pictures of her on Tuesday night! And if by some chance I go into labor today or tonight, first of all, that would be AWESOME and second you better check back on our blog more often to get the scoop :-)

Hope everyone is doing well and had a great 4th of July! We had a great week/weekend with all of Jeff's family here, but I will have more posts about that later!!!!