Play-by-Play

So if you don't know by now our second little girl, Macy Therese, has arrived. Here is the play-by-play without the gruesome details.

Lead Up - Thursday evening Maggie had a fever and wasn't feeling real good. That continued all Friday with some cramping and general not good feelings. So when she woke up Saturday with a fever of 101.4 we decided to call the doctor. The doctor thought is was probably just the flu and nothing they would do but he decided to send us to the hospital just to check.
10:45am - We arrived at the hospital and they started some tests. The doctor showed up and did some tests also that made him think it may not be the flu. They watched the stats for awhile and had a second doctor consult. Maggie was having regular 7min apart contractions but not much pain. The second doctors opinion basically came down to, Not sure if there is something wrong or not but your baby is 37+ weeks so lets just be safe and induce. So we were off.
4:15pm - They moved us from the triage room to a delivery room.
4:30pm - Dad left the delivery room to go home and get supplies. We were completely unprepared. On the drive to the hospital I was picking out where we were going to lunch. Boy was I wrong.
5:00pm - They started the Pitocin (inducing drug). Zero centimeters dialated.
8:30pm - Maggie got the epidural. One centimeter dialated, some progress but not much.
10:30pm - Maggie felt something that in retrospect may have been her water breaking but nobody knew for sure at the time.
12:30am - They checked Maggie and graciously gave her 1.5cm dialated. At this point we are thinking it is going to take a month to fully dialate. Dad laid down and started to take short naps. Maggie was closing her eyes and relaxing. Gotta love the epidural.
2:30am - Starting to feel some pain so they gave Maggie an epidural boost. They also checked again and she was a solid 2cm. You have to be kidding me, we're 12hrs+ in and have only made it 2cm.
4:30am - Maggie presses the nurse call button. She is feeling some pressure that she wasn't feeling before. Dad wakes up to some commotion.
4:35am - The nurse comes in to check and presses the call button, "Can you get me the midwife, FAST!"
4:40am - The midwife comes in, takes a peak and says, "That baby is ready to come. Start pushing!" Maggie and I are in disbelief and think this can't be right. They always tell you not to push, wait for everything to be ready. Just 2 hours ago Maggie was 2cm. What's going on???
4:49am - After less then 10 minutes of pushing (painful but short time) out came precious little Macy Therese.

So that will be Macy's delivery story. It happened so fast at the end that it was even suprising to the nurses. The doctor showed up about 15 minutes later very suprised at what had happened. And in the end, all the blood test confirmed that there wasn't anything wrong, just the flu. Macy could have waited another couple weeks if she wanted, but we are glad to have her a little early.