Maci Grace Burton May 12, 2010

So as may of you know Kent and I welcomed another Beautiful baby girl into our family in May of 2010. Maci Grace Burton was born on May 12, 2010 weighing in at 5lb 12oz 21 1/2 in long. She had beautiful thick dark hair. For those of you who don't know the story of her birth here it is. Maci was due in the June 20th my pregnancy was going well but my Doctor was keeping a close eye on me because Lexi was 5 week early. So around the 20th of March I was about 25 weeks I was put on bed rest because I was having contractions and going into preterm labor and I was dilated to a 2 1/2 I was on bed rest for 7 weeks and going to Dr Appts 1-2 times a week. During those 7 weeks I continued to contract and dilate the medication the Dr gave me wasn't working. On May 11 I went to my Dr Apt and I was having contractions that day ( I cant really feel my contractions so I don't always know when I am having one my belly just gets really tight) but i had contractions every day but these ones just felt different, so I told the Dr that something about today's contractions just felt different. So he checked me and i was dialated to a 5 1/2, 1/2 a cm more that 3 day earlier so he gave me some meds to help stop the contractions and put me on a monitor and watched the contractions. A hour later he came in and said that the med weren't working and that Kent needed to take me right to IMC hospital to be put on in hospital bed rest. My Dr is at the Riverton Hospital but they cant deliver babies that are earlier than 35 weeks and i was only 32 so he had to send me there. Kent drove me to IMC and got me all checked into Labor and Delivery it was about 1:00 pm, they gave me some more meds but through a IV but I was still having contractions and they weren't slowing down so they upped the dose at about 12:30 am they got the contractions to calm down and they sent me up to the maternity ward to be on bed rest for a week. When I woke up that morning the High Risk Dr they had assigned me to came in and checked me and said that I hadn't progressed at all over night and that he thought that I could go home on Friday. But I just didn't feel good they brought me my breakfast and I just felt sick to my stomach and couldnt eat and I thought I was having contractions, so I called the nurse in and told her I thought that I was contracting and so they brought a monitor up and watched me, but they couldn't see anything. A hour later the resident came up to see me and I told her I didn't fill well and that I was having contractions, she told me she had been watching me and that I wasn't having contractions but that she would check me just in case. The next thing I knew my bed was being unplugged from the wall and I was being wheeled down to labor and delivery, when we got down there the resident told me that I was dilated to a 7 1/2 and that I needed to call Kent and tell him to get here. When Kent arrived they broke my water called the Dr and wheeled me into the OR so they could pass Maci right into the NICU. Maci was delivered so fast that the Dr didn't make it they didn't have time to take the bottom of the bed off , which was a good thing because they didn't even have time to catch Maci and she shot out like a rocket and landed on the end of the bed. Exciting right. Maci in the NICU

Her Breathing tube and Feeding tube, and Rock Star

Sun Glasses!!

Yeah!! She got switched to smaller tubes.

Her Cute little foot with her monitor

My Cute Little BABY GIRL!

Sun Bathing

I love this Picture

All snuggled up.

They would swaddle her up in this thing and she would

always kick her one leg out like this.

Mommy and Maci skin to skin time.

My favorite time of the day.

Her Cute hat the Nurses gave her and i put that cute flower on.

Daddy feeding Maci.

All stretched out!

All her preemie cloths were way to big.

After 2 1/2 long weeks Maci got to come home.

Daddy and his Girls resting in the couch Maci's first day home.

I'm Back

I know I know it has been forever, but we haven't had the Internet for a very long time and it was just to hard to go out to my parents house every time I wanted to post something. Good news we now have the Internet so I can start posting again. The last time that I posted anything was just after we brought Maci home from the hospital and she will be Two in May. WOW A lot has happened in between then and now. So I guess i will just sum that last year and a half up in few quick posts.

I know it's been forever so here is a up date!

I know i know it has been forever. Kent and I got rid of the internet because we both have it on our phones so we figured that because we never used it we would get rid of it. ( i forgot that i needed to update my blog) so I can only update it when I am at my parents house. So where did i leave off in my last post? Oh Ya we had just found out that we were having a Girl. WOW it really has bee a long time. So sence then I got put on bedrest in the first of May because of premature labor, I was dialated to a five and was only 28 weeks along. After being on bedrest for five weeks I delivered a beautiful little girl Maci Grace Burton at 33 weeks ( two months early). Because she came so early we had a two and a half week NICU stay at IMC hospital in Murry. We have really enjoyed having Maci as part of our family, Lexi really loves being a BIG sister, she is always hugging and kissing her.

We blessed Maci on the 4th of July it was so wonderful to have all of our friends and family in town to celebrate our new daughter with us.

Maci started to show signs of a cold about a week ago and her eyes started to get really gooped up so on Thursday night Kent and I decided to take her into the kids care clinic, which was a big waist of time and money because they just set us up to Primary Children's where they ran blood tests and gave Maci a spinal tap and decided that she had celuitsous in her eye. So we had a 24 hour stay at primary's. This girl has spent more time in the hospital her first two months than I have in my almost 25 years.

So there is a little update on us I will try to be better and next time I will put up some pictures.

It's a . . . . . . . .

It's a . . . . . .

GIRL

(Ultra Sound pictures to come soon)

Maci Grace Burton

Is due June 20 2010

Christmas 2009

This Christmas season has been so fun for us,

Lexi has been so excited about all the lights, the

tree, all the decorations, the Holiday music, and

getting to spend so much time with family.

We spent Christmas Eve with my family as

usual. (Sorry no pictures I forgot my camera)

We had a wonderful Christmas dinner that was

Lexi Christmas Morning

so yummy, My mom always makes the best Christmas Dinner. Then all the kids did a live

nativity and it was so fun to watch the little ones try and do there parts and last long enough for

Grandpa to finish reading the story.

(Lexi and her daddy eating her candy)

Then it was time to open our Christmas PJ's,
usually at this point we all go to bed. But this

year we didn't seep at my parents which was so

weird for me. But it was really nice to do

Christmas morning with just my little family.

The tradition in my family is that you get up at

5:00am and open presents, and then my dad

makes a great breakfast and we just spend the rest of the day being lazy. But the tradition in

Kent's family is totally opposite they didn't get up until eight and then they had to wait for there

dad to get up and get ready for the day.

So this year Kent put his foot down and said that were doing it his way, to tell the truth I was

kind of excited to get to sleep in. Little did I know the Hartley child in me didn't think that was a

good idea. (or maybe it was just the baby) So

Kent and I put Lexi to bed and finished getting

things ready for Christmas morning and went to

bed expecting a good night sleep. But I was too

excited to see Lexi's face the next morning, I

woke up every hour and a half ready to get up I

felt like a little kid again staying up all night on

Christmas Eve just waiting for my mom and dad to let us out to see what Santa brought, the

only difference was I was the mom begging the dad to let me go wake up the kids to go see what

Santa brought. Even though I already knew.

So finally after a LONG restless night Lexi came walking into our bedroom at 7:30 and I got

even more excited but of course we had to make it a little more difficult than that for her so I had

to pretend to be asleep and let her try to get us up, ya right that lasted all 2 min and I was up

and ready to go. It was so fun to watch my Beautiful little girl's eyes get big when she saw what

Santa brought and the joy she had playing baby's with her daddy. And seeing my wonderful

Husband playing with his little girl and the joy he got from the SMILE on her face. I think this

was the best Christmas ever and I can't wait until next year to do it all over again.