Blogging Faster Than We Birth
Tuesday, September 9th 2008 will forever be the day the greatest adventure for Erin and I started. It began at 10:15am, for what was 38 week appointment. Dr. Tinker, OB/GYN extraordinaire, came and told us that Erin wasn’t progressing as far as we wanted her so we might have to wait until Erin was possibly 41 weeks pregnant before McKinna came into the world. We were quite disappointed, but for good reason. We wanted to have McKinna home with us SOOO bad. However, we knew that God would bring her to us when she was ready and not a moment sooner.
Afterward we had lunch at Memphis Pizza Cafe’, our post appointment ritual, and discussed the rest of the week’s activities. It was a LOOOONG ride back to work for both Erin and I.
To put it in perspective, we can barely wait to give each other presents on Christmas, by the 21st of December so you can imagine our short comings on having to wait for McKinna. However, we both finished the work day and headed home. It was business as usual back at casa de Wiles. Erin went to bed a little earlier that night in hopes of making up for the lack of sleep from the night before, but I stayed downstairs to talk with my brother and finish up some stuff for McKinna’s site. Around 9pm I decided to go to bed and talk with Erin for a bit. I could look at her and see the exhaustion of everything in her eyes.
I closed my eyes and said the nightly Hail Mary and prayed for the safety and well being of Erin and McKinna and put the coming of the little angel in God’s hands. Whatever He believed was the right would happen. Not 5 seconds after I said, “Amen”, Erin leaped from the bed and ran the bathroom.
I heard her gasp and say, “Dee, you will never believe this. I think my water just broke”. After confirming that her water did indeed break, it wasn’t that difficult to confirm, we packed up what little ammenities that we would need at the hospital, hopped in the car and we we off.
Emily, Erin’s parents and my mom met us there. The initial prognosis from the nurse was that it was going to be LONG night. It didn’t matter to Erin and I because we knew that our precious gift was on her way. Barring any complications McKinna would be born on September 10th 2008. After some initial examinations they moved Erin to the “birthing room” (237) where we stayed until McKinna arrived.
DAD TIP:
BRING A DOWN SLEEPING BAG, THE COUCHES ARE HORRIBLE.
There was a lot of waiting, beeping of machines, blood pressure taken, and iced chewed. Finally around 1:30pm September 10th, it was Erin and I alone in the room and she was 5 centimeters dilated. She and I fell asleep right after that. I was woken up at 3pm with Erin telling me that she was 10 centimeters dilated and that we were about to have a baby.
Nine minutes later McKinna Claire Wiles was born. 6lbs 9oz and 20.5 in long. Holding her for the first time brought a wave of love over me that I have never felt before. Our blessed angel was here.
Erin and I still can’t believe that McKinna came on the day when medically the chances where so low that we would have greater luck winning the lottery. I have to remind myself of rule #1 of the UB Rules…things end up how they start out. We got pregnant with McKinna a lot earlier than expected so why would she not come early as well? 