Our Miracle Baby: Makinlee

It all started on Thanksgiving day. We were down in good ol' Nephi for Thanksgiving.


Tyler and Kasen eating at the grand ole' feast.

On Thanksgiving afternoon and evening I had not felt the baby move but I just thought to myself I had been up busy helping prepare Thanksgiving dinner to feel the baby move. Finally around 10:00p.m. I decided I better go take a sugar drink and lay down on my side to see if I could feel some fetal movements. After sometime with no movements Tyler convinced me to go out to the Nephi hospital to have a stress test done so we could have peace of mind. We checked in and they took me into a room and while the nurses were trying to hook up the stress test monitor it felt like I had just peed my pants. My water broke right there in the hospital at 37 weeks!! The nurses told me I was having a baby and I could deliver here or be transported and deliver up in Salt Lake City. Tyler and I decided to just stay in Nephi which was a good choice. The doctor that was on call came in and started asking me a few questions and then they did a ultra sound on me to monitor the fetal movements in a 30 minute period. During that time there was no movement. My contractions were getting bad by this time so I got my epidural. After being poked 4 or 5 times my epidural finally worked. They let my epidual set in a bit and they checked me and I was dialated to a 5. The doctor finally said he felt the best thing to do was to do a c-section. I asked him if he could just give me pitocine to move along my progression but he felt the baby was under alot of stress already and thought more stress wouln't be good. While everyone was getting up to go shopping on Black Friday I was having a lovely c-section, which was the worst thing ever!! When Makinlee was born she wasn't with us. Her apgar score was a 0. They had to preform CPR on her to bring her back and then also she had swallowed her merconium(babies first poop). It took the doctors and nurses about 10 minutes to get her apgar score up to a 5. After that Makinlee was doing great!!

After the doctors got her apgar score to a 5.
First time I got to see Makinlee.

Tyler is so handsome in scrubs!!

When I was in recovery room the doctor came in and told me we have a miracle baby and it was a good thing we came into the hospital when we did or things may have not been a good out come. I am so grateful that Tyler was spiritually intunned that night!!

First time I was able to hold Makinlee in the recovery room.

Things were going good until Saturday night at about 9:00pm the doctor came in and said that Makinlees heart beat was fluxuating and he didn't like that. He felt that it would be wise to transport her up to Utah Vally NICU.

Makinlee getting ready to head up to the NICU at Utah Valley.

So I had to stay back and Tyler went up with Makinlee. Also on Staurday evening the nurses came in and told me it was time for me to get up and walking. Once I got up and standing there was a huge gush of blood. The nurses scrambled to clean up and as soon as they cleaned up there was another huge gush of blood. I ended up not going for a walk after all that. If you think things couldn't get worse, due to me loosing so much blood I ended up having a blood tranfusion.

While Makinlee was up at the NICU they did many tests to find out why her heart beat was fluxuating. They monitored her brain to see if she was having seizures, they did an EKG on her heart, they treated her with antibiotics thinking she might have an infection somewhere. After all of those tests and everything coming back normal and 5days of being in the NICU Makinlee got to come home!! The doctors in the NICU don't know why her heart beat was fluxuating but they concluded this baby is normal. They say that everyones heart beat is different and if Makinlee would have been a full term baby and delivery went smoothly her heart beat wouln't have been alarming but due to all that she went through they took precaution.

Makinlee at the NICU wearing clothes before she became jaundice.

Makinlee under the billi lights because she was jaundice at the NICU.

The night before Makinlee got to come home. Notice she isn't hooked up to anything.

Makinlee hooked to many different machines while they were doing all of their tests at the NICU.

We are home now and the fun has begun!! Makinlee is a great baby. Tyler and I are have been so blessed this holiday season!!

Kasen holding his new baby sister...MAK

Our first family picture as 4!!