First Night Home

Another photo of Makayla. Well, we made it home successfully today. Left the hospital around 1. Courtney's mom stopped by for a few minutes around 5 and held her a bit, hoping she'd wake up. She slept all day! Guess what though.. this means she likes being up tonight. Usually she was up during the day because people liked to visit her. We just fed her another bottle though and she seems content for the moment. I have a feeling it's going to be a long night. I'm going to go to bed soon but I expect to be getting up at 4am for a changing and a feeding. Courtney passed out on the coach as she should have a few hours ago. She's opening her eyes a lot more too. She liked to stare at our christmas tree. Very cute, very fun and very a pain in the butt sometimes but I wouldn't have her any other way! She's still a good baby!

FINALLY!

Makayla Nicole Malta

November 27, 2007 at 8:58

6 pounds, 12 ounces

20 inches long

We went to Winnie Palmer on Tuesday morning at 4 am to get induced. We got induced around 6 am and stopped around 8pm... 14 hours of labor and our stubborn child didn't progress. There was a nurse that didn't help at all for 12 hours but I'm not going to get into that. Fact of the matter is we got a C-Section between 8-9 after a new RN came because Makayla was under stress. She was born just before 9 and Courtney had to be separated from her for a couple of hours while she recovered. I went back and forth and took pictures and videos of our baby to show Courtney while she recovered. We finally went upstairs and even though they said our baby will be there before us she still wasn't. We didn't get her until 2 am. We stayed with her for about an hour or so and then sent her to the nursery because we were dead tired.

Had a lot of visitors today... kind of over did it with visitors actually. Was a long stressful day. Courtney is walking a little bit now and we can't believe the baby is here!

It's crazy! All in all we had a good birth. Courtney is in pain still but that's natural with c-sections and I'm helping with everything I can and I'm feeding Makayla and changing diapers. I will now leave you with some pictures from the past few days.

Showing off her full head of hair


She's not very happy about this.


Courtney seeing Makayla for the first time.


First family photo






Grandma Amy w/ Makayla


Aunt Alyssa w/ Makayla


She likes her paci!

Delivery Room

We got to the hospital at 4 this morning. We got a bed around 5 or 5:30. Got situated around 6 and now we're just waiting. I hear Makayla's heartbeat and I can watch Courtney's contractions come and go. Last night I only got about an hour of sleep. From like 1 to 2 or so.

This is the point of no return and it's really, really scary. I'm going to have my baby tonight. Scary as hell, right? Me, father? lol.

Okay. I don't want to spend too much time on the computer because I want to spend it with Courtney.. just have some "quiet time" right now. I can't believe this is happening!

-Mark

Post - Long weekend

It was a good long weekend. Sat on our butt's and didn't really do anything. It was our last weekend to relax, for sure. We will definitely have our baby this week. The night after thanksgiving we went to The Melting Pot for our last dinner out. Had some good food. Saturday I took Courtney to Target so she could get some Christmas shopping done and I went to Borders and looked at some design books. I found a book that has a whole bunch of ad's from the 1950's. That stuff amazes me because everything is hand drawn, including the typography. I would be interested in having one of these books. Anyways, so then I cleaned my car and put the car seat in. The car seat thing is weird but I'll get used to it.

Today we cleaned the apartment and put up the Christmas tree. To me it's officially Christmas time... and my birthday is less than a month away so that's something to look forward to!

Successful Thanksgiving

I'd say that this was a successful Thanksgiving. Went to my in-laws and stuffed my face. Had some good turkey and stuffing and potatoes and stuff. After that went to may parents and surprised them. They didn't think we were coming so that made them really happy. Ate a little more and then came home. I had an appointment with my bathroom.

Good ending to a good day. Watching the Incredibles now on NBC. There is a commercial every 5 minutes but that's okay.

We have less than 1 week before the baby comes! Crazy!!

Tomorrow we're going to clean the apartment and put up the Christmas tree. I'll probably wash my car too. Thinking about seeing the new National Treasure movie this weekend too before all the craziness.

I can't believe it!

Just kidding. That's not ours. But that's how we feel. We're still waiting. Courtney is really upset that she still hasn't had the baby. We've been hoping to have her for about a week now and knowing that it could potentially go on for about 12 more days is killing her. US. Knowing the way that life seems to function, we will probably have Makayla next week around ThanksGiving when we don't want to be in the hospital. The only day we don't want to be there, we will probably be there.

Courtney is really stressed out. Doesn't like to travel. Bored all the time. Can't do the things we usually like do. Plus there are no good movies in the theaters!

Just a bit of info: Today is Courtney's due date according to her last period/date of conception. Doctor did the due date based on measurements early on and he set it for the 23rd. If we're not in the hospital by the 29th he will induce on the 30th. He says it's a week but we see it as 2 extra weeks. Two extra weeks of hell. We just want her water to break :(

In other news we got our first Christmas tree and some ornaments. Can't wait to own a house and decorate outside. It will be a little plain this year but oh well. I can rest easy knowing that by Christmas we will definitely have the baby. For sure.

Next post I make will probably be from the hospital with the for real picture of the baby.

- Mark

2 or 3 more weeks!

I'm awake. Can't sleep.. geeking out about "Leopard", CS3 and iLife '08. So I'm up consolidating files on my laptop so I can wipe it clean and start over with some new software and a new OS. My laptop seems to be getting slower by the months but it still runs hard for me. Getting iLife from a friend named "Demonoid". So far it's been downloading for 24 hours and I have about 13 to go so by lunch tomorrow I should have it! At which point I will have all my crap saved somewhere and Leopard ready to install!

Sorry geek moment.

Courtney is doing well. She's kind of mad because the doc said she's not dilated in the slightest yet. We expect baby Makayla sometime around Thanksgiving still. Believe me though, she's going to try every trick in the book to have her early! Most of her clothes are washed and I even took the swing out to leave in the living room. Sort of a reminder of how little time of "peace and quiet" we have left. I'm happy though. We also got her car fixed up, apartment carpet deep cleaned, kitchen organized (there are 2 cabinets full to the brink with baby stuff), baby stuff assembled and the hospital bag packed.

Work stuff is going alright. Had a lot of progress on Friday and Monday then the entire network crashed. Oh JOY. I was down at the end of Monday and most of Tuesday. Today we decided to try and install the new Mac operating system 10.5 (or Leopard) onto one of the machines and wound up just wasting our time. We're not going to mess with it for a little while now. Have to meet a Friday deadline because Brian will be out on Mon/Tue. Friday our new designer, Amanda comes in to fill out paperwork, claim her cubicle and go pee in a cup. Yay for drug tests. Monday she officially starts and I will now have time to concentrate on bigger stuff that's going on at the company. Woohoo! Now let's just see if she sticks around...

The next few weeks are full of adventure. I can see it already.