chandler megan smith

As promised, birth story for daughter number 2...

 

 

Our original due date was September 29, but we knew we wouldn't have the baby on that date because I would have a c-section since I had one with Madeline.  During one of our visits to see Dr. Perry in Jackson, they moved the date up to the 27th.  The sonographer even commented on the last visit in August that the baby was face down, head down and I asked what that meant and she said, "this baby will be born at 37 weeks."  Yeah right, whatever!!  Madeline might never have come, so certainly this baby would do the same thing..haha!  As September approached, we scheduled a delivery date, Wednesday, September 19 at 8:30 a.m.  We had even spoke with our pediatrician, and he was going to be there, too.  Soooo, on the morning of Wednesday, September 12, Chandler had another plan!!  I woke up that morning having some "pains" but I just chalked it up to being 37 weeks pregnant and went on to work.  About 9:30, I started having some different kind of pains, but wasn't really sure if they were contractions, because remember, I never felt ANYTHING with Madeline!!  So I decided to stay calm and finish some reports and get some things ready for my sub just in case this baby was coming sooner than we thought.  I didn't get too alarmed until I passed a little blood and was still having some pains, so I called the doctor's office and left a message for the nurse to call me back.  In the meantime, I called Kris to tell him what might be happening and he was cutting grass and said for me to call him or Mike if I needed him.  One of my fabulous co-workers, came in some time during all of this and offered to take me to the doctor if I needed her to.  Now, this may be too much information but I lost that (plug), which up to that day I had NO CLUE what that was, well I do now!!!  I then called the doctor's office again and they told me to come in at 1:15 and it was almost 12:00.  She wasn't alarmed at all and I was beginning to freak out just a little and decided to take my co-worker up on the offer to drive me to the clinic and to stop by the house and pick up mine and the baby's bags (just in case).  I called Kris to tell him to meet me at the clinic, but guess what...he doesn't answer!  Sooo, I call Mike and you guessed it..he doesn't answer!!!  Didn't they know I could be having a baby?!?  Eventually he calls me back and meets me at the clinic.  But my sweet mother-in-law informed me that even when you loose that (thing), it could still be a week before we had the baby! So, I still kept thinking that we weren't going to have this baby today and so did Kris, because he told Mike that he would meet him at the next yard after he left the doctor's..boy were we wrong!!  They get us back pretty quick and listened to the baby's heartbeat and checked my blood pressure.  I am laying on the table waiting for the doctor when I feel like I tee teed on the table, so I asked my wonderful husband to make sure.  Now, rewind to when Madeline was born..they had to keep checking on him during the delivery because he was just about to pass out.  So, needless to say, he isn't much help in a crisis when it comes to us, but can pull strangers out of burning buildings and cars..what can I say, he loves us!! :)  As I was saying, I needed him to see if my water had broken and this was his response, "but there is not any on the floor and it didn't gush out on the floor!"  Um, I think that only happens in movies ha!  But anyway, he then times my contractions and what I thought had to be 10 minutes apart were really 2 minutes apart!  I then said "get some help!!"  And off he goes running down the hall, telling anyone who would listen because he wasn't about to birth our baby!!  One of the doctors came in and checked me and said "yes your water has broken and you are 4 cm dilated."  What?!?!?  This baby was not scheduled to come until NEXT Wednesday!!!  I still had to get my hair done because I had some major roots and was looking like white trash and I was planning on getting a pedicure so my toes would look good, too.  As for Daddy, he had been cutting grass, so can we say "FILTHY" in his cut off t-shirt!!  We were looking great!  haha  This baby was coming whether we liked it or not, so they put me in a wheelchair and wheeled me over to the hospital and up to the fourth floor while Kris went to admissions.  Now the contractions were coming on faster and harder and I was getting pretty uncomfortable, but my darling hubby was doing everything in his power to help make me feel better.  For example, he was "helping" me breathe in and out and I told him to get his hot breath out of my face!!!  And as he is backing off, he says, "just think, Megan, you will only have to do this one more time!"  Ooooo, if I could have gotten my hands on him, I would have strangled him!!  And P.S., IF there is ever a third time, it is going to be a while from now!!  They FINALLY gave me something for pain..that was the worst pain I have ever felt in my life!  After I had Madeline, I kept saying how I wanted to know what a contraction felt and that I didn't "experience" the whole birthing process...well now I have and don't care to ever feel it again!  They got us back into the O.R.  Now, remember we were scheduled with Dr. Remley and Dr. Charles for the next Wednesday..but God is so good and they were both on call that day and were able to be with us!!  And at 3:59 p.m., we met our beautiful daughter for the first time..  Dr. Charles took pictures for us and they even let me hold her and introduce her to the family!  What a nice change from Madeline's birth..this is what it is supposed to be like.  Chandler's birth and pregnancy were much better experiences than Madeline's was and I am glad given all that we had been through to get her here..again GOD IS SO GOOD!!  Everything checked out with her and the echo showed that there was no change in her heart condition which was a good thing.  She even passed her hearing screening!  Dr. Charles said that she didn't have a heart murmur, so...if we hadn't been to Jackson to check on the kidneys, we wouldn't have found the hole in the heart and so on.  You get the point..The Lord works in mysterious ways.  She was good and I was great!!  I bounced right back this time!  Everything happened so fast that big sister wasn't there for the birth, so "Miss Misa" brought her up to the hospital wearing her "big sis" shirt.  They finally brought Chandler in our room about 8:00 that night and the look on Madeline's face when she saw her little sister was priceless.  Brought tears to every one's eyes just as it is doing to me now!  She was in love and so very proud!  We only actually had to stay in the hospital 48 hours and were able to go home.  Even though I gave/still give Kris a hard time, I wouldn't have wanted anyone else by my side through either one of these amazing experiences!!  The day our family became a family of four was a wonderful, blessed day!!

Chandler Megan Smith

7 lb. 14 oz, 19 in. long

 

 

 

P.S. These amazing pictures and all my professional pictures are taken by my friend, Amanda Smith.  Her website is www.reflectionsbyamandasmith.com.  Check it out..she does incredible work and if she can capture the best pictures of our little monkeys, she can do anything!!!

until next time,
Megan