Sorry I haven’t posted any updates since the hospital but life has been a bit crazy! Maddie is home and doing well. She sleeps and eats a lot - however Tanner and I never get to sleep or eat… hmmm. Tanner went back to work and Mommy and Maddie are working on trying to get some sort of routine in place (which hasn’t happened yet). She is a very happy baby but also lets us know when she doesn’t like something! We haven’t been out too much but we try to go on daily walks around the neighborhood when the weather is nice and we like to visit Nana and Grandpa’s house.

Madeline Grace Hobin was born on April 1st 2008 at 3:32 pm via c-section. The Dr. told Tanner to stand up, look over the curtain and announce the birth. After moving the umbilical cord out of the way all I heard was “Its a girl” and then a big yell! YEAH!!! Maddie was out and healthy! We were so excited we were both crying and in complete shock! The nurse took Daddy with the baby to get weighed and get pictures. I still needed to be put back together. Tanner walked in with Maddie in his arms to meet me. It was the most special moment of our lives. She weighed 6 lb 6 oz and was 19 3/4 inches long. She was healthy and beautiful. Time to go share the news!!

Everything was moving along great. Almost too great! This is of course where reality was about to set in. At 11:30 am I wasn’t progressing past 7 cm so they decided to break my water. This was exciting as we were hoping this would get the ball rolling again. We knew epidurals could slow labor but stopping it wasn’t going to help us deliver the baby! Well, everything started going downhill from here… once they broke my water they realized there was meconium in the waters when they broke it. This meant NICU was going to be in the room for delivery. At 12:20 after no progression they put me on potosin. I was ok with this but it wasn’t great. At 12:38 I began spiking a fever (99.7) which concerned the staff. Again, not a panic moment but not great. The baby was starting to get “tired” from labor and started having fetal distress every time I contracted (basically the heart rate dropped dramatically with each contraction). I then went to internal monitoring and put on O2. It was started to not look good for both mom and baby. at 1:30 I was taken off the potosin as the risks to the baby were becoming too great. The emotional decision was made that we would be having a c-section to get the baby out and quick. This was very scary and emotional for both Tanner and I. They very quickly drugged me up and took me in for surgery. We were very scared but knew we were in good hands. Right before we went into surgery we got a huge surprise… Tanner’s sister CC flew in to St. Louis on a whim for the birth. She got to see us before we went in and gave us comforting words.