Kacianna and her birth story

Kacianna Lily Ford
Born December 30, 2009 at 11:28 pm
Weight: 6 pounds 9 ounces
Height: 18-1/2 inches
Hair: Dark like Mason's so far.

We are happy to announce the birth of our beautiful princess.

Kacianna was not due until the 13th of January so she was 2 weeks early. I guess she wanted to make sure that she had at least an appearance in our 2009 blog book. :)

Here is her birth story for those of you who are interested in that type of stuff...


I did not believe that I was actually going into labor. I had about 24 hours of steady contractions, about 10 minutes apart with some 20-40 minute breaks before I knew this was it. Still, I waited for them to become closer together. They started hurting to the point that I had to stop what I was doing and wait for them to finish around 3 pm. So...I went to the store. :) I had to get milk and things for dinner. THen I sat down to work at 6:30 pm (I work in our home at our computer)...and kept track of the contractions. They were steadily 6 to 7 minutes apart for about an hour, and I had to stop typing completely and wait for them to finish...and so I decided to stop working and really believe that this was happening.

Of course, since it is still the holidays, our baby sitters (my sister and brother and David's brother) were still home for the holidays, so I asked my saint of a friend and former roommate, Christy, to be our backup, not thinking that we would have to use her...after all I had never been quite this early before. She very willingly came and stayed with our boys around 9 pm so we could go to the hospital! THANK YOU CHRISTY! I don't know what we would have done without you!

I always have this fear that they are going to send me home. I think that's why I wait so long. I was relieved to hear that I was at an 8 so I could stay and I could also get an epidural!! I love those things. If you go natural on purpose, you are amazing! I can't imagine going all the way without one...even though if Carter hadn't wanted to come knees first, they were going to make me do it (I was a 10 by the time they got around to checking me after being at the hospital for an hour and a half, but that's a story for 21 months ago.) :)

Anyways. I finished dilating pretty quickly and after being at the hospital for less than two hours, our princess Kacianna Lily Ford was born. She is perfect! She had to go to the NICU for an hour because she had a lot of fluid in her lungs. Luckily, once they aspirated it and gave her oxygen, she was just fine.

We are so happy that Kacianna is here and are enjoying her sweet spirit in our home. So far she sleeps like a champ and is perfect. :)