Our Baby Story

Well it finally happened! Madeline Tracy Johnson was born at 4:02am Saturday Morning. Here's a quick breakdown of our birth experience:

We were scheduled to induce at 7am Friday morning. At 8:30am they gave Dianne Petocin to start her contractions. Things were pretty uneventful until about about 3pm when she was dilated to 4cm and they broke her bag of waters. Her contractions got gradually stronger until 8pm when we decided to have a epidural. They administered the epi at 8:30pm which was just in time since her contractions were becoming unbearable. Not much happened for the next few hours, and we even managed to get some sleep.

At about 2:30am she was fully dilated and we started to push, this went on for about an hour and a half and was actually not as bad as we expected (we actually had a bet that if she yelled out "Kelly Clarkston" when the pain got really bad I would treat her to a movie, but she didn't so she owes me a movie).

Then at 4:02am, with Dianne's mom Kay and Nick's mom Diane in the room, baby Madeline was born!

The next few hours were a blur until we finally got to sleep for an hour or so. Then we spent a lot of time with family and friends until we kicked everyone out at 6pm so we could rest. Later that night we were moved to the overflow wing which was nice and quiet and we managed to get a pretty good nights sleep.

Sunday morning we relaxed, practiced feeding and eventually went home around 4pm. Great Grand Parents Jack and Peggy brought us dinner and visited with us for about and hour.

After they left we relaxed and settled in for our first night at home.