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We’re fully baked! Welcome to Mackenzie Lynne van der Stock

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What a week!

Today, we came in for a nice ultrasound with the in-laws so they can see, and maybe beg our obgyn for an earlier inducement. We sort of got what we wanted, and then some! We never made it to the obgyn appointment as things had moved on!

In a whirlwind, it turned from being low on amniotic fluid to immediate inducement followed by lots of pain then to much earlier than expected epidural to … well, let’s just say a lot of folks rushed in and thirty minutes later we are the proud parents ofMackenzie Lynne van der Stock!


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Awesome! She might have come a little early (38 weeks), but that’s not a day too soon for Tanya, who has had a very difficult pregnancy.

Mackenzie weighed 2.75 kg (about 6 lbs 1 oz after conversion - even the US folks measure in metric for babies now!) and is 50 cms long today.It’s been very exhausting and I’m using a tiny connection to the Internet via my mobile phone, so things will have to wait until tomorrow. We have photos and movies.

UPDATE: Photos here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/vanderaj/Mackenzie/

Written by vanderaj

December 12th, 2007 at 1:54 am

10 Responses to 'We’re fully baked! Welcome to Mackenzie Lynne van der Stock'

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  1. totally wonderful - she looks real pretty :-)

    Inger

    12 Dec 07 at 2:33 am

  2. Well done!
    Congratulations to you both. I hope Tanya and baby are well… not to mention Andrew for living through a Caesar and not fainting!

    Chris Vanderstock (Brother)

    12 Dec 07 at 4:35 am

  3. Congratulations to both of you! It’s been a long tough pregnancy by all accounts, now the fun starts! I just know you are going to love being parents!

    Rogan

    12 Dec 07 at 10:43 am

  4. WOO HOO CONGRATS ON THAT BEAUTY!!!

    Caralyn

    12 Dec 07 at 9:10 pm

  5. Welcome Mackenzie Lynne van der Stock :)

    Serg

    12 Dec 07 at 9:54 pm

  6. Andrew (and Tanya (we’ve not met),

    Congratulations on the arrival!

    Regards,
    Roy.
    P.S. Andrew, I will meet you at the station at 7:30

    Roy

    13 Dec 07 at 6:04 am

  7. Hi Andrew,

    Congratulations to you and Tanya! Start of a whole new era for you both.

    Regards,

    Louis

    Louis

    16 Dec 07 at 3:48 pm

  8. WOW!! Congratulations to the parents and welcome to young Mackenzie!!

    So Andrew you have been doing a lot more than playing with computers over there in the US :-). Fantastic

    Cheers
    Jenz58

    Jen Littlechild

    25 Dec 07 at 7:37 pm

  9. Welcome to this World Mackenzie!
    Congratulations to the parents … enjoy the wonderfull newborn life!

    Eddy Van der Stock

    31 Dec 07 at 11:42 am

  10. Get my Grand daughter off the internet!

    John Vanderstock

    1 Dec 08 at 7:18 pm

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