Hi Everyone, It’s Macy Sylvia Kramarczyk here!  I had a wonderfully, tiring journey and am so happy to be here.  I was born at 5:01pm on Tuesday, December 26th.  I only weighed 6lbs 7oz!  I have posted a lot of pictures of myself on this website and hope you enjoy them.  Please excuse a few of them as I have not really figured out how to dress myself yet. 

Mom and Dad are tired and said they will let me write more later.  Thanks for all the wonderful emails.  I can’t wait to meet you all!  Love you, MACY

December 21, 2006 – We are still stuck at home due to the snow.  It has pretty much stopped snowing now.  We have about 3 feet and still can’t get out to the main road.  That may be a problem since I have an 8:30 doctor’s appointment tomorrow not to mention that we could go into labor at anytime.  We (Marc & Eric) hope to be able to shovel a short path to the next open spot and get us a path out.  Wish us luck.  Hope everyone is safe and warm. 

December 20, 2006 – Okay between being totally sick Monday night and all day Tuesday and now the biggest blizzard so far this year, don’t you think it is time for this baby girl to get here.  Everyone is telling me that sickness and blizzards bring babies.  My friend Darla says that it adds the miracle of birth story.  I agree but yet I produce no baby!  Marc told me that walking up and down stairs will bring on labor so I tried this but really only managed to make myself out of breathe and slightly sweaty.  I have been eating spicy food but really just get awful (self inflicted due to the food) heartburn.  We have tried a few other things which I will not discuss online. 

While I sit here writing this post, my wonderful neighbor, Deb, just called and has offered to be in charge of the neighborhood shovel brigade if we go into labor tonight.  She has informed me that if we need to get out to call her and all the neighbors will be out shoveling and pushing us towards the road to the hospital.  One of our neighbors tried to leave her house today at 2pm and got stuck and couldn’t go anywhere.  I am so lucky to have such wonderful neighbors that always think about other people.  We are so lucky. 

I guess I really don’t want to have this baby at home but know I would be surrounded by loving neighbors if that ended up being the case.  What a story that would make! 

Everyone stay safe and healthy this holiday season.  We love you!

 

December 17, 2006 - Laurie and Ken, thank you so very much for creating this website for Marc and me.  We love it.  I can’t wait to be able to post actual baby pictures and posts!  This has been such a wonderful present for us.  THANK YOU!!! 

We love you guys!

December 17, 2006 – So now the waiting game begins.  Now that Marc and I are officially ready, she may never get here.  I realize that there is only 8 days until or due date but I would like our baby to get here now.  It’s too bad you can’t just press a button and the baby pops out.  Marc probably would have pushed it months ago for us.  I still no idea if we have everything we need.  Oh well.  We have all our Christmas shopping done and mailed off.  Marc and I went to a nice dinner tonight and enjoyed spending the time alone.  We have relished in the quiet time together for the past few weekends as everyone we know warns us that the “honeymoon” is over as soon as our munchkin arrives.  I slept until 9:30 today!  I’ll kiss that good bye now too.  I have finally posted another picture of me.  Yes, I am officially huge now.  I hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season and are going to get everything they want for Christmas! 

December 14, 2006 -We had our 38 ½ week appointment yesterday.  The baby’s heart rate was 132, estimated weight is between 7 & 7.5 pounds (total guess on my doctors part).  I didn’t gain any weight since last week.  My blood pressure was low/normal.  Still no dilatation, effacement changes.  I had a very high protein count in my urine which prompted the doctor to run a bunch of blood tests and urine analysis.  Usually high protein reflects hyper tension which is a large concern.  The blood tests came back a little high but did not show hyper tension.  We are still weighting on the urine screen.  She thinks maybe it is a urinary tract or bladder infection that might be causing the elevation.  I feel fine so I think it just means that it is almost time to have this little baby.  I am hoping to have the baby next week.  I am setting my mind to that right now and will keep you all posted.  If my due date is correct, only 10 days left!!!!! 

December 11, 2006 – My ankles have officially left the building!!! Where have all the good ankles gone?  Up front, I apologize if anyone naturally has “kankles” and get offended by this!  I had ankles last month, even last week!  Now I have a leg and a foot.  NO ANKLES JUST KANKLES!  I hate this.  I really, really hate this.  Swelling is for the birds!  How do people handle this on a normal basis?   I just pray that my ankles will return after the birth of our child.  If not, Marc is in big trouble.  I like to blame him for things that are out of his control.  It’s a fun game I like to play.  Maybe that makes me evil, I’m ok with that. 

December 7, 2006 – We had our 37 week appointment today and I really have nothing new to report.  The baby has decided that she is not ready to come out yet.  I am still 50% effaced, no dilalation and still at -3 station.  My blood pressure was low again but I did have some protein again.  No worries there.  The baby’s heart beat was 136 and as I always say, sounded wonderful to my ears.  I am about as big as a house now and starting to get a little more uncomfortable.

I have been having a lot of pressure on my pubic bone and asked if there was anything I could do to stop it.  My doctor said “No, it will probably just get worse”.  Super, I love positive things to look forward to.  My friend was due yesterday and said that she was going to beg her doctor to induce her so that she didn’t have to be pregnant anymore.  It makes me wonder if I will feel like that in a couple short weeks. 

I have had a lot of people ask me why I was still working.  This always strikes me as strange.  What else would I be doing?  I guess I could be laying around watching Oprah and Ellen (not that that would be all that bad) and counting the moments until the baby’s arrival but I can only imagine how the long the days would become.  Overall, I feel great and work passes the days quite quickly now and I also get money for working. Not a tough choice today but I may change my mind in a week.   

The baby is moving all over as I am writing this so I think she is wanting me to say hi to anyone for her.  So “HI”! 

I hope to have more exciting news to report next time.  I tried to take a picture of my big rolly, polly body today but the battery was dead on my camera.  Maybe I can get one out there tomorrow. 

May you all stay safe, happy and healthy.  Take nothing for granted and live each day as fully as you can.  Marc and I send our love to all of you.