Mackenzie is here

I just wanted to let you all know that we had our baby girl on Saturday, June 10th at 9:47 pm(that's right it wasn't a boy like everyone thought). Since she was 5 and 1/2 weeks early she was put into the special care unit because she was premature. We named her Mackenize Anne Kirtz (her initials are MAK)

We were lucky because they were able to give me steroids during labour to help develop her lungs before she was born. She was in an incubator to keep her warm and was jaundice so she had to have light therapy. We finally got to take her home Friday evening. Being in that unit made me realized how blessed we were that she was as healthy as she was.

My parents, Trevor's parents and my sisters have been amazing. They finished getting the nursery ready, went shopping for all the things we needed to bring her home (as we were going to do that when school was done) and my mom is staying with us for the week. If it wasn't for them I'm sure I would have lost my sanity long ago.

Unfortunately we will not be able to make it to the family reunion as we need to be careful about having Mackenzie around a lot of people.

We will try our best to keep you updated and hopefully we will be able to visit soon.

Vanessa and Trevor