Quinn Taylor Holick

April 17, 2013

Quinn Taylor Holick

Quinn Taylor Holick was born on Friday, April 12th 2013 at 11:48 a.m. She weighed 7 pounds, 13 ounces and was 19.5 inches long. She has a head full of dark hair, a calm demeanor, and is absolutely perfect. Everyone told us that you can't imagine how much room there is in your heart to love another tiny human as much as you did with your first baby and that advice has proven true for Eric and I. We have fallen in love with this little lady and are so excited to finally be a family of four. I have a feeling of completeness knowing that we have our boy and our girl that we can nurture and share our life with and I wouldn't have it any other way.

Here is how Quinn's birthday played out:

My delivery had been scheduled weeks in advance since I had elected to have a repeat c-section. So we checked off the days and were fully prepared as we grew closer to the 12th. I was scheduled for an 11:00 c-section and was supposed to arrive to the hospital by 9:00. I didn't sleep very well the night before; so when my alarm finally went off, I hopped out of bed, got ready for the day and to spend one more hour at home with Nolan and Eric. Around 8:00, Eric drove Nolan over to Aunt Heidi's house to play for the day and then we were off!

When we arrived at the hospital we instantly knew that we were not going to have the baby on time as there were emergency c-sections left and right (we later found out that 28 babies were born on that day!!) So we settled into the waiting room for about an hour until we were called back into pre-op to answer a million questions and get ready for surgery. It was about 11:00 by the time we walked back into the OR. Eric sat in the hall while I got my spinal and was prepped and then was allowed to come back in. Exactly 48 minutes later, my doctor said, "It's baby time" and out came our little girl with a loud cry that made us breath a sigh of relief. She checked out perfectly and was cleaned off and warmed up while my doctor finished with me and then my OB walked her over and I was able to hold her for the first time as they wheeled me into the recovery room.

I got to hold Quinn for a little bit in recovery before they needed to take her to the nursery. It is a fantastic feeling to finally meet the little person that you have been carrying around for 9+ months and it made all of the pregnancy complaints disappear and everything all worth the wait. We ended up spending over four hours in recovery (yikes) while I regained feeling in my legs and we waited for a hospital room to open up (remember the 28 babies I mentioned?!) the maternity wing was PACKED!

Once out of recovery, and into our room, the family was finally able to meet baby Quinn after a long day of waiting at the hospital.

April 12th, 2013 was a wonderful day and one that we will get to celebrate each year with our healthy, happy, content, perfect baby girl, Quinn.