birth story (long)
First off let me say CONGRATS! to all who have their babies already!
My story begins on Monday the 19th of May, I was having some BH ctx like I had been for weeks only on this day they were hurting my c-sec scar really bad, I ignored them until the next morning when I had an OB appt, I went in to my OB on the 20th and when he asked how I was doing I told him about the pain of my scar durring ctxs, he was able to tell when I had a ctx and I had 3 durring my visit with him, he was worried and told me that if the ctx got worse or the pain got worse to go straight to L&D but he scheduled an amnio for the 27th to check for lung maturity and we would deliver on the 28th if her lungs were mature but he wouldn't be surprised if we had to deliver before that or even if she wasn't quite ready to come because he felt that the pain I was having was my scar tearing open.
Well the night of the 20th the pain in my scar got worse, lots worse, it went from only durring ctx to all the time, I felt as if I were ripping from the inside out, a pulling, tearing, burning feeling! I went into L&D and my dr wasn't the one on call and the dr that was on call didn't feel comfortable delivering so early so he gave me dilauten and sent me home and told me to take some loritab and go to bed, so I did, I wasn't happy about it but I listened to what I was told thinking that he was an OB and knew what was best and that he wouldn't put me or my baby in danger.
Well the morning of the 21st I woke up to the phone ringing at 9am, it was my OB, He told me how sorry he was that they had sent me home the night before and he didn't feel so comfortable waiting another week to do my c-sec so I needed to deliver that day!!! I asked my Ob if I could take my son to his 18mo appt first it was at 11am, and he laughed and told me to hurry in as soon as I was done with that. LOL I was in a panic, I tried to tell my Dh to take the day off of work and started crying because I thought he was going to be mad at me, he wasn't but we were both worried for the safety of our littlest baby girl. We scrambled to call someone to watch the kids and tell our parents that we were going to be at the hospital that day, and me (being addicted to the internet) came on to my pregnancy boards that I visit the most to tell them that I would be gone for a few days and that I was having the baby that day and to collect some phone # to call and update everyone on how we were doing and how big the baby was. We got to the hospital just after 12pm that day, I got registered (I forgot to do it earlier, I thought I had more time) then we went upstairs and I got checked into a room to moniter the baby and get my IV started and drink that NASTY shot they give before the c-sec (YUCK!!!!) we had to take the other 3 kids to the hospital with us so we were waiting on my family to come watch them, they had to drive 2 hours to get to the hospital, I was so worried that they wouldn't make it and Dh wouldn't be in the OR with me, but as I was walking out of the room to the OR my family walked in just in time to say good bye and good luck to me!
It was 1:15pm when I got in the OR and they started to do my spinal, he had to try 4 times to get it in because he kept hitting a nerve on my right side (OWIE!!!) When he finally got it in I was panicing again because my right side was going numb but my left side wasn't, he said it would even out in a minute and just to stay calm and it would be ok, I am glad that he was right!!!
Dh came in a few minutes later when the dr's had already started to cut me open, with my other three c-secs I had already thrown up by now but not this time I was so proud of my self that is the first thing I said to my hubby when he asked how I was doing "I haven't even thrown up yet!!" I told him all proud of my self and then I threw up all over my own face LOL! A few moments went by and I was feeling that enormous pressure of them pushing my baby out, she came out crying but they didn't hold her up for me to see so the first thing I wanted to know was "is she still a girl?" My Dh just laughed and said "yes!!" It seemed like forever before I got to see her and nobody was telling me anything about how she was doing so I was getting nervous, finally the nurse came over and put her on my chest, I just cried and held her and then gave her a kiss before they took her to the NICU.
Zailee Avylon Lillyann was born May 21, 2008 at 1:43pm 5lb 11oz 16.5in at 35weeks.
She was given surfactant through tubes straight into her lungs to help them mature and put on the c-pap until 9am the next morning and nursed for the first time at 1pm on the 22nd, put under the bili lights on the 24th with a bili of 16 and came home on oxygen and bili lights on the 25th weighing 5lb 4.5oz. We have been home for almost a week and she is now 5lb 6oz and doing well although I don't have a darnd thing that fits her because she is so short LOL.
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