On Saturday July 5th, I started having occasional contractions, some would bring me to my knees, others would stop me in my tracks... plus I started having HORRIBLE back pain= Back Labor.. I would never wish this upon my worst enemy!!
Every day seemed to get a little worse, but the Dr. said it's just not time yet...
Wednesday July 9th, we went to one of Nick's friends Surprise 40th Birthday party... on our way home, I had 3 HORRIBLE Contractions, within 30 minutes ... finally as we were walking into the house, that one literally brought me to my knees in tears, I stood up and thought possibly my water broke, so we went to the hospital.. spent 24 hours there to only be sent home.. no water broke and only dilated to a 2 and 60% effaced :-( but the Dr. said I have a feeling it's going to happen in the next 1-3 days...
So we went home on with our normal routine, Friday night we went shopping and I walked quite a bit.... Saturday morning I cleaned the entire house, did all the laundry, showered and I was getting ready to head to Walmart, and well My water officially broke....or at least half broke... I called Nick to come home he was at the neighbors and as soon as he got home we left.... headed to the hospital, on the way there, it completely broke.. Thank God for leather seats LOL.
We arrived at 3:15pm on Saturday July 12, Dr. confirmed my water broke and said I see this baby coming between 2-3 am if you haven't dilated by 9 we'll start Pitocin. I was doing great.. I really hadn't had many contractions, more major back pain... but around 6:45 the contractions kicked in BIG TIME.. and so did the Back labor... it was awful... finally around 8ish I was dilated enough I could have an epidural... Those things are AMAZING.. whomever invented those.. I could kiss.. although it didn't touch the back labor unfortunately. Finally around 11:15pm She said I was dilated to a 10 started getting ready and the Dr. arrived. I started pushing at 11:35 and at 11:50 our little miracle entered this world! Your entire world changes in an instant and I cried like a little baby! 4 weeks early, but he was PERFECT!!
Everything was going great... went home Monday night... but his bilirubin was up a little.. So we had to go back the next day to get it rechecked... it went up again.. so we went home with a bili light for him, for 2 days.. and it still kept rising, so we had to admit him on Thursday for 5 days.. it was the WORST 5 days of my life.. since I'm breastfeeding I had to stay there... and it was awful seeing my little guy get pricked, prodded and messed with 24/7... at one point, I'm sure they wanted to enter me into a mental institute, between no sleep being at a hospital, and worrying about him I was not a very nice person! Finally Nick talked me into going to grab dinner, outside the hospital... we came back and the Nursery was PITCH black, no babies in sight.. Ian was 1 of 2 baby boys on the Bili Light... So we go to the Nurses station, and they had done Shift change while we were out. We asked the Nurse where our son was, and said he was on the bili light... and she said Oh his parents just took him home... WHAT?????? She then proceeded to say Who are you guys... are you the grand-parents... had I not been more worried about where my son was at, I probably would have choked her.. Grandparents, Really?? We said NO we are his parents... she said Oh.. well calm down.. lets go see... Well they didn't have a nurse for the Nursery so he was in with the NICU nurses... Ahh... heart-attack gone...
Finally the next day, I was so over the hospital, I broke down started crying... they had Children's Mercy Dr.'s in there looking at him, NICU Nurses everything in the last 4 days... he wasn't pooping to get all the Bilirubin out and they couldn't figure out why... finally Our Dr. said.. Do you want to go home.. YES YES YES!! We got to go home Monday the 21st... Guess what little man did that night.. he had not 1 but 2 yes 2 blowouts!! He just needed to be in the privacy of his own home LOL
We are doing good... getting our nights and days straightened out.. he likes to Rockstar occasionally!
Mommy and Daddy are adjusting to little or no sleep, but he's worth it! I wouldn't trade him for the world! If I can tell anyone going through infertility one thing...
NEVER GIVE UP!!! We almost did, and if we had, we wouldn't have this little miracle!!
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