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Hey ladies, I know it has been a while and I am so sorry, things got super busy here toward the end of my pregnancy, so i didn't even have time to look at my computer!
Well here is my birth story, and let me say in advance I am sorry it is going to be so long, there is just so much that went along with this birth.
Phew so lets begin...back when I was pregnant with lexa I had these attacks where I felt like I was having a heart attack, and had terrible pain in my upper back...they were some of the most awful pains i had ever had, enough to make me break out in a sweat and get sick from the chest pain. Well I asked the midwife at my Dr's office about it and she told me it was gas, so I felt stupid and thought i must be a big baby if i can't handle some gas pains... so when the pains started up again with this pregnancy I just chalked it up to gas and took heartburn and gas meds everytime the pain began and it seemed like it was kinda helping. Well on July 14th at around 1:30am another attack came and I got up and took the medicine and decided to wait until it took effect so I could get back to sleep...I had planned a trip shopping with my brother for the next day, and he was excited to get out of the house (since he moved back in with his dad) at 5am the pain had not subsided in fact it was getting worse, i could barely breath without extreme pain in my chest and upper back, and when I tried to lay down the pain got 10x worse...especially on my right side...so around 5:30 DH got up to get ready for work (I was sleeping on the couch at the time cuz for the last month of my pregnancy it was the only comfy place to sleep) so when he walked through the living room to the bathroom i was sitting on the edge of the couch, and I begged him to stay home to care for lexa while I waited out the pain to stop...he of course gladly agreed, he was quitting that job that friday anyways to start another job in 2 weeks, so he called his boss and brought his blanket and pillow out to the living room and slept on the floor in front of the couch so that he could keep an eye on me, I was in severe pain when I talked to him so much so that i was crying and trying hard to control my breathing to minimize the pain...by 8:30 he woke back up and I asked him to take me to the hospital because the pain was just getting worse and I was exhausted from not being able to move from the edge of the couch (which meant i didn't get any sleep) so he called his mom to come get lexa and we headed off to the hospital after she picked her up...
We went into the triage of L&D and of course the person on call at the time from my Dr's office was the midwife...she came in after the nurse had hooked me to an iv and the NST monitors and said she was sure it was dehydration that they get like 5 of those a week to let the iv bag empty and once it was done I would feel better...so they had the IV on fast drip and it was done in like 45 minutes...(bare in mind I am still in pain and they are making me lie down to keep the NST monitors on which caused me even worse pain) the nurse then came in and started a second iv bag, and I told her look it still hurts just the same I knew I wasn't dehydrated, i was drinking like 15 glasses of water a day as well as a half gallon of orange juice a day...so she decided to have me do a urine sample and called for blood work to be done, when I came back with my "cup" she said she thought it was a kidney stone or a bladder infection since my urine was brown...so she sent it to the lab (that took another hour) and then she came in about an hour and a half later and said the results from my urine showed bellyrubin and they were testing my blood because it showed a high white count and my blood pressure was way up...(which i kept telling her was because i was in soooo much pain) she then informed me that bellyrubin in the urine was a sign that i was having a gall stone attack and possibly pancriatitus (spelling??) so they called for my Dr (not the midwife) and he was coming in to perform a csection so he said he would come to see me as soon as it was done...(which took another 2 hours because the patient arrived late for her csection and the OR and the patients room weren't set up yet)
So when he walked in (my dr is wonderful) he had a huge smile on his face and said "well there is no way for us to gaurentee we can stop the pain, however the only option i see here to maybe alliviate your pain is for you to deliever today are you ready to have a baby?" The thought of having her that day never crossed my mind, i just wanted them to make the pain stop...i figured some antibiotic and a pain pill or something and send me on my way, of course DH was thinking about it the whole time and had already packed my hospital bag in the car and sent lexa to his mom's with her bag...so we were all set... they gave me the medicine for my stomach that keeps you from getting sick, and wheeled me to the OR which this time even though i still went into shock I remember more of...
Once they got my stomach open the dr said that my uterus hadn't healed from alexa and was too thin, which i kinda laughed at... until he then explained that it meant if I went into labor it could rupture and kill me since that hospital is not equiped for high risk pregnancy... so needless to say if we do want another we will have to search for a high risk specialist and convince our insurance to let us go deliver at a high risk hospital...
ANYWAY- at 3:17pm Alivia Braylin was born weighing 5lbs 12oz, 19 inches long scoring an 8 then 9. They wheeled me back to my room, and after an hour in the nursery she joined me in the room with her daddy (just like with alexa i sent him with alivia, to stay with her until she was in my room with me.) well I felt so sore as the spinal wore off, i couldn't feel my legs or feet yet but my stomach was super sore, worse than i felt with alexa, and I was still having the gall bladder pain...so i didn't want to hold her right away so Dh and his mother held her while the nurses tried to get my morphine pump to the right dose to stop the pain (which they never did get right)
well from the job he was working Dh got a company truck and since Alivia came early he decided to quit early (which his boss was fine with he understood why dh didn't want to stay at the job, it was an hour long drive there and home, and he was working 14 hour days so he was never home) so he had to take back the company truck (it is the installation truck the only one they had and they had a big instal the next day) so him and his mom and my lil brother headed off to drop off the truck (his mom followed him there and drove him back) so i was left in the room alone, but i was feeling well enough to hold Alivia, so I was just hanging out on the bed holding her when the nurse came in, she was taking alivia to have her vitals done (normal procedure) and I noticed my bed felt wet so i reached down and broght my hand back up covered in blood, and i told the nurse that i thought my incision was draining..she looked at it and said she would be back to clean me up and change my bedding, and 5 minutes later the dr came rushing in with 3 nurses and began opening my incison...turns out i had a hematoma (a huge blood clot caught between the skin and the uterus) so he began to squeeze it to release the pressure and drain it...which hurt so bad, all i could do was scream and cry, it took about 15 minutes to drain it then he put pressure bandages across it to try to keep it from filling back up...and that part hurt just as bad...
Well after all that I realized they hadn't brought Alivia back in so I called the nurses station and the nurse came down to my room and explained that alivia had to stay in the nursery because she was showing signs of takipnia (spelling??) which meant she was breathing 120 breaths a minute where a normal baby breaths 30-50...and her white blood cell count was up so they were starting her on antibiotics...
That crushed me... i had, had a bad enough day with all the pain from the gall stones then the hematoma and now I couldn't even hold my lil girl because she was in the nursery while i was stuck on bed rest not able to move...so when DH got back all I could do was cry as I explained to him what all had happened, so he spent most of the evening in the nursery talking and holding her, which gave me some comfort.
The next morning the dr came in and explained she was on a 7 day antibiotic and wouldn't be released until the medicine was done and she showed signs of it working and when the takipnia stopped, apparently she swallowed meconium and that is what caused all the problems... so i was released on sunday (she was born on wednesday) but the hospital says the mom can stay as a guest in the hospital after she is released if her baby is still there, and she wasn't due to come out until the following wednesday, so i stayed in the same room, but i was still supposed to be on bed rest... (of course i didn't stay in bed once i could walk i was up at the nursery holding her... by sunday night she had finally reached the breathing numbers they wanted and the dr said as long as all through monday she kept it like that, that on tuesday she could come out of the nursery into our room, but she had to stay hooked up to the iv for her meds, so needless to say tuesday was a GREAT day, and Wednesday was even better since she was released at 2pm.
We headed straight to dh's mom's house to pick up lexa.. (i was in the hospital for SEVEN days and his mom only brought lexa to see me 3 times, and only for 30-45 minutes each time, and that was my FIRST time ever away from her over night so i was missing her terribley!)
The first day home was hard, lexa was out of her routine, and she didn't much like alivia needing some of mommy's time, but by the second day she fell back into her routine which made the transition easier... even though she still is jealous anytime i hold alivia to feed her or comfort her or just to hold her, but she also tries sooo hard to help which we are so happy with, and believe me she is in NO way lacking getting my attention and time, i am just so happy to have her back and have both my girls with me.
but the story isn't over yet... i tell you everything that could go wrong went wrong, where the hematoma was they had to leave open, so on my left side of the incision is a gaping hole about 2 inches long and about an inch wide and well sorry ladies about an inch deep, see the hematoma came back, and it needs to drain so they have to leave it open and let it heal from the inside out... well we were home for about 4 days when I noticed that it smelled really funny (i had to keep gauze on it and change it like every 30 minutes thats how much it drains! well i noticed the small and it began to hurt more so i called and set up an appointment with the dr for that day, he looked at it and said it looked better than he expected but he would culture it just to be sure...well the next day when the results came back he called my phone like 20 times (i keep my phone on silent so i didn't know it was ringing..) turns out it was infected seriously so, and was showing signs of ganggreen growing somewhere in it, so i had to immediately start lots of antibiotics... and if they didnt stop it then i would have to go daily to the hospital for an iv injection of antibiotics... (thankfully so far they seem to be working cuz with the iv antibiotics you can't breast feed!)
BUT the good news alivia is doing fine, she occasionally has fast breathing fits, and it can really hinder her eating at times but she is well other than that and putting on weight, at her 2 week check up she already went from 5lbs 8oz (her check out weight from the hospital) to 6lbs 8oz! and she continues to get bigger and bigger.
So there it is, I will have my gall bladder surgery and my hernia surgery sometime later on, once my incision has healed and my insides have come back together...me and DH are considering having one more in about 4 years...(i am getting an IUD to prevent our plans from coming sooner lol since i was on B/C when i got preg with alivia!) Alexa isn't sure what it means to be a big sister, and she isn't sure she likes it, but she is loving the extra attention daddy is giving her trying to make up for the times mommy is caring for alivia, she is def turning into a daddys girl, over the weekend he bought a new dirt bike and him and alexa have been all over the yard with it everyday since (i will have to post pics of her riding his motorcycles around the yard with him she LOVES to ride with him he puts her in front of him and they ride down the driveway and up the otherside - we have an acre long driveway before you get to our house and it makes a giant u around the house to the back of it... so its quite a ride for her) she also got a powerwheels, right before alivia was born, she isn't quite sure of how to steer it but she knows what the gas pedal does and LOVES riding all over the yard with it!
As for my brother he put in an application to the Maryland state police cadet program (you have to be 21 to join the regular force before that age you become a cadet) and after a long 2 weeks of waiting to see if he was accepted his letter came! as long as he passes his physical fitness and psych eval he is in!! so great news on that he finally has a plan for his life! Dh started his new job last week, he was in training working 7am to 3pm and this week (starting tonite actually) he went to his normal shift 7pm to 7am, which well is taking some getting used to...i was used to it being me and lexa and alivia during the day, and him here at night, and now hes here all day and I have to go to bed alone, ugggg, but he got another job offer and he is considering that...so we shall see (oh yeah he works 12 hours a shift but the schedule is neat he works 2 days then has 2 off then works 3 days and has 3 off, then back to working 2 days...and he works weekends, so he gets time off during the weeks and weekends when it falls on it) so since he is off the 17th 18th and 19th we are taking a huge family trip to kings dominion (the big theme park) and I can't wait since it will be like a mini vacation!! (i havent been on vacation in 3 years and i am dying to get away for a while, and I know alexa will LOVE it there)
Well there is my novel, and a small catch up on things here...1 to 2 isn't impossible but it is harder than most make it look...but eventually we will fall into a good routine and it will be easier. I will post pics to my piczo when i have time, things are so hectic around here right now...
Ohhh yeah one more person to update on, my mom. Well lets see she fell in the nursing home and broke her hip and had to have surgery on it, and before that she was in the hospital for a terrible urinary infection then she was having heart problems... well she went back to the nursing home about 2 weeks after she broke her hip (she ended up with hospital pnemonia so they had to keep her until they cleared that up) well it seems she went backwards, she has lost the ability to know when she has to use the bathroom so she is now whats called a permanant cathader patient, which means she will stay in a nursing home forever, so my plans to move her to a place with people more her age and with more to do is gone... she is also at a standstill on her progress... she has not made any since before she broke her hip... so she can't form sentances and doesn't know when she goes to the bathroom and can't care for herself... its quite depressing since we were hoping she would improve enough to move to a better place with less people and more activity...then from there get better and come home, but that isn't going to happen.
Well ladies its now midnight and alivia is waking up for some food, so i better go feed her... hope everyone is well oh yeah SOCUR- CONGRATS!!!!!!!
 
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