Hi!!!!!!!
I hope I can complete this thread before she wakes up again! She wants to eat all the time!!! *sigh*
Well, when I was online Wed. night and said I had been having some pains...it really was labor pains!!! They got worse overnight, and I called the Dr. but was told wait till they are 5 minutes apart. So by 11:00 am Thursday morning, I could not stand it anymore...called the hosptial, they said come in and we will check you out.
Went in, and was told it was probably false labor, since the pains were not in any sequence, sometimes 5 minutes apart, sometimes 10 or 15. But when he checked me....I was dialated to 3 cm. So over to the delivery room I went.
After several hours, it was clear that I was not dialating any more..so they gave me some drug in my I.V. to induce labor...it starts with a P, but can't rememeber the name. That's when the really really bad labor pains hit. I have never been through pain that bad in my life....I just laid there and cried, while the nurse kept telling me to relax and breathe deeply through them....easier said than done.
Finally after several more hours, I reached 4 cm, and they gave me an epidural...unfortunatley, that didn't go well either...the Dr. said my spine was bent in an abnormal way....not sure why....so instead of poking me once with the needle, he had to try about 6 times up and down my spine, to get it in the right spot. This hurt like you-know-what. I remember saying I wished I was dead.
Then the pain stopped. After I'm not sure how long, but probably an hour or two, I had only dialated to 5 cm. So they decided I would have to have a c-section, and wheeled me in. Then pretty soon (1:06 am, Friday morning) it was over. Amber was born.
She was 8 pounds, and 1 ounce.
So it was about 31 hours altogether, including the time I was at home in labor.
Brent was AWESOME!!!!!!!! I feel so bad about posting here earlier in the week last week, about how we had had a fight, and he was being a jerk, and didn't care about my feelings, etc. ect...because he MORE than made up for it!!!!!!!
He was in the delivery room the whole time, and even went in with me for the c-section. He even cut the cord, as Mary Anne told you!
Daniela, you were right! I fell in love with him all over again!!!
He stayed by my side all during the hospital stay, except for saturday night, because he had some things to take care of here at home, and spent that one night here. But then he was back early Sunday morning, and stayed till the released me, at 1pm this afternoon (Monday).
If I needed anything..he was there! He adjusted my pillows, got me something to drink, brought the baby over to me for feedings, ect...I couldn't believe how wonderful he was!!!!!!! I will never forget it!!!
They told me I could go home on Sunday, but then changed their mind when I had a bad episode Sunday morning...my blood pressure skyrocketed. The top number was 191, but I don't remember the bottom one. Also I was feeling sick to my stomach, and very light headed. My feet, legs and face had swollen way up!!!!!!
The Dr. was afraid I had toxemia, or would soon get it if the blood pressure didn't go down. He was worried that I could have a stroke.
Thye put me on blood pressure medicine, and by the next day (this morning) my pressure was back to normal, and the swelling had gone down some. So they released me this afternoon, but I have to keep taking the medicine, and have my blood pressure checked, and I can't do much, not even the dishes.
I feel pretty good tonight. Amber takes so much of my time I don't know how often I will be online for awhile, but I would like to be online awhile tomorrow to go through some of the threads here I have missed and catch up on what has been going on with all of you!!! I will do that if I get a chance!!! I don't have time tonight, as I am exhausted, but wanted to post this before bed.
I am going to attempt to post a few pics that my friend Shannon took in the hosptial with her digital camera and e-mailed to me. I don't know how to post more than one per post, so I will post one in this post, and the other two in the next two posts....
The first two are of Amber, and the last is a horrible picture of me with Amber, but it is so cute of Amber that I am going to post it anyway....keep in mind, I was very swollen up and had just been through an awful lot, so I look horrible!!! I have alot of weight to lose, too, when my incision heals up and I can exersize again.
But I am determined to get back to my old self again!!
I hope I can complete this thread before she wakes up again! She wants to eat all the time!!! *sigh*
Well, when I was online Wed. night and said I had been having some pains...it really was labor pains!!! They got worse overnight, and I called the Dr. but was told wait till they are 5 minutes apart. So by 11:00 am Thursday morning, I could not stand it anymore...called the hosptial, they said come in and we will check you out.
Went in, and was told it was probably false labor, since the pains were not in any sequence, sometimes 5 minutes apart, sometimes 10 or 15. But when he checked me....I was dialated to 3 cm. So over to the delivery room I went.
After several hours, it was clear that I was not dialating any more..so they gave me some drug in my I.V. to induce labor...it starts with a P, but can't rememeber the name. That's when the really really bad labor pains hit. I have never been through pain that bad in my life....I just laid there and cried, while the nurse kept telling me to relax and breathe deeply through them....easier said than done.
Finally after several more hours, I reached 4 cm, and they gave me an epidural...unfortunatley, that didn't go well either...the Dr. said my spine was bent in an abnormal way....not sure why....so instead of poking me once with the needle, he had to try about 6 times up and down my spine, to get it in the right spot. This hurt like you-know-what. I remember saying I wished I was dead.
Then the pain stopped. After I'm not sure how long, but probably an hour or two, I had only dialated to 5 cm. So they decided I would have to have a c-section, and wheeled me in. Then pretty soon (1:06 am, Friday morning) it was over. Amber was born.
So it was about 31 hours altogether, including the time I was at home in labor.
Brent was AWESOME!!!!!!!! I feel so bad about posting here earlier in the week last week, about how we had had a fight, and he was being a jerk, and didn't care about my feelings, etc. ect...because he MORE than made up for it!!!!!!!
He was in the delivery room the whole time, and even went in with me for the c-section. He even cut the cord, as Mary Anne told you!
Daniela, you were right! I fell in love with him all over again!!!
He stayed by my side all during the hospital stay, except for saturday night, because he had some things to take care of here at home, and spent that one night here. But then he was back early Sunday morning, and stayed till the released me, at 1pm this afternoon (Monday).
If I needed anything..he was there! He adjusted my pillows, got me something to drink, brought the baby over to me for feedings, ect...I couldn't believe how wonderful he was!!!!!!! I will never forget it!!!
They told me I could go home on Sunday, but then changed their mind when I had a bad episode Sunday morning...my blood pressure skyrocketed. The top number was 191, but I don't remember the bottom one. Also I was feeling sick to my stomach, and very light headed. My feet, legs and face had swollen way up!!!!!!
The Dr. was afraid I had toxemia, or would soon get it if the blood pressure didn't go down. He was worried that I could have a stroke.
Thye put me on blood pressure medicine, and by the next day (this morning) my pressure was back to normal, and the swelling had gone down some. So they released me this afternoon, but I have to keep taking the medicine, and have my blood pressure checked, and I can't do much, not even the dishes.
I feel pretty good tonight. Amber takes so much of my time I don't know how often I will be online for awhile, but I would like to be online awhile tomorrow to go through some of the threads here I have missed and catch up on what has been going on with all of you!!! I will do that if I get a chance!!! I don't have time tonight, as I am exhausted, but wanted to post this before bed.
I am going to attempt to post a few pics that my friend Shannon took in the hosptial with her digital camera and e-mailed to me. I don't know how to post more than one per post, so I will post one in this post, and the other two in the next two posts....
The first two are of Amber, and the last is a horrible picture of me with Amber, but it is so cute of Amber that I am going to post it anyway....keep in mind, I was very swollen up and had just been through an awful lot, so I look horrible!!! I have alot of weight to lose, too, when my incision heals up and I can exersize again.