So I woke up at around 6 a.m. on 8/27/09 Thursday Morning and felt a little uncomfortable, my chihuahua who was sleeping behind my knees took off and went to sleep with my husband. I rolled over and went back to sleep. My alarm went off and I got up at 7:30 a.m. I felt a little trickle run down my leg, I just thought it might be some extra discharge. As I go about feeding the dogs I feel a little more and then a little more to where a puddle collects on the floor. I then wake my husband and tell him that "I think my water broke" in his sleepiness he says "sit down, note time, call doctor". I call the doctor and she tells me to head to the hospital, go to the 4th floor and they will test and see if it is amniotic fluid. I had a doc appointment at 9:50 that morning anyway so I decide to take a shower and get dressed. My husband takes a shower and then we head out the door after we got all my bags, pillows, and makeup kit. We arrive at the hospital at around 9 o'clock. I never ate breakfast or even took my prenatal vitamin so I am hungry! They will not let me eat because it came back positive that my water has broken so I am being checked in and taken to Labor and Delivery.
My doctor orders pitocin to get me to contract because I wasn't contracting. This is not how I wanted to start my first childbirth, I've heard pitocin makes your contractions very hard compared to natural contractions. About 20 mins later the pitocin is working and I'm get contractions. They start off about 3 to 4 minutes apart but they are not too bad. My doctor comes to see me at about 12:30 and checks that I'm only dilated by 1 1/2 cm. My husband and I talk to her for a while she tells us that they baby will be awhile. My husband then has to go, his customers need stuff done and he promises to be back soon. He brings me my pillows and bag before he leaves. My contractions start to get worse and I ask for the pain meds they put in your I.V. That works for me I go all the way to 3:30 when my contractions start to hurt really bad! I mean I'm really rethinking my no epidural policy! My husband gets there and I tell him that I might want an epidural he asks if I'm sure and I tell him no but then a very large contraction occurs and I say I might go ahead and take one. They check my cervix and I'm dilated to 9 cm and this kid is coming now!
My doc then comes in and checks my cervix again and I'm at 10cm! They break the bed apart and get me in the stir-ups and tell me to get ready push. The doc then tells me that after my next contraction when I feel the urge to push to breath in and then push. After only 29 minutes of pushing Aric Logan was born at 4:29 P.M. on Thursday 8/27/09. I got to hold him for 5 mins and the the doc had to start stitching me up as my husband got to take pictures of the baby and hold him.
What happened next was unexpected. They came over and said that he has a little fluid in his lungs and that he was going to the transitional nursery to be checked out and I don't get to keep him for the first few hours. They never brought him back. I finally got to see him again at around 8 o'clock that night. They brought him to my recovery room and told me he has a Cleft Palate and he had a dusky spell (he stopped breathing) and so he has to go to NICU.
This was just the beginning of our ordeal!!
~Breianna~
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Albert Einstein
Monday, August 31, 2009
Saturday, August 29, 2009
I think a Fortune Cookie Got Me Pregnant!!!!
Where do I start with this one? I think a fortune cookie got me pregnant. I think it started back on the first week of December. My husband and I were eating Panda Express and my fortune cookie's fortune was I quote "You will experience a life changing event at the end of summer". I showed my husband and started laughing, I mean what could happen that far off? My husband keeps looking at the fortune and the ask me point blank "Are you pregnant" I start laughing hysterically at this. I stated that I just had my period 2 weeks ago and the fact that we tried very hard to get pregnant a few years ago when I was a housewife and it never panned out that I pretty much doubt I'm pregnant! Two weeks later I'm experiencing extreme tiredness, like I will try and force myself to stay awake and I can't! My husband is getting upset with me because all I do is work come home and then sleep. He gets to spend no time with me. I then wake up feeling nauseous 2 days in a row and throw up. On the 2nd day I decide I might need to take a pregnancy test because I'm 1 week late and I have never been more then 3 days late, I'm like clockwork. I take 4 test on 12/30/2008 with my husband before I can believe it! On the 4th test my husband states that he's pretty sure I'm pregnant and every brand can't be wrong! I take a 5th just to be sure! Sure enough I'm Pregnant! I immediately give up smoking cold turkey! (OK I do have 2 more cigarettes, 1 following the first test result and then 1 45 minutes later when I all begins to sink in!)
Over the next 2 months I'm either working, sleeping or throwing up. Where is the wonder of pregnancy? This can't be all pregnancy is all about! I have been reading all the pregnancy books and baby books so by week 18 I'm ready and waiting to feel him move. No movement. I get an ultrasound on week 19 and we find out it's a boy! My husband is estatic! He almost jumps over me to look at the screen better when the tech tells him it's a boy and says I quote "He can't change his mind now can he? It will be a boy?" The tech says that it is pretty definite and he would be willing to bet his paycheck on the fact that our little bundle will be a boy. That just does it we are over the moon! We both wanted a boy and we where going to have one! At this time I also find out why I never feel the little guy move, my placenta is on the front wall and so any time he is kicking or pushing on me the placenta cushions the blow so I don't feel it. Nothing to worry about, just harder to feel him.By week 22 I'm feeling little flutters but this being my first pregnancy I'm not 100% sure what they are.
On April 24 the little guy gives me his first hard kick! Baby Aric is moving in there! About time I felt something! Over the next 10 weeks I'm feeling great! It is starting to get hard to bend, I don't have a waist anymore! And the swelling is getting bad! My doctor tells me that my swelling is severe and if my blood pressure wasn't so stable she would be putting me on bed rest.I stay very active the whole pregnancy but I gain over 64lbs! I have lost a lot of weight before so this is only a slight bother. I just can't wait till he gets here!
~Breianna~
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Albert Einstein
Over the next 2 months I'm either working, sleeping or throwing up. Where is the wonder of pregnancy? This can't be all pregnancy is all about! I have been reading all the pregnancy books and baby books so by week 18 I'm ready and waiting to feel him move. No movement. I get an ultrasound on week 19 and we find out it's a boy! My husband is estatic! He almost jumps over me to look at the screen better when the tech tells him it's a boy and says I quote "He can't change his mind now can he? It will be a boy?" The tech says that it is pretty definite and he would be willing to bet his paycheck on the fact that our little bundle will be a boy. That just does it we are over the moon! We both wanted a boy and we where going to have one! At this time I also find out why I never feel the little guy move, my placenta is on the front wall and so any time he is kicking or pushing on me the placenta cushions the blow so I don't feel it. Nothing to worry about, just harder to feel him.By week 22 I'm feeling little flutters but this being my first pregnancy I'm not 100% sure what they are.
On April 24 the little guy gives me his first hard kick! Baby Aric is moving in there! About time I felt something! Over the next 10 weeks I'm feeling great! It is starting to get hard to bend, I don't have a waist anymore! And the swelling is getting bad! My doctor tells me that my swelling is severe and if my blood pressure wasn't so stable she would be putting me on bed rest.I stay very active the whole pregnancy but I gain over 64lbs! I have lost a lot of weight before so this is only a slight bother. I just can't wait till he gets here!
~Breianna~
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Albert Einstein
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