hey girls!
i thought i should update and let you all know that we had our little girl!
this is our birth story and photos!
congrats to everyone who has welcomed their gems!!
I was admitted into hospital on Sunday the 23rd of June for 2 days worth of steroid injections prior to our c-section on the Tuesday, it was a boring few days of injections and monitoring and watching my sugar levels. They wanted them steady before going into surgery and making sure that she wasn’t going to have bad levels when she came out.
Tuesday morning came and i was more than ready for the operation. I was a little nervous about the whole procedure but excited about getting to meet her. I was supposed to go up at 11am but they pushed it back to 1pm, as i was fasting it sucked! But we just spent the last few hours together relaxing before things got crazy!
The nurse came and got us and walked us up to theatre. Isaac was taken into the tea room to change into scrubs and i was taken into pre op for my spinal. I sat on the bed and was hooked up to a drip and another IV that had insulin in it for my sugar levels. I then had to get the spinal done and the local anaesthetic hurt more than the needle. I felt 2 sharp twinges in my right upper leg and then they spun me around and i felt like i had wet myself because it was starting to work already. We went into the theatre and it all came back to me about having grace. This time around though i was more aware and everything was much more relaxed. They got Isaac in when the first cut had been done. We were there talking for ages and then they started applying pressure and tugging and pulling... then the man told Isaac to stand up and have a look, he saw them pulling her out! It was 1.37pm.
she was out and when i first laid eyes on her, all i saw was fat rolls on her arms and a head full of hair! She was massive and she was finally out! They took her away to the paediatrician to get checked out.... they then said they were putting a tube down her throat because she had done her first poo as she was coming out and they wanted to make sure all her chest was clear. Then she did another poo as Isaac was cutting her cord! They cleaned her up and it took a very long time for them to stitch me up, they said i had bled a lot and it was taking a while for it to clot.
When we were out in recovery at 2.30pm, Isaac was smitten... holding his new daughter and he looked like he had met his true love but for the 3rd time ha! They tested her sugar levels because she was 1 hour old and they were 1.9 which was way too low! Luckily i had expressed 6 mls of colostrum the night before in case they were low (i didn’t want them giving her formula) so they raced her off to the nursery and i had to stay in recovery for another hour. I hadn’t even held her yet.
It was just before 4pm when i was wheeled back to the ward, Isaac was sitting there with marli and he said she had already been weight and measured and had her feed... i felt like i had been left out, the whole c-section felt like it had taken forever!
BUT.... i finally got to hold her, she was gorgeous and i was in love all over again just like when i had my first daughter!
So in the end Marli Rose was born on the 25-06-2013 at 1.37pm weighting 8lb 13.5oz and 50cms long. We stayed in hospital until the 29-06-2013 she spent 48 hours under blue lights for jaundice and those nights in the nursery getting monitored closely, but she is breast feeding perfectly and is sleeping great! We are happy to be home and she has a big sister who is all over her!
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That's pretty scary hemorrhaging like that 
but thank god we've got the abilities to suture and transfer blood and all that - happy you are all OK!
i read it happens alot.
, i'm sure the front page can wait until your done 
, good luck hun!!
