(May 23)
Lovely little Maia Louise is finally here since 20th May, weighs 3.33kg (around 7lbs, I think) and is adorable. Nightmare delivery, home birth plans went out the window as I lost most of my water after a night of strong contractions, and then after about 12 more hours, lost the rest and we went to hospital so they could monitor her closely. Cervix refused to dilate and so they gave me oxytocin/pitocin which of course put the baby in distress, so it was agreed that I would have emcs. This was after 2 days of no pain relief so I felt destroyed! She came out covered in meconium so they kept her in neonatal but she's fine to come home with me today yay
(May 31)
Nightmare since I last posted! The day after coming home (without the hospital realising I had an infection) I had febrile convulsions due to a raging fever, low bp, high heart rate, literally crapped myself and passed out on the floor in a pool of it, and had to be stretchered in an ambulance to hospital.
I finally came home last night. The doctors couldn't decide whether the infection was in my uterus or incision (finally said incision) but even though the antibiotics were treating it, they couldn't figure out why they couldn't break my fever. Turns out leaving the IV in same vein too long had caused an infection in the vein gah! One clever nurse figured it out and once she swapped arms, my temperature started slowly dropping.
Urgh! And the day before that, the gynaecologist was examining my incision and to confirm his suspicions it was infected in the layer below sent the nurse for gloves and long nosed tweezers and then just stuck them in and opened it up, no warning, no freezing. I feel like I've been through the wringer.
Glad to be out; have to attend my local health centre every couple of days to check infection is healing. I'm gutted she spent her first night in neonatal without her parents but she doesn't seem worse for it and I'm holding her lots. Weirdest thing is, she can smile lol. OH thought it was wind, but she's been smiling since I met her on Day 2 in neonatal; she only does it when she's wide awake and listening to us talk while making eye contact. I can't find any information online to corroborate this being fact - everything says babies smile with intent from 5wks - but she's a definite smiler. I think I caught some on video the other day, need to check.
She's a good sleeper, sleeps 3hrs or more at a time; I felt like waking her this morning - most babies don't stay asleep! - but my breast was leaking so badly and I needed her to help me out
Hoping the end is near. Feeling lots of niggles but nothing to write home about.
