3xpire
Mother to Kalei Mae (:
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This announcement/birth story is a little bit late, but it has been a very busy week. But I finally had her July 4th, 2013.
I went to the hospital the morning of the third because I was having intense pains and consistent contractions. I was told I was just experiencing braxton hicks and I more than likely wasn't in labor because I wasn't dilated. (I knew and felt this was complete b.s., but I just took their word for it.) So they sent me home. As soon as I got home, and for the next two hours, I was crippled in pain, bawling my eyes out, and lurched over the toilet vomiting every ten minutes while the contractions got more and more intense. I ended up calling back in and they rushed me back into labor and delivery. The nurse hooked me up to the monitors and checked me once again. I was 2 cm dilated and 50% effaced. She told me I was in labor. (See I knew I something wasn't right!)
My mom and dad had my fiance rush over to the hospital and we all waited while I was in labor for the next 24+ hours. During my labor I had asked for an epidural, and I got it. In fact, the normal epidural wasn't working on me (the anesthesiologist figured it was probably because of my height), and so I was put on the same pain medication they use for women getting C-Sections. I received two rounds of that. It was now the morning of July 4th, my pain medication/epidural had worn off completely, and I had asked to receive another round, and they were going to bring it to me. The OB came in and let me know that my contractions weren't adequate enough; that they weren't strong enough or close enough, even after receiving pitocin to try to strengthen them. Ten minutes after she left the room, a nurse came in to check me and my progression. As soon as she went in to check, she kind of smirked and said it was time, and that the head was RIGHT there. She also told me that she was not going to wait for the pain medication, and that I needed to start pushing.
Oh god was I terrified. I went into this being thankful I was going to at least receive some sort of pain medication for the pushing, and at this point, I was now shaking in my boots, and just a little angry.
After just thirty minutes of pushing and an episiotomy, and with my queezy (but yet ballsy for watching the labor) fiance and little sister at my side, my beautiful little Kalei Mae came weighing at a whopping 9 lbs. 15 oz.!
Unfortunately, I was robbed of skin to skin contact and even a full minute to get a good hold in, as she was rushed to the NICU because she was having horrible troubles breathing.
About twenty minutes later the Neonatologist came in explaining that she had meconium in her lungs, and that they were to get her on antibiotics and an iv and have her on oxygen.
It's been six days since her birth, and she is still in the NICU, slowly but surely progressing and getting stronger. She shows no sign of infection, but still struggles to be able to breathe normal room air. So for now, every day is a trial and error, removing the oxygen tubes to see how she does, and putting them back in when she relapses.
It has been the most difficult week of my entire life, running twenty minutes every day out to the hospital to see my baby girl still on oxygen and hearing the news that she still cannot breathe without. But I am one VERY proud mama.
For being a first time mom, at the age of twenty, and pushing out an almost ten pounder naturally, I feel like I've definetly got some balls! lol.
well done on such a fab job xxx
Hopefully she'll soon be home, NICU is a tough road (my little guy hits his 2 weeks there at midnight), try to look after yourself as much as you can between all the visits
