tinamarie4685
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Hey everyone!! I had Brianna! She was born at 1:12pm on May 27th, weighing 7lbs 5oz and she was 18.5 inches long.
I saw the post that Kristy started, updating everyone on the news! I wanted to come on here so bad while I was in the hospital but I didn't have any internet acess! So thanks Kristy for posting!!!!
I figured I'd start a new post with the pictures... lemme give you the 411 on the day of the c-section though.
We woke up and I felt like crap.. but I thought it was just nerves.. so I went to the bathroom and threw up and was having bad heartburn (had it bad the prior day too .. like SO bad I thought I was going to die) but didn't think too much of it. We got to the hospital and I was hooked up to the monitor that measured Brianna's heartbeat & her movements.. and the nurse showed me that I was actually having contractions! I looked at the sheet and the contractions were happening A LOT and were getting closer together, but then they became random at times. Murphy's Law, right? Go in for a c-section and I start contracting! We did an unltrasound and Brianna was still breech. I then wheeled to the O.R. and Kenny was with me the whole time - the spinal didn't hurt much, and after they were done putting it in they layed me down right away and my bottom half of my body went numb. Brianna was born within 15 mins and as I was laying there as they were finishing me up, we just heard her screaming cries and I was just crying the whole time... I wanted to see her SO BAD, but they only showed her to Kenny and I for 5 seconds and then whisked her away to test her sugars since I was on an insulin drip IV because of the CF diabetes. They brought me to recovery and told me i would see her within 2-3 hours. It was around 1:30pm.. and they kept coming in and telling me she was perfect, but they needed to test her sugars more. It was now 6pm and I was flipping out because I hadn't even touched her or seen her yet. It was CRAZY absurd. I was cursing and crying and just wanted to see my baby!!!!! Kenny kept running back and forth to the NICU to check on her (they had her in the NICU because of my diabetes) and they kept saying she was fine, so he would come back and tell me. They FINALLY let me have her around 7pm.. 6 and a half freakin hours after I had her.. and it was the best moment of my life. I just cried and kissed her and held her so close to me.
I was, and still am, in LOTS of pain. I am now home after 4 days in the hospital, and that alone was pretty much hell. I was on IVs for those 4 days, on the maternity floor, and the nurses had NO idea what they were doing with me (one even admitted to me that they NEVER have to do any of this "IV" stuff because they never have women with CF having babies!) .. they were clueless on how to do infusions, one injected air into the line and i felt it gurgling up my neck and almost fainted .. i can go on and on about how bad my hospital stay was, but I really dont even want to think about it anymore.
I'm still in pain, but I'm home and it's SO much better being here with Kenny & my new baby girl. She is absolutely PERFECT and we are just so head over heels inlove with her. She is healthy, happy and really is the best baby!! I'm going to post some pics - I hope this works!!!!
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I saw the post that Kristy started, updating everyone on the news! I wanted to come on here so bad while I was in the hospital but I didn't have any internet acess! So thanks Kristy for posting!!!!
I figured I'd start a new post with the pictures... lemme give you the 411 on the day of the c-section though.
We woke up and I felt like crap.. but I thought it was just nerves.. so I went to the bathroom and threw up and was having bad heartburn (had it bad the prior day too .. like SO bad I thought I was going to die) but didn't think too much of it. We got to the hospital and I was hooked up to the monitor that measured Brianna's heartbeat & her movements.. and the nurse showed me that I was actually having contractions! I looked at the sheet and the contractions were happening A LOT and were getting closer together, but then they became random at times. Murphy's Law, right? Go in for a c-section and I start contracting! We did an unltrasound and Brianna was still breech. I then wheeled to the O.R. and Kenny was with me the whole time - the spinal didn't hurt much, and after they were done putting it in they layed me down right away and my bottom half of my body went numb. Brianna was born within 15 mins and as I was laying there as they were finishing me up, we just heard her screaming cries and I was just crying the whole time... I wanted to see her SO BAD, but they only showed her to Kenny and I for 5 seconds and then whisked her away to test her sugars since I was on an insulin drip IV because of the CF diabetes. They brought me to recovery and told me i would see her within 2-3 hours. It was around 1:30pm.. and they kept coming in and telling me she was perfect, but they needed to test her sugars more. It was now 6pm and I was flipping out because I hadn't even touched her or seen her yet. It was CRAZY absurd. I was cursing and crying and just wanted to see my baby!!!!! Kenny kept running back and forth to the NICU to check on her (they had her in the NICU because of my diabetes) and they kept saying she was fine, so he would come back and tell me. They FINALLY let me have her around 7pm.. 6 and a half freakin hours after I had her.. and it was the best moment of my life. I just cried and kissed her and held her so close to me.
I was, and still am, in LOTS of pain. I am now home after 4 days in the hospital, and that alone was pretty much hell. I was on IVs for those 4 days, on the maternity floor, and the nurses had NO idea what they were doing with me (one even admitted to me that they NEVER have to do any of this "IV" stuff because they never have women with CF having babies!) .. they were clueless on how to do infusions, one injected air into the line and i felt it gurgling up my neck and almost fainted .. i can go on and on about how bad my hospital stay was, but I really dont even want to think about it anymore.
I'm still in pain, but I'm home and it's SO much better being here with Kenny & my new baby girl. She is absolutely PERFECT and we are just so head over heels inlove with her. She is healthy, happy and really is the best baby!! I'm going to post some pics - I hope this works!!!!
<img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b66/cmcdonald/DSCF1548.jpg">
<img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b66/cmcdonald/baby_brianna_017.jpg">
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<img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b66/cmcdonald/DaddyBrianna.jpg">
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