posted by Fallon on Sep 29
The most beautiful little baby boy in the world was born on Wednesday the 19th day of September 2007 at 12:42 pm. He was 8 lbs 4 ounces and 19 inches long, just one ounce bigger than my daughter. When I heard his first cries I felt tears bead in my eyes but all I could do was lay there strapped to the table with my mother next to me as they suctioned fluids out of his lungs and cleaned him up. I got a quick glimpse of him really.. and gave him 2 little kisses on his beautiful cheek before he and my mother left me to be sewed up.
I don’t remember falling asleep but a mask was put over my mouth and nose and then I heard voices and was waking up.. I am pretty sure this was done to keep me calm while they worked to stop my hemorrhaging which I did not know was happening until my mother told me later. It is one of the most common things to happen during a c section and die from since they rip the placenta away from the uterine wall when in a natural birth it is supposed to loosen and then become detached on it’s own. But anyways, I was in that operating room like twice the amount than I should have been.
Once I was through with recovery and finally put into my room I waited and waited to see my baby but didn’t get to hold him until 9 hours later because the nurse monitoring him thought she heard singing when he breathed (wheezing I guess) This happens a lot in baby’s born by c section because the fluid in their chest is not given the chance to be squeezed out. So I got to sit around in pain worrying and worrying while they ran a bunch of extra tests. But fortunately he left the hospital very healthy and is doing great.
One of the most insulting things to hear form people is when they say something like “well you had a c section at least you didn’t have to go through any pain” That would never even slip through their lips because the thought wouldn’t pass their brain if they felt the intense, sickening and excruciating pain caused from having a baby ripped through your abdomen. There are no words to describe my first attempt of standing up and the inability to use my stomach muscles. No matter how many times I have felt the c section (twice) the pain experienced never ceases to amaze me.
Both of my baby’s are well worth it all and I don’t regret a second of bringing them into the world.
posted by Fallon on Aug 25
I had an appointment august 22nd and everything is good.. except when I asked about the shot I need for being Rh negative. Nobody seemed to know why I didn’t get it sooner and so I did end up getting that but they didn’t do it in his office. I had to go to the hospital to get blood drawn to check for any antibodies and then on the 23rd I had to go back to get the shot and I waited 2 and a half hours!!! I can’t believe I had to wait that long.. When I got it with my daughter my doctor just gave it to me in her office.
All of the nurses were busy in the labor and delivery rooms.. so that’s why I had to wait that long. I still don’t know how the antibody test came back either because the nurse at the hospital said she didn’t know.. so I’m going to have to ask my doctor about that when I go back on Wednesday.
We also talked about my c section and he wants to plan it for sept. 18th, five days before my due date. I think I’m going to find out for sure when my c section will be at my next appointment also. I still don’t feel comfortable about the procedure but blahhhhh.
On Monday I am going to go look at some cars because the stick shift driving lessons aren’t going well with my dad. He blew us off twice last weekend, both days he said he was going to take us and then ended up having an excuse both times. He didn’t call and ask about this weekend either so I’m just not going to wait around and get my hopes up anymore.
posted by Fallon on Aug 18
So it seems that I haven’t written in a while. That would be because I’ve been pretty stressed out and busy lately. My due date is getting closer and closer so I’ve been trying to get things ready and cleaning.. and usually by the time I do have time to myself after my daughter has gone to sleep, I’m too tired to write.
Ok so I had an appointment August 8th. It went well I guess but I brought up the fact that I had previously had a c section and asked if it would be better for me to have one again this time. My doctor said he thought it would be because it would be safer for the baby in case any complications arose and especially since my baby looked a little on the big side. So I got this consent form I need to bring back to my next appointment. I haven’t been too happy thinking about the fact that I’m going to have another c section because I remember exactly how painful it was and it doesn’t even seem like birth. The thought of just laying there while I’m cut open… UGH.
Another thing that has been bothering me is that a few days after my appointment I realized that I hadn’t received my shot for being Rh - When I was pregnant with my daughter I got that around 28 weeks and now I’m pushing 35. So I definitely need to bring this up at my next appointment on Wednesday. It’s just too important for him to overlook and forget about, so I need to find out why I haven’t gotten it.
You are either rh negative or positive. If you are rh negative then if your blood happens to mix with your baby’s blood and he is rh positive your blood will treat him as if he were an infection and start to destroy his red blood cells. If the baby is negative just as you are then there is no problem, but once your body starts to make antibodies to rh positive blood they will be there forever and the shot wont be good anymore. The shot only prevents them from being made. I am afraid that maybe in one of my blood tests he seen that I already had the antibodies and that’s why I didn’t get the shot. If that’s the case then I wish he had told me, I just really wish I had thought about this sooner instead of just expecting him to take care of everything.
The thought of what my own blood can do to my baby is so awful.. this has me more stressed out than the c section. I hope the baby has my blood type, he seems pretty active most of the time. So I think after my next appointment I will be going weekly.. I’ll write about it when I go on the 22nd.
My daughter has a tiny cold that started about 2 days ago. A runny nose and cough that I’m sure will be better very soon. I’ve been putting the humidifier in her room when she sleeps at night plus I put this vicks like stuff for babies on her chest.
posted by Fallon on Jul 28
So I went for my checkup on the 25th and my doctor told me that my 3 hour glucose test came back normal. Well this is good news but I always think that doctors are lying anyways, but lets hope he’s not. So my next appointment is 2 weeks from my last. I have to start going every 2 weeks since I’m so close, so my next will be august 8th. He did all of the other regular things such as checking my weight, blood pressure, urine, baby’s heart etc.. He hasn’t told me anything bad.
I also recently went to re fill my prenatal vitamin prescription and the pharmacy I was going to before is not there anymore.. so I went to the new location where my info was transferred and they didn’t have the exact vitamins that I was taking before. It is a different brand and now that I am taking them I have this weird vitamin-like taste/smell in my sinuses. It’s annoying but I’m sure within another week once my body is used to them it will go away. When I first started taking the other ones the same thing happened. I guess this brand is a bit different than the other one I was taking, I don’t like not having the same brand but I can’t do much. This brand is neonatal plus and the other was prenatal plus.
I also went and finished getting some important things I need for the baby before I bring him home. We went to target first and got some diapers and wipes, also some receiving blankets and a few outfits for my daughter. I love looking at the clearances and sales they have as I walk down the aisles. I also got a double stroller and infant car seat set so that both the kids can be in the same stroller, and the infant seat can also go in the stroller.. I really, really love it. The whole thing is very convenient and nice.
posted by Fallon on Jul 12
So I went for the 3 hour glucose test.. I had to fast the night before. I was pretty hungry when I woke up in the morning and I woke up a little later than I had planned also because I felt so tired. I got to the lab around 9:20 am and I am glad I got there then because their cut off for the 3 hour glucose test is 9:30 so the patient’s testing wont interfere with their lunch. They took my blood right when I got there and then gave me this sick lime sugary drink that I had to finish within 5 minutes. It didn’t take me even close to 5 minutes even though it was sick haha. So then they told me I’d be getting my blood drawn at 10:23, 11:23 and 12:23 and that I couldn’t leave.. so I had to sit in the waiting room with my daughter and fiance. Yikes was that a challenge. My daughter had a lot of energy and I had to keep coming up with things to keep her occupied for the first hour. I let her draw and played with some paper, gave her a snack, tried making shapes with pieces of napkin. haha I was getting real creative for a while. The first hour was finally up and they took my blood. After the first hour my daughter really wanted out of her stroller, so we let her walk around the waiting room a bit and decided to go in the hallway.. even though I wasn’t supposed to leave I didn’t think that would really hurt anything since I pretty much tell the people at the desk when it’s time for my blood to be taken anyways(as long as I don’t do anything too physical because that burns up the sugar). We also went downstairs and got her some trail mix and tommy a drink (my fiance) Ok so I got my blood taken a second time and then we went for a walk outside and after ANOTHER hour I went to get the last sample drawn…but this time it wasn’t so easy. The first 3 times they took blood they found my veins fine and had no problems, but suddenly my veins didn’t wanna drain anymore. They poked both of my arms like two times each and finally resorted to drawing it from my wrist. I wish they would’ve done that in the first place instead of leaving a major bruise on one of my arms! It seems like the nurses get a little careless sometimes… so anyways, I hope I never have to do that test again, 3 hours seems a bit insane to me. I’m glad it’s over with and hopefully the results come back alright. I guess how they analyze them is they test all 3 samples and they should all range between certain numbers to be good and if 2 or more aren’t within the range and they are too high then they consider that gestational diabetes. If anything I think I may have a mild case according to my glucose test I already took.. and might go away after the pregnancy. So I didn’t go shopping afterwards, I just wanted to get home and wash the clinic off of me and my daughter. We put together a cute little shelf for my daughter tonight though and we’re gonna decide where to put it later on. She really got the idea of it though! She was putting her toys in all of the little cubby holes, it was so cute! Her mouth still hurts her slightly, but her appetite is way better. Poor baby!
posted by Fallon on Jul 10
So I’ve been leaving my phone on vibrate and when I checked my phone last night I had a message left from my clinic.. they said that I need to call them back and it was already way too late to do that when I checked my phone. Well getting that call only made me think one thing.. that something had to be wrong! So I had to wait nervously all night so that I could call them back this morning.
I called them back around 9:30 am and was on hold for a almost 10 minutes while they tried to find out who called me. They finally did and the nurse told me they got my glucose tolerance test back and that mine came back a little high. Normal is 130 and mine is 140 so now I need to go for further testing to check for diabetes. This is obviously not good news, it’s juuussst what I needed to hear. Home stress doesn’t really make it any easier to deal with either but there isn’t much I can do.
So I am fasting right now so I can go early in the morning to get the test done. It’s going to be kind of long because they want to draw my blood once every hour for 3 hours.. So I can either sit around there and wait the whole time.. or leave and be back on time for them to take the blood each time. Blah long day it’s gonna be. Maybe I can go shopping afterwards to take my mind off of things, that usually helps.
The same day I missed the call, I had been at IKEA. We got some lovely new additions for our home. IKEA usually has good quality for a good price. We got a new dresser for our new baby and a few other tiny little things for him..like a light, we got a table that comes with two chairs for my daughter and the baby.. I can just imagine them sitting at it together someday, how cute! My fiance got himself a new chair for his desk and handed down his old one to me, this one is much better than a kitchen chair! We got a few other things too.. we’re still adding to our home since we haven’t lived here very long. It can be pretty fun sometimes!
My daughter is also feeling better and I am sooo happy for that!
posted by Fallon on Jun 29
On the 27th of June I went for my routine monthly checkup. On sunday i will be 28 weeks. This pregnancy has gone by really fast and my approaching due date makes me have many different feelings. Ones of happiness, anxiousness and even disbelief. Even though I’ve gone through this before, it still amazes me. I’m sure my 2 year old daughter is going to be very happy when i bring home her brother for the first time in September!
So anyways, at my appointment they did all the usual checks on my weight, blood pressure, urine sample and then listening to the babies heartbeat. From what they’ve told me everything is going good so far. At this appointment it was also time for them to do the mandatory glucose tolerance test. I got to drink this nasty orange liquid and then wait around for an hour to go by so they could then take some blood. Compared to my last pregnancy I have not gained very much weight at all! Only around 10 pounds so far, I think i gained enough weight last time for both pregnancies! Well my next appointment is July 25th, so I’ll probably be writing about that.
I took my daughter to the park for a short time when we were all through, she loves going to the park, but it’s almost impossible to get her back into the car when we’re ready to go! I’m hoping to go to the beach this weekend and I’m also looking forward to the 4th of July, my daughter is going to love looking at the fireworks!! I want to go to a little show as well as buying a few fireworks of our own to light. Happy 4th of July!
