Our Delivery Story (4)

Somewhere in between all this mess, Nathaniel was taken by the nurse practioner and had his tongue tie problem fixed, they cut the little string under his tongue cause it was stuck and it would be best to do it for breastfeeding and talking purposes. He didn't cry and did great.

After I almost passed out, the nurses told my doctor that I was changing color and very weak, once I hit the bed I felt wasted, like I had the life sucked out of me. That is when they told me I would need the blood transfusion ASAP, so I agreed and signed away. Before the big blood transfusion I was waiting for the kids to show up with the in laws, they never came so the nurse gives me benadryl right before she starts the transfusion and that made me super loopy, I was slowly falling into a deep sleep and thats when the kids came in, poor things, I wish they didn't see me like this. I can remember some things while I was slowly drifting away, (I really think this is what dying feels like), my in laws were just staring at me and OUT I went. The benadryl was used to avoid any reactions to the blood. So I wake up who knows how long later and the room is empty and dark. I kept looking around and see a bag of blood connected to me, then I hear a little noise and realize my mother in law was sitting by my side the whole time, she was holding Nathaniel while I was knocked out and everyone else was in the cafeteria. The nurse came and put a whole new bag of blood to connect me to. This is when I had horrible pain in my hand, it was a nasty burning pain that was KILLING ME, so I called the nurse right back and wanted to rip the IV out of me, she came right away and tried to get the blood going but it wasn't budging and was burning me so bad. She decided to pull my IV out for me and had to start a new one (this was the 3rd one to go bad on me by now). She said I was probably having pain the whole time I was asleep but obviously didn't feel it. I was already feeling a lot better and had a lot more color in my face, I was glad I got the transfusion.

The rest of this day was spent resting and loving on our boy, I took lots of pics of him from my bed, here's one...LOL