Our Delivery Story (3)

Since the bleeding wouldn't stop they said I'd have to go back into surgery and have a D&C. My blood level was at 6 and dropping every hour so I had to have it done fast. At this time the kids had come to meet the baby so I got to see them see their brother for the first time before they took me. The kids were so excited and Audrey looked amazed and could not believe it was a real baby. Bubbs just kept smiling, he was def. happy. Before you know it I'm being wheeled back into the same OR (operating room)where I just gave birth and the last I remember, people were talking all around me.

When I woke up I had a tube down my throat and felt some pain, that's when the nurse told me she was going to give me Demerol soon. Once that medicine went in I felt great all over again. They told me that I had a balloon filled with water in my uterus that would help my uteurs contract and it would come out in a day or two. I was wheeled back into my room where Naty and the baby were waiting for me. The kids were gone already because it was late and thats when the nurse told me that my son was bigger than we all thought. She explained to us that the OR scale was off by almost one pound and they re-weighed him about 2 hours after birth and he weighed 8 lbs. 9 oz. So I'm pretty sure he weighed a little more than that at birth but I'll stick with 8 lbs. 9 oz. They notified other parents that had their babies in that same OR and re-weighed them, lol.

Now, I was able to rest and enjoy my baby except he would not stop crying the whole first night. At that time I was BF and pretty sure he was hungry but I did not want to give him a bottle so he was nursing every hour and just crying most of the time.

DAY 2
I was constantly sleeping with the baby at this point cause I was exhausted from both surgeries and him not sleeping but he finally calmed down at this point and was letting us have a break. Naty and I took turns holding him and at this point Naty had changed all his diapers, I still hadn't changed one. Naty was amazing and would jump at any sound he'd make. This day went pretty smooth till the nurse said she wanted me to try getting up when I was ready. I told her I was ready cause I was determined to stand up, but at the same time my blood was still low and they weren't sure if I should get up yet but I told them I wanted to. So with lots of pain and struggling I got to sit at the edge of the bed, I waited a little and stood straight up. The nurse was all in my face asking me if I felt ok, I kept saying yes and starting walking to the bathroom to clean up. I looked at myself in the mirror and I was GREEN! I mean a weird color and the nurse kept asking if I felt dizzy, so I walk out of the room and everything started spinning so they made me go back to my room and lay down...that felt awful......



TO BE CONTINUED...

Our Delivery Story (2)

**Us in the recovery room**

When the doctor's began stitching me back up together the nurses kept calling Naty to go see his son but he didn't want to leave my side, lol so I had to yell at him and say, "Naty! go with the baby, I'm ok!" and that's when he got up and started taking pictures of the baby. After they were done they wheeled me over to recovery where they monitored me and I got to love on my little Nathaniel. Recovery is usually an hour BUT since I had a big surgery (I didn't know what they meant by that till waaaaaaaaaay later) they wanted to monitor me more so I got out of there in about 2 hours. I felt bad for Naty cause he hadn't ate (I hadn't either) and he said he wanted to suffer like I was and wasn't going to eat till I can, LOL! That's when I told him to LEAVE and get something NOW.

So I finally get wheeled into my room and I'm surrounded by nurses that swear they're going to be able to move me into my bed, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!!!!!!! I said, don't bother I'll move myself so I scooted my big self over with little effort and they were all shocked and could not believe I had so much mobility. One nurse even said, "Wow! ur ready for another c-section" and that's when I slapped her. JK! But anyway, Nate and I just waited for Naty to come back and he was there in a flash, I even asked him if he ate cause it was so fast.

My nurse came in and she was amazing! soooooo nice and caring. She told us that she would take Nate his first bath in our room so we got our cameras ready and here's a pic.




So everything was fine for a while till I started to feel something pour out of me....I told Naty that I felt like I was giving birth to something and he called the nurse. She came and said everything was fine and I'm passing the blood and clots that I should be, but then I noticed she kept coming in frequently and changing me and not saying a word, I knew something was wrong but she wouldn't say. I was hurting and just pooling in my own blood. I could feel myself get weaker and weaker and that's when the doctor came in and I heard her telling him that I'm bleeding excessively while she showed him all my monster hospital pads in the bathroom. I can hear him talking and saying I'll need to go back in surgery if he can't stop it with medication, that scared the crap out of me. My nurse came back in and said, "Marlene your bleeding is really bad and we've gotta try to stop it so we're gonna connect you to pitocin and give you an injection through your IV to try to stop it." So they get me all set up and now I'm contracting on top of everything else, it was horrible. A little later on the doctor (on-call, not mine) came in to check on me again and decided to manually remove these clots from me (use ur imagination) while he did this he was pushing on my stomach really hard, mind you I just had a c-section and this man is doing push-ups on my stomach. My nurse was amazing and held my hand, when she did that I tried to focus on something else while he did this and he said everything that he tried wasn't going to work and that I would need more surgery....

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Our Delivery Story

**I get in deep detail here, not to bore you BUT to remember these days in the future and to have this to look back on.**

First of all, this might take me a while to write because a lot went on during those four days in the hospital. Despite it ALL I'm still very thankful and blessed to have had an experience where God gave me the ability to have another child. I would do it all over again.

The two days before the big day we were in East LA while Naty helped his dad prepare one of their rental properties for new renters. I was exhausted sitting there and was officially DONE and OVER IT. We left the kids with my in laws and I was so afraid that I would never see them again. At that point I was starting to get scared and was thinking maybe I'm not ready, LOL! I begged Naty to leave that Sunday cause I wanted to have our final meal, lol but he ended up there late and we ended up at Olive Garden right before they closed. I stuffed myself with fettuccine alfredo before a major surgery, Gross! It was all worth it though ;-)

It all started at 7am that Monday, August 3rd I woke up to Naty detailing my car and just getting things done before our 9am arrival. I quickly cleaned up some of the mess we had laying around the house and dyed my hair. We started running late and got to the hospital at 9:10AM. We were greeted by this perky man that was trying to crack jokes with us while we waited for the nurse to come get us. Then finally a nurse came and just started getting down to business, she was putting a hair net on me, slapped the wristband on me, took me to my room and said get naked, we're having a baby.

The nurse tried to get an IV in me but was unsuccessful and it hurt! she then got another lady to do another one and that one wasn't painful at all. They started the antibiotics and made me drink that nasty buffer stuff to settle the acid in my stomach. While we waited, Naty and I just chatted and talked about how we could NOT believe that the day had finally come. That's when the nurse came in and said we were on schedule and almost ready to go in. I honestly don't remember the time but when I got to the OR, people were chatting about their weekend and listening to music while they prepared everything. Then a young guy comes up to me and says he'll be puncturing my spine! WTH!!! uuuhhhhhh......YOU? he was so nice (and HOT) that I went with the flow, well....that nice and HOT guy pricked my spine 3 times with numbing medicine and about 5 times with the spinal needle and by that time I wanted the OLD man touching me! So the old real doctor came shoved it in and in one shot it was in. The good thing is that the needles didn't hurt that bad but it was uncomfortable arching my back with a big belly in front of me. Then thats when I felt the warmness hit my feet, aaaaahhh soothing, it felt odd and good at the same time. Before you know it Naty walked and was freaked out, he kept asking me if I was ok cause I felt like barfing but they gave me something through my IV to take that feeling away, which worked instantly. I just laid there while the doctor tugged, pulled, cut, and again, over and over till it became an hour and longer....I was just waiting to see my baby that I lost track of time and started worrying about the medication. I asked them if it would wear off while being open on the operating table, they said if it did they would put me under. OMG! I got scared and prayed they'd hurry up. Meanwhile, I hear my doctor call for another doctor for a second opinion, huh?? so the doctor comes in and all I remember hearing my doctor say is, "is this her uterus or bladder?", that just freaked me out, I guess I had so much scar tissue that it made it impossible for them to distinguish what was what.

Then I hear the doctor announce that he's making the incision to my uterus at such and such time and then I hear the most wonderful sound....WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH, little Nate screaming his head off. I immediately fell in love and it reminded me of Audrey, she cried and cried for hours after being born. And to top it off, he looked exactly like Audrey. All the nurses and doctors where saying how big and cute he was then they weighed him and were shocked to see 7lbs 14oz., they weren't convinced.

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Pre-Op Appt. 7/31

Had my last NST and pre-op appt. today with Dr. Tsai. He explained everything that will be going on and told me how to prepare and get ready for the big day on Monday!

He said since it will be my 3rd c-section that it can take up to an hour and a half to work on me from beginning to end or as easy as a 1/2 hour. It just depends on the damage I've got going on in there. I warned him once again about my uterus being stuck to my stomach wall and he said he'll detach it and take out any easily accessible scar tissue that he can take out cause it's not good to mess with thick and blood circulating scar tissue cause it can cause me to bleed alot and we don't want that. I agreed and told him to please do what he can.

So here's the run down of what going to happen.

NO eating past 11:30pm on sunday night.
NO jewlery allowed, only wedding ring.
I have to show up at 9am at the L&D.
They will start an IV with antibiotics to lessen my chance of infection during surgery.
At 11am the surgery will start.
Should take about 45mins to an hour for ME but can take up to an hour and a half.
I'll be in recovery for an hour right after.

I was also given my staple removal date (08/10/09) and my 6 week check up (9/16/09) for my check up and IUD insertion. Which is crazy! I can't think that far ahead right now.

They also took lots of blood today and I felt like crap afterwards. I'm glad I had Naty's parents to take me cause I'm not sure how I would have made it back home. It's so weird that the day is near and it still doesn't feel real to me. Just unreal. Anyway, this pain isn't unreal so I better go take some tylenol, these contractions are really bugging me, I hate that my body doesn't know that it's not coming out that way! There's NO NEED to prepare me!