It is amazing how your life changes when you have a
child. This blog helped me get through
my pregnancy with Landon. There were so
many emotions flowing when we had him and still today the flood in at times you
least expect it. I have never sat down and wrote about the day he was
born. So I sit her just after
celebrating his 1st birthday (yes he is 1!) reflecting on his first
year.
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| 4-5-12 6lbs 13oz 20.5in 5:22pm |
Now, rewind to April 5, 2012. Eric and I were headed up to Toledo to see
our MFM doctor for the last time. See we
had planned a c-section with our regular OB in Defiance on April 10. At this time in the pregnancy we were seeing
both doctors once a week and we were getting ultrasounds in Toledo once a
week. With our MFM doctor we received
an ultrasound where he does a complete biophysical of Landon (it measures his heart,
legs, arms, head, belly, and umbilical cord flow) as well as a nonstress test.
On that particular day we received the ultrasound
first. The tech came into the room and
took a bunch of pictures and went on her way.
Then a few minutes later the head tech came in and said she needed to
take a couple more pictures and she would be done. Well this wasn’t unusual for us as she has
come in to our room in the past to double check or to take different angles of
something. Our doctor seemed to be
particular and that was fine by us. So
she was in there for what seemed to be 30 seconds and left.
Then the nurse came into our room and said she was ready for
our non stress test. We went into
another room and I was hooked up to the monitor. I would be hooked up for 20 minutes and in
order for us to go home Landon needed to have two heart accelerations within 20
minutes. The only way this happens is
when he moves around. Well I think he
was taking a nap. The nurse came back in
to check on us and “tried” waking him up.
This usually consisted of her pushing on my belly and yelling at my
stomach “WAKEY, WAKEY, BABY” Landon
moved around a little and then seemed to settle back into a good spot. She then asked me if I wanted her to use the
“baby buzzer” If I haven’t told you
about the baby buzzer it is AWFUL. It is
this little buzzer they put next to your stomach and buzz in order to wake the
baby and let me tell you it scares the crap out of him. The first time we had that done I thought we
was going to come right out of my stomach.
She proceeded to tell me that she didn’t have to use the “baby buzzer”
and that she could just let me stay on for another 30 minutes. So I opted for the 30 minutes.
When she left I grabbed a snack and some juice since this
usually wakes him up. She came back in
to check on us and said that everything looked good and she was going to show
the doctor the test and she would be back with us. We explained to her that this would be our
last time here since we had a scheduled c-section in 5 days. She was very happy for us and left the room
and said she would be back to send us off.
Then about 3 minutes later a knock on the door and then
entered the doctor, a nurse, and some lady I have never seen before. I instantly started to panic. At this time we knew that when we would see
the doctor that meant something was wrong.
He then said “I told you that I would get this baby out alive and I have
noticed a change on the ultrasound and you are going to go up to the delivery
floor and have a c-section now.”
WHAT?!? NOW?!? I didn’t know what to do or say or
think. Neither Eric nor I asked what he
saw on the ultrasound and he had mentioned the umbilical cord flow was not
where it should be. Umbilical Cord…not
again…
He then introduced us to the lady that I have never
seen. He explained that she was going to
take us to her office so we could call whoever we needed to call and to fill
out some paper work. We had called all
of our family and texted some of our friends.
They were all on their way up to Toledo and Eric and I were on our way
to the delivery floor. When we arrived
to the delivery floor, the surgeon was there with a team of students…yes it is
a teaching hospital. We met the surgeon
and he told us that he would see us in a little bit. WHAT?!?
We checked in and the nurses acted like it was a normal routine, which I
am sure it was probably routine for them, but not for us. At this point I was still holding strong and
then the nurse took us to our room and asked us if we had gotten an Easter
basket for a little one…then I lost it.
Yeah a question like that broke me…I started crying because we had not
bought him an Easter basket because he was not suppose to be here until after
Easter. Funny how the littlest thing and
break you.
She got us settled into our room and had me change into a
gown and strapped me up to the monitor to listen to Landon. We sat there and she asked us some
questions. Once she learned that I had a
snack not too long ago she left and went to talk to the doctor. She had came back and said we were going to
have to wait since I had something to eat.
They told us they were going to continue to monitor Landon and I until
about 5:00 and then we were going to go back.
They did not want anything to happen to me if I needed to be put
completely under so that is why we had to wait.
So we had to wait and wait. This
gave our families time to get up to the hospital.
Those couple of hours seemed like FOREVER, I was then taken
back to the operating room around 4:30 and Eric joined me. The whole c-section is for another blog…but
long story short he was born with a true knot in his umbilical cord. After I was cleaned up the surgeon came up to
me and said “it was a good thing you got a c-section.” We were truly blessed. When we decided to have another child they
told us the odds of us having another baby with an umbilical cord issue was
very slim…well it happened again, but this time thankfully for all of the
monitoring he was delivered safely. God
is GOOD!
