Baby M.s Birth

Here is an account of Baby M's birth. It's quite horrific if you ask me. I think I truly nearly died. I decided to put it here since things on facebook arbitrarily go missing. I had to edit some things though. About the last whole paragraph has been deleted because you never can be too careful.

..M. was about 5-6 days old. and I was so very tired and hungry and cranky when I wrote this.


I went into labor Thursday about at 11:30 am, right before I picked I. up from school. I did some acupressure, which I think set it off, because it was nearly an immediate reaction. I contracted for 14 hours. Anyway. We got to the hospital about at 11:30 PM, they monitored me for an hour, because I was only dilated at a 2. When my doc showed up an hour later, (he just happened to be there anyway, to help some other colleague with a tubal ligation) he checked me and I was at 4. My water broke, which I never felt before and I gushed for about 5 minutes. Here's where it gets scary.
Babys hand popped out. Followed by an umbilical chord. They did a sonogram, and in less than a day, he went breach. My hubby said there was a contraction that pushed him up, instead of down and out,I had my last apt on Wed, and he was head down, so I was pretty much scared to death. I cried, the nurse jumped on top of me and shoved her hand inside to keep his head from pressing the chord, which prolapsed, and they rushed me to the O.R. They ran to get my doc and he hustled in. there was no time for a shave, so he anesthesiologist gave me a spinal (no time for an epidural here) and my legs went really shaky for about 30 seconds and then really warm. I still wanted to cry. "Do your legs feel warm?" the anesthesiologist asked over and over until I said "yeah, that feels kinda good". "Okay, cut now"
It only took about 30 seconds. They told me I had to relax, but when you're being cut open from side to side, and your body is in trauma, what else is there to do? I closed my eyes for the whole thing. They cut, his hand popped out of the incision and so the doc had to call for extra "specialty" help as he swept my uterus for the head. This caused a tear in my uterus, on both sides of the incision and the need for the specialist, who was an OB Surgeon. It only took 16 minutes from the nurse jumping on me to baby coming out, then they sewed for 2 hours. my insides feel so discombobulated. That's not something I was looking forward to in any situation anyhow. So I have a horizontal scar now to go along with my vertical stretch-marks. It's a good thing I wear a one-piece bathing suit, huh.
Anyway the specialist aided in sutures, because of the tearing, there was a good chance of vein ruptures, and I would have had to have a full hysterectomy. Thankfully, It wasn't THAT bad. I only lost half of my blood volume.
I shouldn't remember so much detail, especially for being in shock, but hey. This is it. I'm glad that he's safe, and healthy, and I'm going to be okay. I can go to the bathroom my myself, and walking is a great chore. But it all could be so much worse. So much worse. I'm glad it's not. The girls can't wait to see baby brother:
M.Sorensen
Friday, October 2, 2009, 1:39 am
Utah Valley Regional Medical Center

We welcome him with lots of hugs and kisses! and a flat wallet.
Did you know they won't let children under 14 into the hospital to visit patients? My girls are so sad....
I think I may have a bit of ppd already. I have never been good at this nursing thing, and seriously, Each side is now as big a a regulation-sized football. I'm not joking. I hurt all over, have a headache, fronts ache and tummy aches. I'm cold, tired and hungry,

So, there you have it. I lost 1/2 of my blood, had to have 2 units in an IV during recovery and lots of other kinds of fluids. My feet were 3 times the size they normally were and I still get dizzy. The feet have recovered, but the dizzy-ness will go away in about a month, when my red blood cell count has returned to closer to normal. The nursing thing now is so much better than my girls ever were. I don't know if it's a gender thing...j/k...but really, I am having much better luck this time around than any time before.
I thank the Lord that I came home with my baby and that we are all adjusting to the new things...even L., whom I thought would take it harder. (She's even potty-training right now to make things more interesting).