Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Repeat C Section

So Ryan Arthur Davies was born April 13 2011 at 1:10pm. 9 pounds 12 ounces. This was a scheduled c section since my first was a c section the doctors gave me an option of a repeat or try for a VBAC. I decided that I would go with the c section.
So wednesday morning I have to get up at 5am and call labor and delivery and see what time to come in that day. They tell me to come in at 10:30am and was scheduled for 1pm. Why is it when you can't eat that is when you are the most hungry. So I hadn't eaten since the night before and I was starving and nervous of what this delivery was going to be like. With Jordan my first the c section was uncomfortable especially when it came to the part where they start to put you back together. But over all I was thought I guess that wasn't too bad. My anesthesiologist and surgeon after telling them of my story of singing "OKLAHOMA" when being wheeled to the recovery room said I must have been given some good drugs because with this c section I wanted to DIE. Dont get me wrong, my anesthesiologist was giving me medicine the whole entire time but from what I've heard and now EXPERIENCED they are WAYYYY worse than the first.
Lets start from the beginning. He was inverted (laying across my stomach) so they had to turn him first. This is the weirdest feeling and almost a BIT painful. I can remember hearing him cry and getting a bit choked up and then they started the process of putting me back together. Tyson took a few pictures from the chair he was sitting at by me and I can't remember if the pain really started to kick in at that point but I remember telling Tyson before hand to follow the baby to the nursery to watch them clean him up and I'd see him soon. Thats what happened with Jordan except it was my mom that went with the baby. I was fine that time so I figured it would be the same this time. I told tyson to stay with me. I had pain that took my breath away but I knew obviously I had to breath through it and it took everything in me to do so. I could breath in but it was painful breathing out. I was puttering my breath out. I felt like I was the girl on exorcist cause my arms were held down and I just heaved up my shoulders in pain. I remember starting to cry because of the pain but all I got out was a couple tears because the balling was not going to come because of how hard it was to breath through the pain. They tried showing me pictures of the baby and held him up so I could see him before taking him away, and I was like uh huh nice. But could have cared less at that moment. I needed to get through this first and then I could enjoy baby later. I finally got out after a few attempts to tyson and the anesthesiologist "how much longer" and they told me 20 minutes. I could see the light at the end of the tunnel. So finally it was over. C sections aren't as easy as people think. Either way when you have birth its not a pleasant experience. But the outcome is well worth it. SO they wheel me out of OR and we stop to see the baby and they first tell me his weight and I could not believe that I had given birth to a baby almost 10 pounds. He did not look and still doesnt look like a big baby.
Recovery room was boring. At this hospital they didnt allow anyone to come back and be with you so Tyson was with the baby until I got to the room. It took about 2 hours for my right leg to come to the point where I could lift it and the whole time I kept thinking come on I want to get to the room and talk to tyson and talk about our big baby and hear what family was saying and see my other "baby" jordan and see what he thought of his lil brother. So when I got to the room Tyson left to get my mom and jordan so I was alone again but this time with the baby for a lil less than half an hour and they were finally there in the room. Jordan loved holding his brother which was a RELIEF! But then a nurse came in and said that we needed to quiet down, and I was getting a reaction to the morphine of extreme itchiness everywhere and they had these pumps on my legs that were starting to feel painful because of my MS so I had to beg the nurse to take them off for a bit and Jordan was a bit overwhelming to me at that moment so they left :(
So we had a few nurses that we loved and a few that annoyed us to death. The exorcist moments I was having in the OR really tweeked my right shoulder kind of like when you play softball or baseball but its been awhile and you throw around the ball way to much. Well it hurt a lot and one nurse was shocked that it still hurt the next day and with heating pads and I wanted to slap her. Believe me lady I didnt want it to hurt either but it did and I wasn't lying it REALLY hurt. At points it hurt worse than my incision haha never a dull moment around this one :)
This time the baby got circumcised at the hospital which was great and everything went well that we got to leave friday morning.I was so glad to be away from the ridiculous nurses and control my pain meds myself. Except I didnt realize how tweeked my shoulder was until bedtime that night and I couldnt sleep in my bed. I had to sleep on the couch in the corner of our sectional propped up. I was looking forward to sleeping in my own bed without the baby bump but I slept on the couch for the next 3 or 4 nights and tried not using my arm except while nursing Ryan. Tyson was a trooper and he slept downstairs with me too.
So this delivery was much more exciting than my first but he looks just like Jordan did when he was born. And since we already had boy clothes it doesnt help that he wears all the same stuff Jordan did so I see him as Jordan. Now when I have to change Jordans diaper he seems like a 5 year old than a kid almost 2 years old. It breaks my heart seeing him grow up but I love the lil guy he is becoming. He wants to hold baby all the time and gives him kisses a lot and gets me wipes and diapers for baby most of the time. Its weird to go from 3 to4 person family. When my mom leaves to go back to san diego I dont know what I'll do. I went from having a baby (my first) 4 weeks old to school then being home with him for a month when he was 1 to getting a full time job and missing out on how to take care of a toddler to being the caretaker for an almost 2 year old and a newborn. But I am excited at the same time to be able to spend more time with my babies.
We are enjoying our new addition to the family and are trying to adjust to our new reality. Now if it will just be July already we'd be happier.

1 comments:

Trent & Emily Davies said...

I can't imagine doing a c-section. Recovery is bad enough without your stomach being ripped open! But you are right...it is all worth it once you see that new little baby!!

 

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