SHES HERE!!
This past week has been QUITE a whirlwind.
Friday August 24th I was scheduled for a regular doctors appointment at 2:00. I got there on time and got pulled into the room at about 2:15ish the SSgt there is chatting up with me making small talk about all the pregnant people LOL
He takes me blood pressure and it was super high!
He takes it again and its even higher.
One more time and its still super high.
He looked at me said this is not good your blood pressure is being crazy. Which if you guys remember a few post back about my ER visit BC of my blood pressure.
My numbers at the doc. I asked to take a picture lol
I sat in the room for about 45 minutes and my doctor came in and had a look on her face.
I said bad day huh? thinking she had a crazy day
she said I have to admit you!
I panicked and said your inducing me?! She said no just admitting you for 24 hours for monitoring since your blood pressure is so high. She said I had to go over to the hospital right away. Luckily for me I had packed my hospital bag just to be safe!
So I'm getting a little scared I text Sam over and over and don't hear anything from him so I had to call the squadron phone. How embarrassing! I called and a young kid answered and I was like uhm.. uh.. is Senior Airman McCanna there??... and the kid was like uhhhhh........ then there was an awkward silence lol i was like this is his wife and its an emergency!
Sam got on the phone and I was like they are admitting me for 24 hours my blood pressure is really high and I have to go to the hospital. Sam was like WOW.. oh wow ok..wow uhm let me see if I can leave ok wow
it was cute lol
I get over to the hospital and they put me in a small room and hook me up to the blood pressure cuff and start taking my pressures. They all come back pretty normal. My nurse if says they continue to stay down I don't have to stay 24 hours and she will prob have me home by 7!
But first my labs have to come back normal.
Labs include urine and blood and an AFI (ultrasound to make sure fluid level is good)
My urine came back with high protein in it. Which is normal for people with high blood pressure. Its called Pre-eclampsia and I developed it severely in late pregnancy I guess.
I cant really remember how my blood work came back
An AFI normal result (from what I'm told) is 12-24 fluid measurement.
They said anything below 5 is emergency and they take baby right away usually by c section.
I got an AFI usually every Tuesday and my numbers have been consistently around 8 or 9 always.
They said that is borderline but for time being it was ok.
They came in to do my ultrasound and the resident was having trouble finding the pockets.
She got another doctor, Dr. Elnicky.
Dr. Elnicky is a Lt. Col. in the air force and knows her stuff! She is so sweet and kind and talks just above a whisper.
She came in and measured my fluid and her results were a 6.
That freaked me out!
That is so low and she could only find 3 pockets of fluid when there is supposed to be 4!
She told me she wanted to check my cervix to see how far dilated I was. HOLY COW did that hurt! It was SO painful I wanted to crawl up the bed backwards from her it hurt so bad. I may have also almost said a cussword too lol but to my credit I didn't!
I was only dilated a measly centimeter!! 50% effaced and soft.
She wanted to bring the "head honcho" in to verify the AFI and make sure she was right.
The head honcho is Dr. Robacker and let me tell you about this guy lol he was absolutely hilarious! He was an older guy and you can tell he knows what he is doing and has prob delivered thousands of babies. He would say the most off the wall things lol. He kept calling Lilly a He and named "him" Alfonzo I kept telling him that she was a girl and he said "I'm sorry Alfonzonette" and he still did it every time lol.
anyways he was great to say the least. He came in and did the test again and he got the same result as Dr. Elnicky.
He sat down and got very serious with me and said that they want to take Lilly starting tonight that at this point she is better outside of my body than in. He said he wants to consult with some other people and they will be back but most likely "he will get his way BC he always does" LOL
Sam being antsy waiting to hear back about whats going on.
Well a few minutes later Dr. Elnicky comes in by herself and said that everyone is in agreeance and they are going to induce me tonight, and Lilly will have her birthday Saturday or Sunday.
It was so exciting and like YAY I get to meet my baby but at the same time I got reallllly scared.
They tell me they are going to start me on a pill called cytotec and she said she has to tell me before she starts that there is a 3% chance that my uterus could rupture bc the contractions are so severe with the pill!
lol GREAT!
So they get me a real labor and delivery room thank goodness! The room I was in to begin with was a "extra" labor room and that thing was freaking tiny. I get to my new room and its nice and big! I get to meet my nurse Mindy (who I really came to love!) I get an more blood drawn and an IV thank goodness she knew what she was doing bc the last experience i had with an IV at that hospital was horrific lol
They tell me they are going to put me on magnesium for my blood pressure. I have heard the most horrific things about magnesium. Everyone told me that it makes you feel like you are black out drunk. They told me I wasnt allowed to walk while on it. I got it in and luckily the only major side effect I had from it was heat but I was a little loopy.
I asked if I was allowed to eat bc I hadn't ate since about 11am that morning it was now about 8 and thankfully she said yes!
We got Margaritas Mexican food
Carne Asada for me!
After that we tried to get some rest
Lilly wasnt having it
She WOULD NOT for anything stay on the monitor. She would move off of it or I would have to readjust my position bc i couldn't sleep or I had to go potty. The poor nurse has to keep coming in and trying to find her and she was in a different spot what seemed like every time. I got MAYBE one hour of sleep.
Then there was shift change and they checked me at shift change too. I also forgot to mention I had in the mean time received another dose of the cytotec. They check me and I am 3cm dilated WHOO HOO
They leave me be as much as they can.
Dr Robacker comes in and says I have two choices.
I can
1. Start pitocin, let things progress naturally. If they dont progress in a normal safe time frame for Lilly than I will most likely get C section
2. Be aggressive. They will start pitocin HIGH, break my water if my body doesn't respond to it than c section.
He said I had a 50% chance of getting a c section..which STINKS
I tell him I want to the the natural way he says ok, but remember you're allowed to change your mind.
After they leave I go to the bathroom and as soon as I sit down there is a huge gush of water. I tell the nurse i think that my water broke. They come in and do a swab and determine that it wasnt amniotic fluid.
at 1 I go to the bathroom, come back and sit on the bed and there is a HUGE gush I stand up and there is NO doubt that its my water.
The nurse tells me now that my water has broken my contractions are going to start getting really strong and painful and she asked If I wanted the epidural.
Heres the thing
I WAS TERRIFIED!
I have heard the scariest things about epidurals and spinal headaches. I had a friend I drove back and fourth to the doctor multiple times because of her spinal headache and she seemed totally miserable. I'm also on baby center and people talk about the horrific side effects from it. I don't really care about going natural I just realllllllllllllllyyy dont want the headaches when I'm trying to take care of a new born.
I tell the doctor this and NO JOKE he has SO many people come in and tell me the pros and cons of the epi and the nurses are like "you should really get it we have a great anesthesiologist". I could tell they were being honest too. That they really wanted my experience to be comfortable.
I tell them I'll think about it and i lay back to relax.
My mom shows up at about 2 or so and my contractions start in full swing.
They were coming about 40 seconds every minute and they were SO strong I'm guessing bc of the cytotec.
These bad boys are in FULL SWING and my awesome hubs is by my side holding my hand and counting for me so I can get through them. They were painful but bearable. Then all of a sudden the pain in my back is INTENSE. I cannot even describe it. I felt like a semi was driving over my lower spine. I tell Sam I really don't want the epidural but this is horrific. He tells me its my call on what I want to do. I decide to page the nurse and tell her I decided to get the epi. They check me and I'm 6cm dilated. I was thinking maybe it would take a little while to get the guy to come in.
Not even 2 minutes later he comes in the room and I start to have a mini panic attack bc I'm just so terrified of the spinal head aches. kinda irrational I know.
He has me sit on the side of the bed and hunch over holding onto Sam. I start to cry and say I'm so scared I'm so scared. He tells me I will feel a poke in my back and a burning sensation for 15 seconds.
Poke
then burning lol
he flings something over my shoulder and starts putting tape everywhere and tells me to sit back and lay down. I said were done? He said "yep and there was no blood in the cath so you most likely wont get a headache"
YAYAYAYAYAYAYAAYAYAYAYAYA
well about 15 minutes after getting the epi I start to feel woozy. I ask the nurse for a wet wash cloth for my forehead. She gets it for me and places it on my head. I ask her to turn the fan on and she was typing on the computer and she says sure just a minute. I am kind of lethargic at this point and im like PLEASE TURN THE FAN ON! She goes and turns it on (i felt bad) I tell her im going to throw up and feel sick she grabs a puke bucket and im like ughhh oooohhh ugghhh and then I start blacking out. I'm going in and out of it and my stomach was so empty instead of vomiting im like foaming. She runs out of the room and brings back the anesthesiologist he comes running in and injects something into me and literally within 2 minutes I feel 100% better. I asked the nurse what happened and she told me everything and she said that it is common for that to happen to patients who have high blood pressure and are on magnesium. She said my face lost all of its color. She said I was whiter than a sheet of paper. Scary but after i got the injection I felt perfectly fine.
Time to relax!!
To bad my brain was going a million miles an hour and I couldn't sleep bc I was so excited.
BUT my mom was able to!
Lillys LiLi waiting on her to arrive!
My Mom and Sam went to the cafeteria to get a cup of coffee and when they were gone the docs came in and checked me and lo and behold im 10 cm and ready to go!
I got very nervous all of a sudden and felt really sick. I told Sam that I thought I was going to throw up and to bring my bucket. He brings it over to me and I cant even roll over bc im numb. I tell him help me! help me! and he had to take me by the arm and ROLL me onto my side so i could get sick. Boy did I ever!
The doctors all 5 of them lol come in and confirm that I am and my awesome Doctor Chatman comes and she tells me we are going to do a few practice pushes so that I can learn to push.
Me pushing sams booty lol Dr. Chatman sitting on her leg. Dr. Robacker making sure shes doing it right lol and Dr Wendy observing.
I only pushed for half an hour then got the best gift in the entire world.
Lillian Irene McCanna
6lb 11.2 oz 18 inches long born at 7:41 pm August 25th, 2012
Crying like a big baby and saying awwwhhh, awwwhhhhh
Getting her vitals taken
While she was getting that done I was getting stitched up. I had a second degree tear and an internal tear. They were teaching Dr Wendy how to do it so it took about an half hour.
After getting settled in the little incubator thingy looking adorable.
Proud Daddy
First Family Photo
Funny picture of Sam while I was in labor pretending he was pushing buttons.
Beautiful little feet!
Once we had gotten to the recovery room^^ it was all about bonding from there on out. I got to try my hand at nursing and Sam changed her diapers.
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Loving on his girl
Snuggle time
Got Daddys Nose
Holding her for the first time
Her long beautiful hair
We spent two days in recovery and before we knew it it was time to go home!
Dad of the year carrying out our belongings!
Baby girl in her carseat!
Her going home outfit
Were only on our third full day home but so far so good. She has some jaundice but its slowly going away!
Sam came home with these for me the other day
My card to go with them!
Everything is falling into place and I absolutley couldnt be happier.
I cant believe my baby girl is finally here and well.
I will prob make a post every saturday updating everyone on her progress week to week!
Thanks for reading this novel!
-The McCanna FAMILY <3
