This is super late...but August 24 was the day our Lacey-Grace came into the world! It was such an exciting day (well.....looking back lol) Before I start with the day of, let me first say that the Friday before (Aug 22) I only slept a total of 3 hours and was WIDE awake the rest of the night. Then on Saturday, we left the church at 6 am to go to an AWANA meeting and returned around 9 that night. On the way home, my back started hurting a little but that was due to sitting ALL day long. About 8:00 the top of my stomach started hurting pretty bad and then I began vomiting (normal for my pregnancy). I figured my body was just tired from the extreme long day and lack of sleep. I decided to just sleep it off! I woke up at 1 am still in pain and it was more severe and still vomiting. So I did what every girl would do......called my mom :) She told me to call the hospital, but I knew I wasn't in labor and did not want to go, just to be sent home. But, I knew something was not right! So I gave in, woke up Daniel at 1:20 and he said we are going to the hospital. We were there by 2:00. (I had even called my doctor waiting for her to call me back, but she never did so we just decided to go to the hospital) I had only 6 hours of sleep in almost two days....
They monitored me for a while, but said my contractions were too far apart. Then they checked some lab work and there was some stuff going on wrong with my liver (causing the pain) and my blood pressure was 150/99 or something....so they decided to induce me due to preeclampsia. I was scared of the pain of being induced...so I immediately asked about my epidural! lol They took me to labor and delivery and then gave me my epidural before the pitocin! (I was thankful) My family arrived about lunch time and Daniel's family later that afternoon. Labor was extremely long!! I felt like the epidural kept wearing off so they gave me more pain medicine off and on. Then late afternoon, I started to feel back labor....not good!!! They gave me a little more pain medicine and then told me I couldn't have any more. (something about it could go into my lungs) They were also concerned about her breathing on her own due to me being on magnesium for so long. Therefore, we had to have a special NICU team in the room when she was born. That is about all I remember due to being absolutely exhausted! I was thankful when about 9:30 they told I was at 10cm!!! We all cheered lol She was born about a hour and half later at 10:52 pm, weight 7 lb, 2 oz. She immediately breathed on her own so no NICU team was ever needed! Praise the Lord!! I was so glad she was here and no more pain!! HA
I was kept on a magnesium IV for 24 hours, which made the next day rough. Then they were concerned about my platelet levels (they kept dropping) so they wanted me to have a blood transfusion. Um.....no thank you please!!!! So they monitored till the next morning and they remained the same so no blood transfusion! After being off the IV, I was finally allowed to get out of bed and began to feel better :) Then we had to stay two more days for Lacey-Grace's bili levels to come down and my blood pressure. Thankfully, they let us come home on Thursday! We kept taking her to the doctors for her bili levels to be checked and she stayed on a bili blanket for a week. This is not the experience I ever had in mind with being induced (last thing I wanted) and her having trouble with her bili levels. BUT it was an experience I am forever grateful for and one I will always remember! We LOVE our baby girl beyond any expression!
