So, when Dr. Thornton finally arrived around 1:00am, I was ready to push! She first had to get everything prepped. But, when she said I could push... I did! She said I was doing a great job! After 2 good pushes she told me that I would have Jude on the next push! I couldn't believe it! The moment I had waited 37 weeks for (Well actually since I was 5 years old!) was finally going to happen! When the contraction came I pushed as hard as I could... almost... one more solid push and his head was out! She told me to stop so she could suction out his mouth and nose. Then I pushed once more and he was free!!! I was in utter shock when I saw him! They laid him on my chest and I remember saying OMG, OMG, OMG, over and over. I just couldn't believe what I was seeing! I got to breastfeed right away, which was so wonderful! I didn't know who or what was going on around me... all I saw was Jude (and Bryan occasionally lol). Nothing else mattered... and I was slightly delusional due to my lack of sleep and exhaustion. After awhile they took him over to get weighed... he was 6 lbs even and 18.5 inches long (his cone head was probably an inch of that!) Even with a cone head he was truly the most beautiful baby I had ever laid eyes on!
Since it was the middle of the night, we were encouraged to get some rest, but I had one heck of a time trying to fall asleep! Since I had heard Jude's heart beat over the ultrasound machine for the last two full days I could not get that sound out of my head! It was ringing in my ears as I was having some really scary, crazy visions... like I was racing through a fun house of clowns and scary things... I can't even explain what I was seeing, but I only got MAYBE 2 hours of sleep that night!! I was riding on Adrenalin all day!!
I absolutely loved my night time nurse! Her name was Amanda and she was so stinkin' cute and sweet! She had a nice soft voice, which I needed after all that I had just been through! Sadly she had to leave at 7am, and my morning nurse was NOT my cup of tea! She was loud and talked really fast... I was way too drowsy to keep up with her at 8 in the morning after sleeping a totally of MAYBE 6 hours in 2 days!
Jude had to endure more tests and such that morning, and since he was premature he had to have a car seat test for a half an hour to make sure his neck was strong enough to support his head at that angle. (Which he passed! :) He passed all of his tests which made Mommy and Daddy proud!) Bryan and I enjoyed ordering breakfast in bed, while he was away. The food really wasn't as bad as I've heard people say! And boy, did we have a lot of it!
I'm going to write what happened the next 3 days, because, yes, we were in the hospital until noon on SATURDAY!! Because Jude was premature, they had mentioned that he could develop jaundice. I was hoping not, but Thursday, October 7th, his bilirubin number was elevated to indicate he was jaundice. We asked for the light source machine to be brought to our room, so we could watch over him while he stayed under the lights most of the day. We could only remove him so he could nurse, then we had to put him back. :( It was hard not being able to snuggle with him like we had hoped, but we wanted to kick the jaundice as fast as we could so we could go home with him. We were hoping Friday that his bilirubin number had dropped so we could take him home.... it had, but not enough where the doctor felt it was safe, so we had to stay a-WHOLE -nother day!
We finally got to take him home Saturday, October 9th! It was so fun loading him into his car seat... he looked SOOO ITTY-BITTY in there! Bryan drove the car up to the front of the building and a nurse wheeled me out. Bryan loaded Jude in and I got in the back of course to keep my eyes on Jude's little bobble head... we drove away thinking HE IS REALLY OURS TO TAKE! We would say to each other for the first month how we couldn't believe Jude was OURS! (We were waiting for someone to come take him away or something.)
It was kind of depressing living in a hospital for practically a week... but after a couple weeks of being home we started to miss the attention we had in the hospital and all of the nice staff! I still miss it to this day! Even though it was a long process I ABSOLUTELY CANNOT WAIT TO DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN!!!! :D
First family photo!
He was so swollen... but SOOO CUTE!!
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