May was the start of a busy month for us! The weekend before (April 27th) my work threw me and Lily an amazing baby shower! Thanks to my "two pals" for putting it together. Pink everything! So many wonderful things and SO many CUTE clothes! May 5th, I had a family baby shower! Again SO many cute things. My sister in law is SUPER AMAZING! I love you Terrica! I especially liked the videoed game (Lily ask your mom about that someday)! We were busy trying to piece together Lily's room, wash clothes, and just organize. I was overwhelmed by all the many things we recieved!
May 16th was a typical Wednesday morning. Woke up, ate breakfast. Jackson and I were haning around and were going to go to Chick Fil A that day for a date. My Mom called me after breakfast and told me that my Grandpa (dad's dad) had major stroke and that he was in ICU. She was not sure what the severity was at the time but didn't think it was going to be a great outcome. She had an interview at work that day and had to attend that but wondered if after that I would come and pick her up and drive her to the hospital. Of coarse I would. So, thankfully, Jackson and I still had our date that day (it was just a little short) and then went and picked up my Mom and drove to St. Lukes on the Plaza. Called Dave and he said he would meet us after he got off work. Grandpa was stable but not out of the woods. We were up at the hospital for about 2 hours and then left. We went home that evening and I made dinner. One of the food adversions I had was spagetti. I have no idea why! lol. So I made that for Dave and Jackson and I had Sloppy Joes. Anyways while I was cooking dinner I felt a sharp pain and I told Dave, I think she is trying to push through. Haha. Didn't really think anything of it. We got ourselves ready for bed and laid down. I was going to go into work the next day for a meeting a Manny's. I was SOOO very excited. Pregnant woman think about upcoming meals often, lol. We feel asleep and I was never uncomfortable that night. Fell right to sleep.
Well all the sudden I woke up at about 2:30am on 5/17/12. My pants and sheets were wet. I thought to myself, oh no! I am going to have to wake Dave up so I can chage the sheets, because I wet the bed. I was so embarassed! Stood up so I could go to the bathroom and all the sudden more trickled. At that moment I really didn't think it was pee. Got to the bathroom and KNEW it was not pee! "Dave!!! Get up, we have to go to the hospital". Dave in a half sleep, "What, why?". Well my water broke I think. He went and got Jackson up. Jackson was excited and confused. I think he saw this all going down differently in his head too. lol.
We get to the maternity unit at about 3:30am. They get me set up, IV started. Monitors going, and then they checked me. Yep, my membranes broke. The doctor (Dr. Morgan, not my doctor but another in the group) told me that I was not having contractions so we were going to just hang out for right now. Not in a hurry to get her seems she was only 35 weeks. He told me that when the membranes break it naturally speeds up the development of the lungs so if we can hang out for about 24 hours that would be great. So Dave calls all the grandparents around 4:45 and says we are at the hospital and I am in labor but we are hanging out right now. Comes back in at about 5:15 and around 5:30 the nurse comes in and says I am having contractions. They are making Lily have heart decels. So we flip to the sides, try O2 and nothing is stopping them. They did not want to give me meds to stop them as I was already 35 weeks. Far enough to let things happen. So it was a repeat c-section (I was really hoping to TRY vbac). And it was considered emergent because of the heart decels. They were taking me back by 6:15am. My Dad and Sister in law met me in the room minutes before they took me back to the OR. I was so happy to have my Dad pray with us before we went back. He prayed with me before I walked down the isle, prayed with me before Jackson came and now prayed with me before Lily came! My Dad is very special to me!!! We finished our prayer and they wisked me away. Jackson stayed with them and Dave was able to stay with me. We went in and when they started administering the anesthetics I got very sick to my stomach. Only lasted about 5 minutes but that is a terrible feeling when you can't move your body! Dave came in after they started and just talked with me through all of it. Dr. Morgan kept cracking jokes which was nice! They got to Lily and pulled her out, she was CRYING!!! Praise God! I was praying the whole time that things would be okay. Dave goes over to see her. Still screaming, Dave yells over "Her palate is intact!!!". I lose it. I am crying and proclaiming PRAISE GOD! We were told she had a 90% chance the palate would be involved as well. We were one of the 10%! Kiddos with cleft palates can have trouble eating, speech issues, hearing issues. They go through a lot of additional things! And I was told when I see her for the first time I would not even see the cleft, I would just see my baby. That was so true! She was beautiful and perfect! Anyways at this point I just want to shout it from the top of the building that she is here and good. They took her to the nursery to get her checked over. I went to recovery and then to my room. I got to see all my wonderful family. Soon after they came in and told us she was going to be going to the NICU because she required a little oxygen. They had her under an oxygen hood and that was not quite doing the trick. They could not do any type of nasal cannula because of the cleft so they had to intubate her. She was on the vent for 24 hours and pulled the tube herself! She was fiesty! They had to put little weights on her arms so she would not pull any other tubes. Hehe. She was in the NICU for 10 days and we grew to love her so much in that short time! She is perfect. God blessed us with two beautiful children!
