Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Where to Start??
So much has happened over the past couple of weeks!! Last Sunday night I woke up with excruciating pain in my uterus and ended up in the ER Monday morning. I started having horrible labor contractions that came every 5 minutes or so. They were giving me narcotics, but they were not helping at all. It was crazy. I have never been in so much pain in my life. They had done an ultrasound and said that there might be some retained products of conception (aka placenta) in my uterus that are trying to be passed. I was admitted into the hospital and about 30 minutes later after having these horrible contractions, I went into the bathroom. When I was about to sit down, literally a bucket of blood poured out of me along with a cantaloupe-sized clot. I immediately felt complete relief!! It was crazy! My husband about lost it because before I could say "I feel so much better!", he thought I was dying and all of my insides just came out! Later, a midwife told me that the labor pains were a bazillion times more painful for me than natural labor because I had the C-section incision in my uterus that hasn't completely healed yet and I had a massive infection. I never want to feel that kind of pain again. You could have stuck me in my eye and it might have felt better. : )
I had another one of these episodes another hour later. They were giving me rounds of IV antibiotics for infection and did a CAT scan on Tuesday which uncovered more masses that still needed to be delivered. Seriously?? So, we scheduled a D&C for the next morning. The doctor was a little leery to do a D&C since I had just had a Cesarean and because he didn't want to be scraping a uterus that was infected. So, we waited an extra day. My hematocrit was also super low and he wanted me to have 2 units of blood to get stabilized. We had the D&C on Wednesday morning. They said that there was definitely a piece of the placenta left in my uterus. WHAT? Supposedly, it is super rare with a C-section since the doctor can see everything right there. I don't know what happened. After the D&C, I ended up needing 2 more units of blood before I could get discharged. We finally left around 9pm on Wednesday night.
The big bummer in all of this (well, one of them!) was that Sadie's birthday was on Tuesday. I absolutely hated not being home for her birthday. Jeff brought the girls to the hospital for 30 minutes that night to have cake and open presents, but it wasn't the same. It was really hard to be away from the girls again after just being away for several days with the C-section.
Brielle, fortunately, was able to stay with me at the hospital so that I could continue to breastfeed. And, honestly, it is a miracle that I was able to. Somehow the Lord allowed her feeding schedule to sync up with when I wasn't in so much pain. I had to pump a couple of times, but that was it. It was also against hospital policy to allow her to stay overnight since she hadn't just been delivered and wasn't a patient. After much debate, they decided to make an exception for us with the knowledge that she didn't have a security band on and they weren't liable for anything that would happen to her. I was so very grateful!!
I have been recouping well minus a trip back to the ER on Friday due to weakness, lethargy and dizziness. They gave me a couple bags of fluid and I was on my way. My body just doesn't bounce back the way it used to. Plus the demands of breastfeeding make it more of a challenge probably. I am feeling much, much better this week!
More update on Brielle for my next post. She is my absolute dream baby!!! So super easy compared to my other two : ) Love her!!!
I had another one of these episodes another hour later. They were giving me rounds of IV antibiotics for infection and did a CAT scan on Tuesday which uncovered more masses that still needed to be delivered. Seriously?? So, we scheduled a D&C for the next morning. The doctor was a little leery to do a D&C since I had just had a Cesarean and because he didn't want to be scraping a uterus that was infected. So, we waited an extra day. My hematocrit was also super low and he wanted me to have 2 units of blood to get stabilized. We had the D&C on Wednesday morning. They said that there was definitely a piece of the placenta left in my uterus. WHAT? Supposedly, it is super rare with a C-section since the doctor can see everything right there. I don't know what happened. After the D&C, I ended up needing 2 more units of blood before I could get discharged. We finally left around 9pm on Wednesday night.
The big bummer in all of this (well, one of them!) was that Sadie's birthday was on Tuesday. I absolutely hated not being home for her birthday. Jeff brought the girls to the hospital for 30 minutes that night to have cake and open presents, but it wasn't the same. It was really hard to be away from the girls again after just being away for several days with the C-section.
Brielle, fortunately, was able to stay with me at the hospital so that I could continue to breastfeed. And, honestly, it is a miracle that I was able to. Somehow the Lord allowed her feeding schedule to sync up with when I wasn't in so much pain. I had to pump a couple of times, but that was it. It was also against hospital policy to allow her to stay overnight since she hadn't just been delivered and wasn't a patient. After much debate, they decided to make an exception for us with the knowledge that she didn't have a security band on and they weren't liable for anything that would happen to her. I was so very grateful!!
I have been recouping well minus a trip back to the ER on Friday due to weakness, lethargy and dizziness. They gave me a couple bags of fluid and I was on my way. My body just doesn't bounce back the way it used to. Plus the demands of breastfeeding make it more of a challenge probably. I am feeling much, much better this week!
More update on Brielle for my next post. She is my absolute dream baby!!! So super easy compared to my other two : ) Love her!!!
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