First Tri 1-13 weeks:
- Morning Sickness Galore
- Food Aversions
- Extreme Fatigue (With an toddler, this was the worst)
- Weight Loss
Second Tri 14-26 weeks:
- Energy returned
- Belly started getting bigger
- Still Losing weight
- Ultrasound at 20 weeks
- We wanted to find out the gender on the birthday, but changed our minds at the last minute!
- Found out it was a girl!
- Lots of ultrasounds to confirm growth was on schedule due to weight loss in me.
Third Tri 27-39 weeks:
- Lots of falls
- Lots of ultrasounds
- Lots of doc visits
- Lots of Chiropractor visits
- Braxton Hicks (Never Experienced with Ryker)
- Lots of position flipping. (Breech, Transverse, Cephalic (Head down))
- Labor Started at 37 weeks 4 days
- Stopped Labor due to position change after 2 cm dilation.
- Miserably large!
- Low-lying baby.
- No Sleep
- Humongous appetite
- Finally gained weight (Total of 14 lbs)
At the 39 week appointment, mom went with me and Ryker came too. I had been feeling horrible. Dizzy, light headed, Tunnel vision. They took my blood pressure and for the first time it was extremely high. It read 170/110. So they rushed me right from the appointment to the hospital. Once hooked up to the monitor, my blood pressure was checked every 15 minutes. It went back down once I was settled. My hopes for a VBAC (Vaginal after Cesarean) were very low because Lorelai couldn't make up her mind what way was more comfortable. We scheduled the C-section for 6:00PM due to me eating breakfast before my appointment.
I chose to deliver at Fitz-Gibbon Hospital in Marshall, MO. Amazing care was given to me the whole day! I got to ask all kinds of questions, I got to meet my docs, nurses, and surgery attendants. I felt very prepared for the whole thing. I still felt the despair of having yet another C-Section. My Doc apologized and talked me through it. All I cared for anymore was having my baby in my arms!
The Cesarean went great. Once they got the spinal block in, and laid me down, they did an ultrasound for position. Lorelai was Cephalic at the start. With all the tugging and pulling on my belly she flipped to Breech. Once she was born, they got her APGAR scores and immediately put her on my chest while they completed the surgery. Due to the spinal block, I felt like I was suffocating having a giant baby on my chest. She had a slight grown and some breathing troubles. Not enough to be concerned with. Once she was skin to skin with me, her breathing slowed, became more steady, and the grown subsided. I asked her to be removed from my chest so that I could breath. Once they were ready to send me back to the labor room, I got to have Lorelai all to myself for the trip from the Operating Room back to my room.
Once in the room, I immediately started to nurse her. Due to the amount of amniotic fluid she swallowed on the way out, she was not hungry. I just held her skin to skin until she let me know she was ready to eat. I had a large supply of colostrum and so my beautiful baby would eat and sleep for 4-5 hours. I still tried in between feedings to dreamfeed, but it was unsuccessful. They did all her tests and the Vit K shot while on my belly.
She slept on my chest all night and into the next morning. I was up and walking 12 hours after surgery and had a shower and even did my makeup. I stayed in the hospital for 2 days and got to go home. Lorelai measured 8 lbs 9 oz and was 20.5 inches long.
So here she is! At 3.5 months...
