I haven't written a post forever. I will try to get better. But this one is going to be all about Ezra's birth story and the long days following at the hospital. My blood pressure was slowly going up and since Mike and I are done having kids we decided to go with a repeat c-section and get my tubes tied. We went in Monday morning about 6:15. I really didn't sleep the night before. We got there, they gave me an iv and got everything set up in the computer. They said it would be a few hours because they were already doing one. But they finished with the first one quick. About 7:30 they took me back to the room to give me the spinal tap and get me ready for surgery. I was freezing cold. But it went quickly and easily. Soon the doctor came in and they finally let Mike in. He said it was a long 20 minutes of waiting. I really couldn't feel anything other than the touch. Ezra didn't want to come out the doctor had to grab him a few times and he would twist to go back in. They finally got him out and I was just waiting for the first cry. I finally heard it, he has a healthy set of lungs. I got to see him for a little bit before he headed to nursery. He was grunting a lot so they had to give him tests to make sure he was okay. In the meantime, my doctor tied my tubes and stitched me up. I just laid their holding back tears and tried to not throw up. They finally took me back to my room. They had to do vitals and they said that I was so cold that they had to add a heater to my bed. I wanted to sleep, but I also wanted to see my boy. After an hour we headed down to the recovery floor. As I was getting checked in down there my husband got to go see Ezra get his first bath. He of course didn't take pictures. I waited for another hour to even get to see Ezra.
When they first brought him to me I thought that he was so tiny. He was also so beautiful to me
I think this is the hardest recovery that I have ever had with all 4 of my kids. The first day I got really hot and felt like I was going to pass out. They took my bp it was low and my heart rate was really fast. They had me lay with my feet up for awhile. I was also very cold to the touch the whole day and couldn't stay awake. That night I started getting really weird cramps that would go from my right shoulder down to my stomach. They would make me curl up into a ball. The nurse kept giving me more pain medicine to get rid of them. They finally went away about 4 in the morning. Though the stomach cramps stayed the whole next day. While all this pain was going on the decided to take my blood count it came back low enough that they decided to do a blood transfusion. After the first transfusion they took my blood again and it was still low. So they decided to give me another one. It went up a little, but doctor decided to keep me an extra day and was put on iron pills. Wednesday I finally convinced the nurses that I really needed to shower. I was lucky enough to take one with the nurse in the room with me. But at least I got one. Just sitting up made me really dizzy and not feeling good. Luckily my husband was home with other kids so I could sleep as much as possible.
Ezra came in one morning clinging on his pacifier. It was so cute. Tuesday they took Ezra to get some testing and it came back that he was at a med. level for Jaundice they took it Thursday morning and he was a lot higher. So I had to supplement and he had to go under the bili lights for the day. Luckily that worked and my milk finally came in at the same time. He came to my room only to nurse on Thursday it was a long day. Friday Morning I finally got to come home. I was so excited. I fed him and then I ate. I got us ready to go before my husband got there to pick me up. It was so nice to get out of the hospital.
He has been a joy to have home his brother and sisters love it. So far he has peed on us 3 times. But he is overall doing good other than not wanting to sleep at night. I am doing okay other than lack of sleep and in pain once in awhile. This morning was first stressful we had to get kids to school. Ezra had kept me up until 4 and about 7:45 I woke up and kids had to be on bus by 8:35 I had not had a pain pill since 10:30 night before so I had a hard time even moving. But luckily my husband was home to help.
