So Rayna Victoria White decided to enter the world on September 7, 2013 at 0542. I remember after an exhausting week I was totally feeling tired of being pregnant. The increased weight gain was getting to me the bi-weekly appts to the doctors at Bethesda and FBCH, the 1/2 days and dealing with staffing had all become very intense in this last week. I can remember asking Jason if he could do the next two weeks of carrying our daughter for me.........
PAUSE... (Gotta Pump my boobs feel like they are about to explode, more on that whole process in my next blog entry).
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IM BACK 5 hours later, LOL
Wow so being a mommy your schedule is no longer your own. Since I took my pause I have breast fed, ate lunch, napped, pumped and breast fed again!!!
So back to her amazing arrival...
On Friday Sept 6, (My mommies bday) I called off work because I hadn't slept the night before at all and was just feeling blah... So Hubby and I stayed home and chilled for the day. Later that night I was downstairs filling out thank you cards hubby made us some chocolate chip cookies nice and warm out the over at 9pm. We then went up to bed and for once in a very infrequent time my hubby wanted some loving!!!!! He has been so careful during this pregnancy. Intimacy was not the priority, a healthy pregnancy and baby was.. EVEN THOUGH A GIRL HAS NEEDS!! TMI right..
Okay so after intimacy, we clean up and Jason notices blood. I go to bathroom and in the toilet I see a large blood clot. So I text our Dr (yes i have her cell phone.. benefits of Navy and caring doctor) and ask what we should do. She suggested coming in to get evaluated. So we decided at 11pm to drive to Fort Belvoir to get checked out.
We get there around 12 am and I get hooked up to the monitor ... Baby is fine and from the monitor I'm not showing any contractions. So the Dr. comes and says he wanted o check my cervix he does and he says there is no active bleeding but he can see some blood around the cervical opening. He then checks to see if I was dilated. When doing this he says well you are 4 cm DILATED... Im like really how does that happen... I never once felt a contraction!!
So now the story changes quickly because due to my medical history I was not to go into full labor with contractions!! SO after much deliberation they decide i need to be transported to Bethesda to have a C-section because the risk of uterine rupture was greater than having a 34 week baby...@@
At this point I still don't fathom the thought of having a baby tonight!!
So at one point the Dr's suggested that I have the baby at FBCH then medivac my baby to Bethesda... NO I DON"T THINK SO.. I did not want to be separated from baby and luckily my Dr agreed. I hadn't progressed any more than 4 cm so the compromise was the DR would ride in the ambulance with us to Bethesda which was cool I experienced some mild like cramps which were bearable ever since i was checked by he Dr.
Cute little facts that makes me know the angels were in my favor.. MY EMT's name was Robyn spelled just like mine with a Y!!!! and the Dr that scheduled to do my C-section was Dr. Hope!!
here is my crew, Dr. and Robyn and Doug (i think)
So we get to Bethesda and it becomes real!!!! I have the anesthegolist come talk about spinal block, I prayed with her!! Then the surgical process begins>>>> Blood Work, Shaving the who who, and signing a lot of consents>>>>>>> Check out Daddy who was very TIRED all ready and overwhelmed...
Go DADDY!!
So Im rushed to prep spinal tap goes great in the OR. with a all girl operating team... everyone is in good spirits I never feel rushed or like it was an emergency everything went so smoothly I could feel gods hand all over it.. There was a peace, a calm!!
So Hubby comes and sits with me at head of the bed and we wait to hear our baby girl cry.. everything started around 0445 and at 0542 we hear the most beautiful sound.. A cry from our baby!!!
I didn't really feel overwhelmed or anything because I couldn't see anything. I just heard her. I asked how
was she and everyone said perfect!! SO she was rushed over and cleaned up and daddy went to cut the umbilical cord.... this is what he got to see....
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