So I know that everybody has been so upset with me because there have been no postings of Kennidi. Just let me tell the story. On Sunday Sept. 30 I started contractions. Blake and I went to the hospital at about 4:00 pm, because the contractions were 4 minutes apart and coming fast. We get there and I am dialated to 1cm. That was very dissappointing.
They decide to keep me at the hospital. Around night time( I really have no idea what time it was), the doctor, which was Dr. Goddard, decided to give me morphine because I wasn't relaxing in between contraction to dialate. So about 10:00 am the next morning after a long night of waking up to every contraction Dr. Goddard (Rich) decides to break my water, and by this time I was almost dialated to 3 cm, which is not okay with me because through all that pain all night, I deserved more.
Anyways, so he breaks my water and we all decided that I will take pitocine, which helpscontractions stay consistant and helps me dialate. The only problem with that is that it makes contractions about 10x worse then they really are. So to compinsate for the pitocine they gave me an intrathecal, which numbs me from the waist down, but only for like 2 hours or so. So after the first intrathecal, Rich checks me and realizes that me cervix is behind Kennidi's head and all the contractig is really not helping. So he decides to try and pull my cervix forward. It is a good thing Iwas numb because by the sounds of it, I think that I would have killed him from the pain. Finally after the second intrathecal, I am finally dialated to 7 cm. Which is great, but also horrible, because I can no longer have any pain medicine and I have to dialate the reast of the time on my own. OH MY GOSH THE PAIN. 3 hours later I am barely at 9 cm. But I also feel like pushing, which would be hard pushing her out at only 9 cm. Finally I get to a 10, and I can finally start pushing. We thought that the baby would just pop out. Oh now. After an hour of pushing, having to use the vacuum and having an epesiotomy, she finally arrives at 9:51 pm Monday Oct. 1.
Yeah that's right I was at the hospital in labor for 30 HOURS, that is not counting the 6 hours of contractions I was having before I went to the hospital. Woo hoo. It is amazing how after the baby is out, your whole personality changes back to being the nice person you were before you were pregnant. Once she is out, the nurses find that she has swallowed mecomium. She is amniotic fluid and baby poop. So the nurses are working hard to get all the gunk out of her lungs, and while Kennidi is trying to breath, she sucks in air so hard that she pops a hole in her lungs, so how there is air between her rib cage and her lungs.
This problem will be fixed on its own. But for th fluid they have to immediatly put her on oxygen and start pumping her full of antibiotics.
I didn't get to hold my baby until about 3:00 am.
The doctors took blood test and they find a bacteria in her blood. So they give us the bad news that she will havet o be in the hospital for 7 more days. And I just started crying. But I finally calmed down because the nurses told me that I could stay at the hospital as a Boarding Mom. I can have a room as long as they didn't need one, I only got one meal a day. But I could stay with my baby. So I was okay with that. Then they do a test to see what kind of bacteria is in the blood, and they find that it is E-Coli. And they tell me that we are going to have to bet here for probably ten days. Which is longer, but I could still stay with her. the Dr. Reeder says that they have to do a Spinal Tap to make sure she didn't get meningitis from the E-Coli. So they do the spinal tap and they see that it is clear. But she still has E-Coli.
We were then told that we could go home the next day and come back every morning for 2 weeks and she will get a shot evey morning to treat the bacteria. So we were excited that we didn't have to stay. the next day Dr. Reeder comes backa nd says that he feels the best thing to do for her is for her to stay in the hospital for 2 weeks and have an IV for her antibiotics that are better for her. I was devistated. 2 more weeks, and I break down again trying to fogure out how I am going to nurse, I am going to have to get a pump. A big mess, that's when the nurses tell me that they want me to stay there in the hospital with Kennidi for those 2 weeks. So we were in for a long haul. During the duration of our visit Kennidi had 5 different IV's. 2 in each foot and one in her hand. We were just glad that they never had to put the IV in her head. So as of 9:00 am on Monday Oct. 22. we were free of the hospital. Kennidi is doing great.
No bacteria was shown in her blood. And Daddy is really happy that his girls are finally home.
