This was the day that Sean and I were finally blessed with our baby.
Because he stayed sideways the whole time, I elected to have a C-section. I was given the option a few weeks before to try to have them flip him from the outside. I didn't want to do this because the success rates weren't great. Plus, stressing the baby out which would lead to an emergency C-section was also a possibility. This wasn't worth the risk, so I just decided to let him be and schedule a C-section. Plus, I figured he was in there the way he was for a reason, so why bug him?
The morning of the procedure, we got to the hospital at 6 am. I got labs drawn and up to the floor I went. They started the IV and made sure the baby was still sideways via ultrasound. I knew he was. He had his head in my ribs almost the whole time. Once they did what they had to do, in to the OR I went. I was nervous. They had to use an ultrasound on my back to start the spinal block because apparently my spine is "kind of crooked." That took a while. It stung. At one point, it felt like I got shocked once they got the catheter in. Once they laid me down, I started to get really hot. My blood pressure rose so they had to give me medicine to bring it down. By the time they got Sean, they had already started cutting me open.
It took them a while to get him out. They were pushing like crazy on me. The doc told us after that his arm popped out first. Apparently all the pushing was stressing him out. They had to get him out feet first. So, it made me glad that I elected not to try to flip him before.At 8:11am, our beautiful baby was born. Carter Isaac. The love of our lives. He was 9lbs 2.4oz and 21 1/4 inches long. And he's perfect. We both cried when he was born. I have so much more to write about but for now, pictures of our beautiful rainbow.
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