September 25th 2009
6 lbs 15 oz
20 Inches
8:58 am
It was a warm fall day, your Dad & I went to the doctor 2 days before to check on your progress in my belly. I had some complications where i was bleeding unexpectedly, the Dr told us everything was fine and asked us how about Thursday? Your dad & I were like what? Thursday? he said yeah, how would like to become parents on Thursday, meet me at the hospital at 3pm and lets have a baby, i will induce you. This is 3 weeks before your due date so we were surprised & excited. So Thursday rolls around, we head to the hospital and they induce me (meaning they give me some medicine to get you to start wanting to come out). We wait we wait we wait some more and after about 10 hours they offer Mommy an epidural to help with the pain of contractions. This epidural works so well Mommy feels no pain for the next 2-3 hours. At around 5:30am the pain comes back but the Dr says no more Epidural, baby Benjamin is ready to come out - come on Mommy push. So i push & I push & I push some more...Oh my does this hurt, soooo much....I'm crying to Daddy just pull him out of me...they laugh they wont pull you out of me, and ask me for one more big push...OK here we go, it kinda feels like and indian burn to the 100th degree. I push and i can feel your head coming out, they can see your head coming out then i run out of breath and breathe and you pop back in....oh no...lol...So here i go again one more big push, i give this one all that i got...i run out of breathe and keep holding it this time and push you out! Ahhhh.....& there you go you....all i hear is your cry WAA WAAA WAAA, its amazing, your so beautiful, (we don't have video but we do have audio)
Holding you for the 1st time after you came out
I love you
But the story doesn't end here...things took a scary turn after this. After you came out the Dr's & Nurses kept on eye on me to make sure i recovered OK from having you but something went wrong, i wouldn't stop bleeding, IT was a very scary sight. I sent Daddy up to the nursery with you because i didn't want you to be without a parent. I was in so much pain, i felt like i was still having contractions and i could feel lots of blood coming out of me with each beat of my heart. I was so scared, the nurse went to find my Dr but he had already left and the Dr on duty didn't know what was wrong. They looked to see if maybe i was torn somewhere inside or if some of the placenta was left behind but none of that was the cause. The nurse on duty called my Dr, who turned his car around by the toll booth of the Staten Island bridge (we were lucky he postponed his vacation to come back for me). When my Dr came back (Dr.McManus) they took me into emergency surgery to take a look inside and see what was causing me to lose all this blood. After 2-3 hours they determined that i had a bad case of whats called Uterine Atony. This usually causes women to lose all their blood after giving birth & die. There is no known cause for it, and the usual treatment is a hysterectomy (which means they take out all the parts that allow a women to have children) when they told me this i didnt even care because i was so happy i already had you. Luckily for our family, Dr. McManus specializes in difficult pregnancies and was the chief of obstetrics in the hospital and knew a different way to help Mommy without giving me a hysterectomy. So after surgery and a 2 pints of blood transfusion I was all better. 15 hours after having you and recovering from all that madness, Daddy was able to bring you down to me so that I could hold you again.
Mommy & Benjamin
Daddy & Benjamin
Once we got through that little scare all went smooth as silk from that point on and after 4 days in the hospital we all went home together.
