Had my little peanut 2 weeks early! PIP

CarolinaKatie · May 2010

Luke William was born on Saturday, May 29 about 2 weeks early. He weighed 6 lbs, 7 oz and was 19.5 inches. Mommy, baby boy, Daddy, and big brother Nathan are all doing great!

He is such a cutie! He's a small fry, being a little early. Nathan was 8 lbs and almost a week late, so having this tiny little guy is a change! He's so sweet and cuddly. I'm completely in love!

First, send him some T&P please. Right now, he's been diagnosed with mild jaundice and is spending the night under the bilirubun (spelling?) lights that look like a baby tanning bed. He is nursing like a champ though so the nurses think between nursing every 2-3 hours and the lights all night tonight, we'll still be able to go home tomorrow. Let's hope so. I miss Nathan!

Nathan has been wonderful! I really had no clue how he would be. He is very interested in the baby. Every time he makes a noise, Nathan interrupts what he is doing to say "oh, I go see baby Luke!" He tells us when he's crying, but doesn't seem to be too upset by it. We'll see how that changes when we go home! Nathan has been great for his grandparents who are all tag teaming his care at home. He has not showed any jealousy and is OK with me not being with him. The first day he came here (a few hours after Luke was born), I was scared he'd want to jump on me and my c-sectioned tummy couldn't take that! But he was fine with Daddy lifting him to kiss me. When he left, he said "mommy come home, too?" He seemed OK with me saying that the doctors needed to take care of mommy's tummy boo-boo. He's very happy with his grandparents. The real test is when we go home, I guess!

I posted on Friday about my appointment on Thursday where the docs were concerned about my high blood pressure. We went to hospital on Saturday to check them again. I had been on bed rest Friday and did the 24 hour urine test and was feeling much better. Sure enough, my BPs were fine laying down and the doctor was prepared to send me home. Then, test results came back that showed my protein levels slightly high. Then my BPs taken sitting up were too high. Then an ultrasound showed the baby had slightly low fluid levels, but was measuring just fine and past 37 weeks. They thought about giving me hospital bed rest for 2-7 days to see what my BPs did and give the baby more time to plump up, but the general opinion from all the doctors (my doctor on call and maternal fetal medicine) was to go ahead and take him since he would be fine and to prevent anything happening to me because of these BPs. I was a bit upset since I really wanted to try for a v-bac, but it was what needed to be done.

So everything happened pretty fast from there. I kept hearing repeat, scheduled c-sections would be much easier to recover from than your first since your body has been through it before and since you do not labor. Well, so far recovery has been better. But the actual surgery I thought was much harder. The spinal allows you to "feel" more and a previous section requires more work for the doctor to get through all the scar tissue. So it was more painful and scary for my husband to watch me in that pain. After the baby was born, the actually gave me something that pretty much knocked me out for 30 minutes because of my pain. I know that scared my husband, but he and baby Luke were waiting for me in my recovery room where by then the pain meds had kicked in and I was ready to hold my new little guy!

At the end of the day, I had my beautiful new baby boy and it didn't matter how he came into the world. I'll post pictures soon. Thanks for reading!

I've never posed a pic in a post.....hope I did this right....