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Team Green turned Team Blue!! Introducing Taylor Duane T.

Babybear70Babybear70 member
in June 2012 Moms

Oh my gosh!!! What a whirlwind of events after I posted last Thursday. Sorry it has taken me so long, but after you read our birth story you will understand why.

So to start, on Wednesday I went and had my membranes stripped, and while walking out to the truck to go back to work I had a small gush of fluid. Went to L&D triage, tests were run but were inconclusive to being amniotic fluid, so they sent me home. Thursday started out as any other ordinary day until about 10:00am when I lost my MP. Finally a showing that our LO was going to be coming soon. Fast forward to 1:45pm, I'm still at work talking to one of my project managers when all of a sudden my water breaks!!! OMG!!! This is the real deal this time.

So I walk out to my truck, call DH and tell him that it is time and that we have to go. He is going to meet me at the hospital. I'm not contracting so really no big deal. My biggest problem was all the fluid. Thank goodness DH left an old towel in my truck so I sat on that, but the fluid was coming out too fast. So the funny part of this birth story is that I had to pull over on the side of one of the busiest main streets in Lansing and just let some of the water run out for lack of a better term. It was so embarassing yet so memorable at the same time.

So into triage I go, no mistaking this is broken water for sure. I get wheeled into my delivery room to wait. About 4:00 the contractions were finally getting onto being something that I could really feel, but not too bad. About 5:00pm, they were really starting to get bad and they were right on top of one another. I couldn't even recover from one before the next one was sweeping over me. I finally called it around 7:00pm and got my epidural. I was dialated to 3-4. So on I labored pretty  much pain free except for the right side was getting more epidural than the left side, but  nothing I couldn't handle.

Well, they were monitoring my vitals and of course monitoring my baby, but I started to spike a temperature that they didn't like, and baby started showing signs of distress. So at 12:30am they called it and decided that the best route to go was c-section. Around 2:00am-ish they wheeled me into the OR, and at 3:02am my precious little Taylor was born. He weighed 6lbs 15 oz. and was 20.5 inches long. They wisked him out to check him over and he wasn't breathing properly so they decided to take him up to the NICU, and it was a good thing they did. I was finally able to see my little man at 7:00am.

Come to find out I was coming down with an inffection and it made him sick too, plus  he had a partially collapsed lung that needed to be inflated. We were finally able to hold him on Fathers Day. I was discharged on Tuesday after crazy amounts of antibiotics, but DH ran me back up to the hospital everyday just to sit and snuggle with him. He was finally able to come home on Thursday. He is happy, healthy and quite the snuggler, and even though he had trouble with his lungs to start, they are more than fully functioning now! :) So we are all home, happy and healthy and working on adjusting to having a newborn in the house. So for all of your viewing pleasure, here is a picture of my precious little Taylor!

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