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March 30 It's a boy!Todays Mood(s): Hopeful and Happy
What she had another baby?!?! Yes! I've had no internet since September, so many of you missed out on the pregnancy stories like I had with Elizabeth. I will try and sum it up as best as I can. The first I thought of it was way back in August. I missed my monthly friend :P but I put it off to missing it because of stress...the more I thought of it, I didn't remember having it in July either. When I missed it again in September I knew for sure and a doctor confirmed it for me. I was pregnant. My due date was confirmed by ultrasound, I was due March 8th. I finally got to tell people, and I was already 16 weeks along. I must have been having a blonde moment lol. I feared bleeding again like I did with Elizabeth, but thankfully my pregnancy progressed normally and without any problems. Then we get to January 29th. It was a normal day. Baby moved alot. I didn't have anything out of the ordinary happen. Had dinner out with my friend Kathy and another lady. I came home and had a relaxing bath with John, just talking about how our day went. John said something that made me laugh, and all of a sudden there was a gush of bright red blood filling the tub. Well, we got on the phone with the hospital right away because bright red blood in pregnancy is bad because it is "new blood" not "old blood" which would be a brown color. So they said to come in right away. We got there close to 11:30pm. They hooked me up to all the monitors, and checked the pad I had put on to see how much blood was there and they agreed that it was "new blood". My doctor arrived and did an internal exam. She said I wasn't dialated and my cervix was still good. So they were just going to keep me overnight and do an ultrasound in the morning to see if the placenta was seperating. Okay, no big deal I thought, everything would be okay. Wrong. I was laying there trying to sleep, when around 2:00am I felt another big gush of blood. I was soaked with it and had to change. The nurse who came to help me, said it looked "watery". They tested the fluid and told me my water had broken! So then they decided it would be best to induce me. They put the iv in and started the process. They upped the oxytocin regularly. I couldn't have an epidural because my blood platelettes dropped really low, so when it came time that I needed help with the pain I used the laughing gas. I knocked myself right out of it and remember having some really strange dreams..... Anyways since I was so out of it I barely remember the pushing, but the nurses told me he practically came flying out! The doctor had apparently just checked me and I still had a lip. She turned to log it down but then had to turn right back around because one of the nurses was telling her his head was there and he was crowning! Patrick was born at 12:12pm on January 30th 2008 weighing 5lbs 1 1/2 ozs. Which isn't bad considering he was 4 weeks premature. Had I gone to term with him, he probably would have been my biggest baby. His name some of you might remember from way back in my "What's in a name" blog, because we've had this name picked out for a boy in case Victoria or Elizabeth had been a boy. It's Patrick Allan Goleski. Pictures have been added in my album below my blog, enjoy! :D TrackbacksThe trackback URL for this entry is: http://theromanticunicorn.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!22425F306F6D711B!1078.trak Weblogs that reference this entry
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