My little girl is here

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Well it has been one hell of a week for me - so many ups and downs

but the end results are a beautiful littlt girl that is absolutly

perfect. Sienna Rose was born by emergency c- section at 2:46 pm

Saturday September 18th. She weighed a tiny 5lbs 11oz at 40+ weeks

gestation and was 19 " long. You can view her hospital pic. at the

following address.She was soo tired that she wouldnt wake up for any

thing. Th little red chin comes from trying to learn to breast feed

and is already almost healed.

www.growingfamily.com/webnursery/babypage_view.asp?URLID=4B9V2Q6S0U

Here is how she came into this world.....(this part is long if you

choose to continue to read it)

I have been married for 18 years and have not even been able to

concieve since the 80's (which resulted in 3 miscarriages) so to me

she is truely a miracle. Although I feared a miscarriage with this

pregnancy it was textbook perfect. Very little nausea moderate-

fatigue in the first trimester. The worse symptom was constipation in

the first trimester(and that was pretty bad but got resolved)

Everything was perfect until a couple of weeks ago when the growth

ultrasound showed an amnionic fluid level of 5(it had been ok before

that) I was sent home for labor day weekend on rest and the fluid

came up to a 7. I was able to stay home from work on rest to keep the

levels up - which thrilled me. I had had a couple of days with semi

regular contractions that fizzled out and stoped. So by the next

weeks apt I was 39weeks 5 days pregnant. My blood pressure was way up

for the first time ever so thet kept me in the hosp. overnight for

observation on the baby monitor doing the 24 hour urine test to test

for the beginning of pre eclampsia. Every thing seemes still ok even

though my pressure was erratic going from 103 over 52 to 174 over 124

without appearent reason. They allowed me to go home on bed rest last

wednesday until Friday where they would check me out again. They were

trying not to have to induce me because the state of my uterus was so

unready - it was so high that 2 people couldnt even find it because

their hands were not long enough and it was thick and tight - not

ready at all. They feared That if they tried to induce I would go

into labor and still not be able to deliver and I would have to have

a c- section. They wanted to avoid a c- section because I have the

MTHFR heterozygos gene and could have more complications with

clotting or stroke. Well when I went in friday they kept me because

the baby seemed to be effected by my still erratic blood pressure.

They started the induction at about 4pm but warned me that it may not

be until Sunday that I deliver because my body is so unready for

this. At around midnight i was having contractions that were

effecting the baby's heart rate so they gave me something to stop the

effect of the cydotec(spelling?) that they used to get things

started. That helped( Still no dialation)the baby 's heart return to

normal. Around 4 am the drug that made things stop for awhile wore

off and I was having pretty strong contractions and was dialated at a

1 so they let it continue - the babys heart rate seemed to tollerate

the labor ok at this point. By 6 am the contractions were strong and

some only 30 sec apart - some 2 min. I was dialated to a 3+ at that

point so they broke my water to get things moving faster. I was in so

much pain but the anesthesiologist was in a c-section at the time and

it would be awhile - they gave me an injection of something to take

the edge off which felt no stronger than tylenol to me. They put so

mant monitors in me vaginaly that I must have looked like a squid.

They were flushing me with saline because there was so much meconinum

in the water when they broke it looked like sewage. I had a fetal

pulse ox monitor heart rate monitor and contraction monitor all

internally. The contractions were so strong at this point that they

were off the chart and still no futher dialation. Finally I got the

epidural and was able to relax myself( the whole time my BP continued

to be erratic) As the contractions increased the baby heart rate

continued to decelerate and recover more and more slowly so they

tried to stop labor again. It was not in time though because by

2:30pm her heart rate went down to 25 (before all of this it was

averaging in the 125's - 145's) and was not comming back up. they

felt that the cord was being compressed and no matter what position

they moved me in it did not help enough. Suddenly I was signing

papers for an emergency c-section and being unhooked from all of the

monitors so they could move me to the OR. I couldn't find my husband

because they pulled him out to get into scrubs so he could be with me

but I had no idea because things were moving so fast. Going down the

hall I started to cry because all I could think about was I came this

far and I just couldn't go home with out my baby. Then I thought what

if I die and she dosn't have a mother? Things just moved so fast I

didnt have time to process it. 5 min. after I was in the OR I felt

the pressure of them pulling her out and heard the most beautiful

little squeek and I knew she was alive and well. My husband video

taped them cleaning her and weighing her I cried and cried because I

was so happy. She is so small but that is typical of my family

anyway - but she is very strong and alert. She even picked up the ink

card they set next to her when they were doing the foot prints and

she wavev it around. Not even 3 min. old and already into

something Well that is our story if you stayed with us this long.

I am tired but doing well and she is wonderful - she has regained all

but 1 oz of her birth weight at 5 days old so I'd say we will be just

fine - Diane