Thursday, March 27, 2008

5 years ago right now...


I was trying to go to sleep after a long day of going to the midwife and having a NST done to see how things were moving along. I wasn't due until April 19th, but was already having NST's 3-4 times a week due to complications. No contractions on the test and everything looked good (other than the complications we already knew about).
I had just gotten out of the tub and had some funky things going on so I called my midwife (thankfully she was the one on call) - she said since the NST showed no signs of anything happening to go to bed and come see her in the AM. So, off to bed I went. I think at this time I was getting to sleep.
1 hour from now 5 years ago my water broke. It wasn't even enough to get my sheets wet. Before waking up DH, I called my mom b/c she would know more about this than him. Of course she tells me to wake him up and off to the hospital we go. We check in around midnight and the nurse checks, sure enough, my water had broken - yet still no contractions.
They ask me if I want to have the c-section then or if I wanted to wait until the AM. I tell them I don't care either way to check with my midwife. She of course says let's do it now b/c she doesn't want me to have any contractions and cause problems since Jenna is breech and had not lowered.
We call our parents and by the time they get to the hospital they are wheeling me in for surgery. Thankfully, being a scrapbooker I reminded DH to run and get the camera out of the car before he gets all sanitized.
At 1:08 AM I hear the dr say, "where's her foot, I can't see her foot" which sent me into a fright, I know I saw 2 feet on the ultrasounds. At 1:10 the dr officially announces the birth of a 6lb 6oz little girl!
At 1:15 AM DH asks for a cot as he has seen too much blood and needs to lie down, thankfully we had pre-warned the dr about this and they had one ready for him in the hall while they cleaned up Jenna and stitched me up.
I am truly grateful to be her mom and want to say Happy 5th Birthday to my little girl, my angel, mommies best friend.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Happy Birthday Jenna!

Robyn said...

Happy Birthday Jenna. I had to have a c-sect because my daughter was breech too. But she was only a day early. That must've been a little scary.

Kristi @ Mi Vida Ocupada said...

Happy Birthday Jenna!