I know it has been a long time since I blogged. Things are crazy at our house right now.
Sariah came an entire month early, so instead of having a 6 week old baby, we have a 10 week old baby. Here is the story of her birth.
Wednesday September 4th, 1:00 am.
I woke up feeling something start to run down my legs. I got out of bed quickly but not before leaving a wet spot on the bed. As I felt water running down my legs, I told Richard, "I think my water broke." I ran to the bathroom and tried to confirm that it broke. Not having felt any contractions, I was really confused. Richard had only fallen asleep half an hour before, so he was hoping I had just peed myself. Embarrassing as it may be, I was hoping that was all it was because she was way too early and I was scared.
I put a towel down and Richard went down and got me a puppy pad to sit on while we figured out what to do. By the time he got back to our room with the pad, Riley was awake and crying. I climbed back into bed, yess on the puppy pad, and Richard put Riley in my lap, her normal middle of the night position. She drank from her cup and curled up with her head on my leg. I of course was too scared to sleep, so I stayed awake until about 545 and then we got up and Richard called the hospital to see what we should do. They said come in through the emergency room and they will take me back to labor and delivery triage.
After I did the usual get undressed and pee in a cup, they did a paper test to see if it was my water that broke or not. It came back negative, so they ordered another more accurate test that was more expensive. That too came back negative. There was a change of nurses and the nice nurse left and the more blunt nurse came on. She told me that I more then likely peed on myself. Inside I was thinking, my bladder can not hold that much liquid but maybe. So we went home!!
Once we were home, we of course went back to bed. I woke up about 4:30, the same time that Riley got up from her nap. I picked her up and headed downstairs. As I was halfway down the stairs I felt another rush of fluid run down my legs. Luckily I had put on a pad so the spillage was not that bad, but I did have to change my pants. I planted myself on the couch and refused to move. Richard came down about an hour later and got dinner ready. I tried to eat something but most of it came back up. I was just too nervous to eat anything.
When it was time to take the kids to Mutual, Richard took me back to the hospital to get rechecked. I was steady gushing liquid every time I moved since I came down the stairs from my nap. We headed straight back to Labor and Delivery Triage and luckily ran into the really nice nurse coming back to work. She let us in and got us a bed. She came in and did the paper test again and this time it was inconclusive, so here came the other test. This time I got two lines within minutes. Richard went around to look before the nurse came back and said there are two lines. When the nurse came back, she confirmed that my water broke and we were having her tonight.
I was wheeled into surgery and Sariah was born at 11:40 pm. Weighing 5 pounds 10 ounces and was 19 inches long. She cried but was very quiet after that. They gave her to Richard and he got to cut the cord. She too had a knot and the cord was around her neck. As I was being wheeled into the recovery room, they placed her on my chest and I held her the entire way there. Soon after I got there, Richard ran to the cafeteria to get something to eat. They had taken her from me and was giving her a bath when he returned. After watching her breath the nurse decided she needed to go to the nursery. Richard went with her to the nursery and when they took her to NICU, he stayed with her all night long. HE came back to give me updates, but then ran back to her. I was unable to go see her until I was not throwing up. The Pitocin makes me sick. I eventually got to go see her and they let me hold her before they put the tube down her throat to feed her.
Sariah was pulling to hard with her stomach muscles while breathing, so she had to have air. Then she needed a tube down her throat and an IV. Then she tested positive for jaundice and was put under the ultraviolet light. She was there until September 10th. Saturday after a baptism our Bishop and his wife came to visit us in the NICU. Together him and Richard gave her another blessing and that next morning she was sucking the bottle on her own!!! It was a miracle!!
I was discharged on Sunday, but spent every waking hour with her and supplying her with breast milk until she came home. I got visits from my friends Sarah Rowley and Anne Arnold and her husband along with the Bishop and his wife. The kids even got to go in an see her, Riley too!!
