Emmaleigh Claire is here ! August 19, 2007 4lbs 8 oz- 17 ½ inches. What a birth it was. I had a very busy Friday Appointment after appointment getting things ready for things I wanted to do before Emma was born. Saturday morning I work up for my normal 4am trip to the bathroom. How ever When I went to the bathroom I felt dripping I just thought it was discharge, but It didn't stop. I still wasn't sure what it was. I came downstairs sat on the computer so see of anything came of it. I put on a pad to see. Darin came down to ask me what I was doing up I wasn't ready to say anything I just wanted to go to bed so I waited about an hour nothing happened I kept sort of leaking but I knew I was crazy it couldn't be my water it was much to soon I have 6 weeks left I was sick of being pregnant but I knew I be lucky of she was born a week or two early. OS I went to bed and though the rest of the night I would feel lots of leaking so I got up at 7am to check the status of the pad which was soaked the bone the kids were getting up by this point so when Darin walked by me I told him something isn't right. I don't know if my water broke up something isn't right and he was like okay let go get it checked out he didn't ask any questions So I started to get dressed and I leaked all over my shorts so I had to find another pair and I still wasn't sure my water broke. We got the kids dressed and in the car and less than a mile from the hospital the transmission went out and we couldn't go forward in the van I told Darin I walk I don't care I just need to be checked out. I still thought I was crazy that it wasn't my water I juts wanted to make sure. Darin start backing up in the parking lot the only way the van would go. He see some cop cars he went to talk to them to see if they give me a ride to the hospital they said no and called an ambulance. SO I road less than a mile to the hospital and I'd been having a few contractions but I was sure they were BH hicks I felt horrible for making all this fuss after all I was just being checked out I knew I was crazy. I got in the room got in the gown got hooked up. Then they checked me. Very thin for 34 weeks and closed I was like okay .... then she checked to see if it was my water with a strip and it in deed was my water my heart sank. What does this mean for me I'm thinking. Am I having a baby now. isn'tthis too soon can I go home like this or what. Meanwhile Darin is getting home and getting a baby sister and a ride to the hospital. the doctor comes in and talks to me does a quick ultrasound to see if baby was head down and she was. He looked at the fluid and saw some fluid patches. He said they watch me over the weekend and see how the fluid was come Monday and that it could be the pre bag and I may be able to go home Monday or Tuesday. Then they started an IV that was very sore. Then they gave me a shot of breatheen in hopes that would stop the contractions. Darin got up there and sat with me. They also told me that they be giving me shots for Emma's lungs 12 hours apart. I sat there for a few hours upset and board leaking on and off then I rolled over and felt more of a gush and I was starving I hadn't eating anything all day. Finally I got something to eat for lunch. I wasn't contraction on anything so I felt it was going to just be a very long weekend. I was hoping it all be okay. Then the IV started hurting really bad I wanted it out. I told them it was hurting so they re-did which hurt worse that I was crying. They gave me some time and I called my midwife and tried to avoid this IV but they were insisting I needed it. for several reason cause I needed the antibiotic and incase. I asked them if I could say no. They told me I could sign something but I might as well go home and they wouldn't treat me and my insurance might not pay if I go home. I didn't know what to do the IV hurt sooo bad more than it should. I got them to leave me alone for a few hours while I drank my little but off to hopefully get my vein easier to access. which it did. I got my first shot at 1pm for Em am lungs hung out around 9pm I started contractions while on the phone with my friend Jessica told her I was going to call the nurse and see what going on. Well they insisted on giving me pain med's to help relax me so that I would stop contractions the next thing I knew I was out. I hardly remember Jessica calling back and trying to ask what she wanted. I hardly remember them moving me to another room and putting a cathera in me. I remember contractions and not be able to react until 3am. When I woke up at 3am I was hurting so I told the nurse and Asked Darin what Jessica wanted. He told me just to see how I was doing. They checked me and I was 2 cm and decided to move me yet again to a labor & Delivery room it was time to have a baby. I was very scared not sure what to expect with this baby. I called Kami she headed to the hospital to be with me and help me. When I got over to labor and Delivery the hooked me up told me I could move around as i need for my pain. About 20 minutes later they checked me and say I was closed. What ?!? How do you go from 2 cm closed in 20 minutes they she said wait and dug a little more and say I was about 1 cm okay still doesn't add up. Now they want me back in bed to see if I'm going to make any change cause I amy not be in labor. Hello I'm having contraions every 2-4 mins. I did not want to get back in bed but she said I had to so they could monitor the baby cause with a baby this early they were worried about cord prolasp ugh .... I todl her I need 5 minutes and she wasn't bugign on giving me 5 minutes to collect my thoughts until I started crying, not long after Kami showed up I couldn't have seen a more welcomed face to come in that room she gave me the most comforting hug I had in a long time. I was so upset already not being allowed out of bed. I was sitting on the edge of the bed and getting up when no one was int he room. COntrion very hard the next time they checked me I was 3cm but I felt like I was much more startign to moan and all. It was very hard very discouraging. I started crying that I couldn't do this Kami thought I was more than 3cm told me to not think about that I was crying I cna't do this anymore I was soo tried dosing between controntion have them one on top of the other. Them I was starting to feel the urge to push so they came in to check me said I was 5-6 Cm what the hell I feel like getting this kid out. I felt like I couldn't go on. I cried I can't do this without my tub I don't know if I can make it natural Kami got in my face and said your doing great you can do this. Then she asked if I wanted her to check me so behind closed doors she check me and said I Was 8cm I was right there and to listen to my body, with each contraction i started pashing clots left and right. Then I couldn't take it anymore my body said to push so when the nurses who said I was only 5-6cm were out the room i lightly pushed with the watchful eye of Kami. Then they came in wanting to do a ultrasound to see baby fluid level which they were supposed to do the night before. The ultrasound teck came in my legs were spread out and I told her i wasn't modist she said she was and covered me up. having that ultrasound was sooo hard I had to stop pushing and stay still and I was hurting so bad. They said she was out of fluid and wasn't moving much and weight 5 lbs 10 oz. So she left and I was pushing again by this point I told them I couldn't help it my body is telling me to push the doctor walked in checked me and said I was 9 with a lip and it was okay to push so I started to push and not long after my daughter was born Emmaleigh Claire I was soo worn out I barely looked at her saw a glimpse as Darin cut her cord and she was rush over to be looked at. I was still feeling the pushing urge pretty bad so the doctor came over and out pops the placenta pretty quick she I hear him say that where the clotting came form that it pretty much came out with the baby. I got to hold Emma for a second and gave her a kiss. The doctor check me out no rips or tears which is nice. Then I saw the nurse hooking something up to my IV I said What are you hooking up. she said potcin I said no I don't want or need that. she was like it routine I said not on me it's not I will pump she was shooked and said she check with the doctor he okay it. Then I drank some juice and waited around to they let up to see my baby. I got to hold her and kangaroo care of and tried to nurse her right away. She didn't really take but I tried she wasn't on any breathing machine which was awesome. Kami finally left she was awesome came in the NICU with me help me ask the right question and all the choices I had for her care. Then we had a few other people stop by including my dad and the kids. I couldn't really pee at first so they ended up doing the cather to get the urine out and finally move me to a room and I was pumping as much as I could every 2 hrs around the clock bringing my milk down there the next few days were very emotional everyone came up to see the baby my grandparents my friend Katie was there helping me with the pump I was running into time where I couldn't see her cause of new admit and such I spend the days in the hospital hardly sleeping and crying non stop. Tuesday night I finally went home and that was soo hard I couldn't seem to keep it together every time someone walk in I would cry. They ended up putting her on tub feeding. She is now 5 days old. She was 4lbs 8oz when she was born and 17 1/2 inches long and dropped down the 4lbs she is finally gaining and is still on the feeding tube I decided to do a bottle cause I was up there every 3 hours for an hour or more It been wearing me down I can't keep up this pase I still pumping and feeding butat night until I get her home I going to let them try this to see if it speeds up her home coming, She is doing better. she does have jadidice and is under the light but it's going down and hopefully it keeps going down so she can work on maintaining her temperature and she should be going to the next step NICU soon so we're moving in the right direction she is a fisty little girl just like her mama who is fighting tooth and nail to get the nursing to work we had the whole LLL up there one day and put NICU in an uproar about me not being allowed to be with her and nurse her as I need to. SO we finally get them to work with us and we praying she keeping improving and can come home soon no date has been set. I still can't believe I had her already. She is perfect so tiny so snuggle. I'm in disbelief she is mine it won't seem real until I get her home in my arms. I so happy to have her and we lucky she is okay. The day I was discharge the doctor informed me that I was having placenta aburtion and if she wouldn't have come when she did we could have lost her. which is very scary. I"m sad I didn't get my planned home birth but I realized in the end I did make it natural like I wanted and Kami was the Key and Kami was the best thing to have to do that and the most important thing is my beautiful little girl is here and she alive and she will be okay it just going to be a struggle to get her where she needs to be to come home with her family, We love her so much being apart is tear us up, but we will become a stronger family when we over come this hard time as we have in the past each hard time makes out family stronger and we have a beautiful little miracle to show for it.
This entry has 16 comments: (Add your own)
#16 Comment from ruffasstites
9/1/07 12:01 AM | Permalink
Congrats. Great birth story. Prayers all around.#15 Comment from momma2mymiracles
8/26/07 11:59 PM | Permalink
((((Dani)))))) Congrats Sweetie!!!! I'll be praying Emma gets to come home soon....#14 Comment from momlibbe
8/26/07 11:28 PM | Permalink
It sounds like Emmaleigh is your little miracle! She sure looks like she belongs in your family. Congrats!#13 Comment from mizconduct1007
8/26/07 1:42 PM | Permalink
Congrats again sweetie. I know how hard it is, you know you can come to me if you need support. I've been in your position and it is so stressful. xxoo Mama.#12 Comment from kelljern
8/26/07 12:40 AM | Permalink
WOW....congrads!!! She will be home soon...Summer was 4 wks early and 5lbs 13 oz and lost to 5 lbs. But she is happy and healthy...just like Emma will be...
we will keep you and Emma in our prayers.
kellie#11 Comment from oceandreams94
8/25/07 7:07 PM | Permalink
CONGRATS to you and your family! What a birth story! Emma is just beautiful and you all will be in my prayers that she can come home soon!#10 Comment from poohluvstigger5
8/25/07 11:20 AM | Permalink
Wow!What an experience that Birth was!!Congratulations!!Emma is sooooooooooooo adorable!!Best wishes!I hope that Emma gets to come home soon!!Thanks for sharing!Hugs,Franny :-)#9 Comment from whitedaisys4jen
8/25/07 11:19 AM | Permalink
Dani I cried and cried reading this whole story! Im sorry things didnt go as planned but Im glad she is getting stronger and better each day! You did a great job hunny. Im glad I got to talk to you and get to know you a little more from our converstaions. Your an awesome mom and friend!! Hugs
Jenni#8 Comment from greeneyes2587
8/25/07 10:19 AM | Permalink
Congrats, Danielle!! Wow, what a story! I am so happy everything is going well. I pray Emma will be out of the hospital and safe at home with you soon!! She is absolutely beautiful!!!#7 Comment from mom2blaizenzaine
8/25/07 9:46 AM | Permalink
awww dani im so glad she is healthy. i had that same problem when zaine was in the nicu i was pumping and taking it down and they we're giving it to him thru a tube. well it was time for him to eat and they wouldnt let me in because it was between shifts i was so mad i was like my baby needs to eat hes hungry it sooo pissed me off! your right its def not the ideal to have a baby in the nicu. you guys are all in my prayers!#6 Comment from hartpack
8/25/07 9:20 AM | Permalink
Welcome baby Emma!!#5 Comment from jessicalflores1
8/25/07 9:00 AM | Permalink
Congrats Danielle! Welcome baby Emma! I hope you're home very soon little one.#4 Comment from monnie281
8/25/07 4:52 AM | Permalink
Wow you had a time didn't you, but you made it and sure have a beautiful little girl!! She sure was worth all the hard time you endured. She will be home soon, just keep up the prayers and everything will work out. You and your family will be in my prayers. God Bless!!!#3 Comment from westtxsweety21
8/25/07 3:37 AM | Permalink
What a scary time you had there. Many prayers coming your way that Emma is home with you soon. I'm so glad things turned out well, after what the dr said. How scary#2 Comment from kimmiep621
8/25/07 1:41 AM | Permalink
you did great job mommy. many more prayers for emma. can't wait till the day she can join you at home.#1 Comment from boricualove420
8/25/07 1:38 AM | Permalink
Emmaleigh is definitely a miracle baby!! That was some birth story! I'm glad that the both of you made it through it just fine and I'll be praying that she comes home soon!Congratulations to you and your family! She is very beautiful!
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