Nov. 9, 2009 - Mikey and me
Thanks for all the well wishes, everybody! We are very glad to have Mikey home--though the folks to tend to you, bring you food, the two parents to one kid ratio of our hospital stay were all wonderful. Our town being what it is (snooty, rich, pretentious), I even got a couple of shoulder massages from the baby/mother ward roaming masseuse.
The baby is a good eater and obviously is thriving. We go for a weigh in on Wednesday. He dropped about a half pound in the hospital, but turned it around and began a little gain just before we left. I suspect he may well be back up to birth weight by the time of our weigh in.
Like most newborns, he has his days and nights screwed up, so 11p-5a is his most active/restless time but he is pretty zonked 9am-1pm ish. Seems like it took all of our kids about 8 or 9 weeks to turn that around. We have formal baby pics tomorrow, but really, just look at any of our prior boy pics. Mikey's closest to the Nathan iteration, though with a bit more hair and in a copper color. We'll see if that sticks around.
I finally figured out how to get things done--having my IV pulled the same day of surgery rather than the next morning, ordering up just the right proactive meds and measures to make sure all my systems are up and running in this first week or so post-op, good pain management regime. Hard won experience all for naught, apparently, as the ob says he would "wholeheartedly support" me not having any more kids and if I chose to, we'd have to have a "long conversation" about all the risks. I could definitely tell while in the OR that this C-section was different--and not in a good way--and ob confirmed that internal scarring from all the other sections makes another pregnancy ill-advised. He even said it is "pretty uncommon" for him to make that recommendation based on what they encounter during a C-section, so I take it I am a mess. Which should be pretty easy to accept when one is 42 and blessed with five healthy kids, but it still resonates as a loss to me. Not a go sob silently in the bathroom for hours type of loss, but a bigger one than "rats." Mr. Wonderful has had the good sense not to make a display of his probable relief upon hearing the same news.
That's all the news fit to print, and all the time to print it as we close in the end of the first week with Mikey.
Blessings, Holly
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Nov. 9, 2009 - congratulations!
Posted by Anonymous
Congratulations, Holly! I'm so happy for you. OK... you have to give me more details about your post-C-Section recovery plan.
I know what you mean about the finality of it all. I can't imagine doing this again! This is my 4th c-section and I'm 40 on this one, but still the finality of it all is kind of hard to take. I wonder why it's so much easier for other people to "be done"?
I'm glad you all are doing well. Looking forward to any updates since I'm walking the path just a few weeks behind you!
=] emily
http://everydaymomlife.blogspot.com
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