Ever since I had little Elliett (March 2 @ 12:32 am), I can't get that phrase out of my head. I have so many people I owe phone calls to, but I just don't feel like I have the time (or the right frame of mind...) to do it right now. So I figured I'd do a blog and just tell everyone the story here. So here is the story of how little Elliett joined us that night:
On the 1st of March (my due date I'll add) I had what I was hoping was my last dr appointment. At the one the week before I was already dialating and about 70% effaced, so I was in the very early stages of labor. I was hoping all the activities of the week would have progressed me further. Well.... I was dissapointed to say the least. I'd be lying if I said I didn't shead a tear or two. ( I really hate being pregnant) Well at the end of my appointment they wanted to set up an appointment for the next week! THE NERVE!!!!! I left hysterical. I know lame. But I just couldn't imagine being pregnant for one more week. I drove home with my mom and Zac, on the way I felt like I needed a drink, but since I obstain from alchohol I went for a diet coke. :) It was weird when I was in Rite Aid I didn't feel anything REALLY out of the ordinary, the contractions just started coming a little stronger. My cousin Emily was meeting us at my house to do my moms hair and mine too. We got home around noon and I think Em started doing my moms hair around 1ish. At that point I knew my water had broken, but I'd thought it'd broken with Zac and it hadn't. So I decided to wait a little while and see if I was a 100%. Around 3ish I was probably like 98% sure, so I told my mom and Em and my mom wanted to leave that second. But she had color on her hair so we had to wait for that to come out. we left the house around 3:45. Once we were at the hospital and they confirmed that my water had actually broken... (weird only 15% of women actually have their water break...) I was all hooked up to the IV's and ready to go, the nurse was like what is your pain level? I said 5 or 6, she said what is you acceptable level of pain? I said 5 or 6... LOL. So she requested the epidural. by about 7:00 they kicked out mom and greg so they could administer the shot. the first area they tried wouldn't go numb and I could feel the needle going in, so they had to try twice (the IV took 3 tries... I'm still bruised....) the second time was much better. once it kicked in everything was all good, but I started getting really cold. Around 8:30 they realised my water had broken more than 7 hours earlier and they needed to supplement my amniotic fluid. That made me even more cold, I think I had about 5 or 6 blankets on and my mom was laying on my legs to keep me warm. Little Elliett is a lot like her big brother, even when she was on the inside. So it wasn't a shock that they had to do all the internal monitors to keep track of her and her little heart beat while I was in labor. Everytime I had a contraction her little heart would slow almost a stop for the whole contraction. I know on one occasion I said just get her out!!! I meant I wanted a c-section, I don't like hearing the heart stop, Zac's did that too. I was relieved when they put the monitors on her too. around eightish my contractions started getting stronger and closer together. This combined with the epidural and being freezing cold, made me very sick. I was so nasuiated and threw up several time during a few contractions. It was disgusting. ANYWAY. Somewhere in there I spiked a fever too. They didn't get me antibiotics right away, they tried to bring it down by putting ice on my already freezing cold body!!! RUDE! hahaha. When they finally gave me anitbiotice to try to bring the fever down it was probably 11pm. Anyway what this horrible story is leading up to is how Elliett ended up in the NICU. So I am a carrier of the group b-strep virius. Which is only contageious and dangerous during labor. So about 4 weeks before you deliver they test you to see if it is active, this time for me it wasn't. (It was with Z) So I wouldn't need to have antibiotics hooked up during labor. Well at my second to last visit I asked if they'd test again cause it is a very dangerous thing to pass to your child. The Dr. told they wouldn't test again unless I spiked a FEVER. That was the only thing that would bring it out and make it active...... Remember how about a minute ago I said I spiked a fever DURING labor... yeah nice. So basically they didn't get antibiotics in me soon enough to get any to my sweet little angel. After she was born everything was normal until about 8pm that night when a NICU Dr. came in and said she was very sick. UH, not something you want to hear about your 16 hour old baby. Greg had just left for a minute and I was very upset. Greg's sister Sumer called him and told him to get back to the hospital asap. When he got there I was a wreck. so he asked everyone to leave and we called our good friend Eric and asked if he could come over and assist Greg in giving little Elliett a blessing.(and my mom called my sisters and my dad and they all fasted for her. And I know there were so many prayers said in her belalf! )He was there in about 20 minutes. After the belssing I was still sad but very comforted. The dr's came and took her away. So began the crazy schedule we kept while she was in the hospital. After I was discharged, I was withher every minute I was awake. I couldn't stand being away from her! They told us they would have the results of her test in about 3 days they would know for sure what it was. When day 3 was here I got to the hospital as fast as I could and met with the dr. This is exactly what he said to me "Really it doesn't make sense and there is no medical explination for what happened here, in her first culture the group b strep grew so fast. Now her second culture, done later that night, has grown nothing."
WE ARE SO BLESSED! And we felt so loved. I am so thankful to all of my faithful friends and family who offered prayers in her name. THANK YOU we love our little Elliett!
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So, these are the things I know: Miracles happen every day, our Heavenly Father loves us all, I am so blessed to be loved by so many and every thing I have comes to me from my loving Father in Heaven.
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