I had been fighting with a heart condition since I had been around 8 years old. I had an extra circuit in my heart and it would cause my heart to beat rapidly out of my chest at around 206BPM (beats per Min). Finally after 11 years I decided to go ahead and have heart surgery to correct this problem. I went in on Feb 12th, 2010 to have my procedure done. Little did I know they were giving me a constant run of antibiotics through my IV because they had to run lines from my groin directly to my heart and did not want to risk infection getting to my heart. Well they did not disclose this to me and I conceived little one on Feb 19, 2010
Fast Forward-
March 5th, 2010 when I knew something wrong even though I was not even a day late yet. I just had the feeling that I was. So I got two tests, one showed up slowly and the next one was instantly there. I cried. Being 19, I wasn't ready for a baby and had wanted to wait till I was 25 years old before even having children. I was also told I would never have children and that I should not even try..By 3 different doctors. I got my Miracle baby!!!
My Pregnancy-
My pregnancy was horrible...I was in constant pain, constant headaches. I just started a 72hr Bi weekly job as a Patient Care Technician at a wonderful hospital in our area and had to leave for modified bed rest at 18 weeks. I was pending miscarriage until 20 weeks, Had 2 severe hemorrhage's right next to my placenta, at 18 weeks I also started to have preterm labor and had to go on medicine to keep Colt inside of me. I went from weighing 104-151, I filled up with fluid, my back ached, my head throbbed, I was sick, I constantly had contractions and couldn't even "live it up " my last few months because I had 6 preterm labor incidents where I had to go into L&D, get shots and monitored for hours. Then 40 weeks came, It was finally over. I had a full term, healthy little boy in me, who now did not want to come out. He stayed till 40 weeks and 3 days.
My Induction/Labor-
I arrived at the hospital at 740am on monday so that we could get ready for the pitocin right away and get my labs sent out so I could get my epi and not have to wait. They told me I needed to have a reslease of surgery by my cardiologist. Well I did not know this so we ended up waiting till 1020 to start pitocin because they had to contact the office and get the realease ( I had heart surgery feb 12th 2010). Around 11:30 the contractions started to get stronger, I started to get pain in my back/hip. I was still dialated to a 3 so i didnt want to get the epidural right away and not progress, well my doctors wife ( another OBGYN of the practice) came in and told me they wanted to stop the pitocin and start again on the 13th at 9 am..at this point im alread in pain and the baby was doing just fine. I said No. we are not stopping labor and that I wanted him out. Well she called for the epi. Let me tell you the guy who did my epi was a complete and total asshole. He came in a simply stated " You are not my top priority..I have other patients" I wanted to snap but I didnt. So i got my Epi, and when i went back to lay back down flat my water broke by itself. Lol my son said Nope...im out of here.. It was clear so the nurses knew colton was going to be just fine with going on. An hour after my epi I was feeling everything, I was crying in pain, hurting so bad. It was the worse pain iv ever felt in my life. SO the guy came back and told me i wasnt pushing the button enough, and it turns out that he calculated wrong and didnt even hook my epi up right and it was dripping onto the floor instead of going into me. and It was in my muscle and not my spine. So he gave me a huge shot of the epi meds and i went numb for another hour then it was back, I was honestly bawling in pain with every contraction. I ended up dialating to a 6 at 6:30, I got my epi redone at 7:40 by a guy who knew what the hell he was doing, I felt so much better. Well actually I didnt feel anyting from the hip bones and down. lol. I could have kissed that guy lol. I fell asleep till around 9:30, The nurse checked me and said do you feel all that pressure? I said nope...i dont feel anything, well apparently my sons head was almost crowning out of me and I was a full 10. I pushed for 10 mins and my little man was placed on my chest. I started crying, I couldnt imagine anything more beautiful. He was perfect, eveything i dreamed about. Big beautiful blue eyes, Dirty blonde hair, big ol fat face. He was born at 9:57pm on 11/15 weighing 7lbs 14oz, 20.75 inches long and his head was 14.5 inches around...>.< i cant believe i pushed that out. I have stitches, but Its battle scars of birth i guess. Iv only had 5 hours of sleep in the last 3 days but honestly, I would not trade it for the world. :)
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