Thursday, April 30, 2009
Little Pig, Little Pig
Hunter continued to lose weight the first week and half of his life. Then he slowly started to gain weight. By this Monday he was suppose to be back to his birth weight. His birth weight was 7 lbs 5 oz. On Monday he weighed 7 lbs 13 oz. The doctor said that normal weight gain was about 1 ounce per day. Hunter is gaining 2 ounces per day. YEAH, grow boy grow!
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Friday, April 24, 2009
He's Here
Hunter Immanuel made his appearance on April 9, 2009 at 1:42 am. He arrived three weeks early, which was actually a blessing, because at three weeks early he weighed 7 lbs 5 oz. I can't image how much he would have weighed if he had gone three more weeks.
We went to the hospital at 2:00 am Wednesday morning, April 8, not expecting that we were going to leave a few days later with a baby. Tuesday I woke up feeling fine, but as the day progressed I started having pain in my inner and outer thighs, in my lower stomach and in my right side. I assumed this was pain from walking around the Zoo all day on Saturday. As the day progressed the pain got to the point I had to ask Daniel to come home. That night I had a fever and was throwing up and my side was hurting a lot. We called the doctor and he said he would meet us at the hospital.
The doctor suspected I had kidney stones. As they were trying to figure out what was causing my pain, they put a monitor on me that showed I was having contractions. After a few hours, they decided the contractions I was having were strong enough to go ahead and progress with labor.
The contractions were not particularly painful, but the pain in my side was getting worse. To help with the pain in my side they gave me an epidural. After that, life was GOOD.
After a few hours the doctor decided that I was not progressing like I should, so they gave me meds to make my contractions get stronger. Unfortunately at they increased the meds to strengthen my contractions Hunter's heart rate would go down. So they would stop the meds until his heart rate became normal again. This is why my labor lasted so long. About every 30 minutes we would have to stop the meds to get Hunter's heart rate normal again. Finally I was dilated enough to start pushing. This is where things got hard. I pushed for 2 hours and 40 minutes. After 2 hours I was so tired and I just wanted to be done. I really did not think I was going to be able to push him out. My contracts were no longer getting strong enough to be any help while I pushed. Finally he came out.
At first the doctor was going to hand Hunter right to me. He even gave me a blanket to wrap the baby in, but then instead of giving him to me, the doctor handed Hunter to the nurses who rushed him over to the new born station and started working on him. The umbilical cord had been wrapped around his neck and apparently they had to resuscitate him and he had some breathing problems. I was able to see him for a few seconds before they had to take him to the nursery to monitor his breathing.
At this point it was early Thursday morning. We were able to go to the nursery to hold Hunter for a little while, but they wanted to keep him there a little longer to watch him. Later Thursday morning they brought him to our room and from that point on we were able to keep him with us.
Hunter had a few problems with jaundice and his first week he continued to lose weight. But now we are into his third week and his jaundice is completely gone and he is gaining weight. He is doing really well and is such a blessing.
We went to the hospital at 2:00 am Wednesday morning, April 8, not expecting that we were going to leave a few days later with a baby. Tuesday I woke up feeling fine, but as the day progressed I started having pain in my inner and outer thighs, in my lower stomach and in my right side. I assumed this was pain from walking around the Zoo all day on Saturday. As the day progressed the pain got to the point I had to ask Daniel to come home. That night I had a fever and was throwing up and my side was hurting a lot. We called the doctor and he said he would meet us at the hospital.
The doctor suspected I had kidney stones. As they were trying to figure out what was causing my pain, they put a monitor on me that showed I was having contractions. After a few hours, they decided the contractions I was having were strong enough to go ahead and progress with labor.
The contractions were not particularly painful, but the pain in my side was getting worse. To help with the pain in my side they gave me an epidural. After that, life was GOOD.
After a few hours the doctor decided that I was not progressing like I should, so they gave me meds to make my contractions get stronger. Unfortunately at they increased the meds to strengthen my contractions Hunter's heart rate would go down. So they would stop the meds until his heart rate became normal again. This is why my labor lasted so long. About every 30 minutes we would have to stop the meds to get Hunter's heart rate normal again. Finally I was dilated enough to start pushing. This is where things got hard. I pushed for 2 hours and 40 minutes. After 2 hours I was so tired and I just wanted to be done. I really did not think I was going to be able to push him out. My contracts were no longer getting strong enough to be any help while I pushed. Finally he came out.
At first the doctor was going to hand Hunter right to me. He even gave me a blanket to wrap the baby in, but then instead of giving him to me, the doctor handed Hunter to the nurses who rushed him over to the new born station and started working on him. The umbilical cord had been wrapped around his neck and apparently they had to resuscitate him and he had some breathing problems. I was able to see him for a few seconds before they had to take him to the nursery to monitor his breathing.
At this point it was early Thursday morning. We were able to go to the nursery to hold Hunter for a little while, but they wanted to keep him there a little longer to watch him. Later Thursday morning they brought him to our room and from that point on we were able to keep him with us.
Hunter had a few problems with jaundice and his first week he continued to lose weight. But now we are into his third week and his jaundice is completely gone and he is gaining weight. He is doing really well and is such a blessing.
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