We arrived at the hospital at 11 am and went through some pre-surgery stuff like signing consent forms meeting with the team that would deliver the baby and then the anesthesiologist. I had to get an epidural for the procedure. It was a very awkward feeling...not terribly painful, but uncomfortable.
I was moved into the operating room and Jason had to "scrub-in" putting on the blue outfit with hair net and face mask etc. The room was actually pretty comfortable, they had music playing and they talked to me the whole time about what was happening. Same as the epidural procedure, the actual c-section was not terribly painful, but lots of pressure and weird feelings.
Everyone was astounded at Delaney's size..they took her out and Daddy was able to cut the cord. Dr. Beal (one of our NICU drs. for Collin) was there to look after Delaney while they finished my surgery. It was surreal to be able to hear her crying and know .."WOW she can breathe ALL BY HERSELF!!!!" What a great feeling :)
After I was all stitched up, and Delaney was weighed and measured they took us back to a recovery room for a few hours where they monitored mine and babies temp and blood pressure. She wanted to feed right away and she was amazing at latching. She is a little piggy to say the least! She did have low blood sugar as suspected, so they gave her a tiny cup of formula. Her temp was low for quite awhile so they had us do skin to skin. It was so great to be able to hold her and feed her within the first hour of her life.. Such a different experience this time around.
Once Delaney's temp was acceptable they took her for her first bath :)
She is doing so well...She is sleeping good and eating well..We had to supplement some formula because breast milk takes a few days to fully come in and even though she is breast feeding, she wasn't satisfied enough. So we let her have some formula and then she was very happy and napped for 4 hours on the full belly :)
We think that both of our babies are a good combination of us, with Collin leaning towards Daddy, and Delaney leaning towards me! I found it very interesting though, that Collin's blood type is mine, and Delaney's is the same as Jason's.
I feel that I am recovering pretty well from the surgery..It is a little sore and hard to move around too much, but I was able to take a shower today and put on real pajamas instead of the hospital robe.. So i'm feeling pretty great :)
We should be able to go home sometime tomorrow! Here's the first pictures of our "little" lady..
