Born 8/8/11 at 1:25 am
8lbs 2oz c-section after 25 hours of labor
All vitals are good, but his blood sugar was on the low side. His umbilical somehow managed to get tied in a knot, which can be life threatening, and was not discovered until the c-section.
He was taken to a watch area where they got an IV in him. Its 3:30 in the morning now, it took about 45 minutes for them to be successful. They could not find a vein. Ended up putting it into the top of his head. Everything looks good now and we are just waiting on the blood sugar test to come back in about 20 more minutes after the IV push. If he does not require another push and his blood sugar starts to rise they will give him some doses of formula to spike it some more before allowing breast feeding.....speaking of which Cara is probably knocked out by now.
She is a few floors down in recovery. She had the shakes pretty bad from a side effect of the epidural.They gave her some Demerol to control that. She is still numb, last I talked to here about 45 minutes ago so they are not going to release her for a while. I am sure she is sleeping by now anyways.
Once I check to see that Noah's blood sugar is going up, I am going to try to get a little sleep myself while they are feeding him over the next couple hours. Other than that, all his signs are very good and he is healthy and is looking around and sticking out his tongue. He gave me a few high fives right when I first met him and barely made a peep through all his pokes and prods. Looks like we might have another easy kid....
Update...just went to check on the status...the blood sugar jumped back to normal so he is going to be just fine now. After he gets his little nightcap of formula he is going to sleep it off. Sounds like a good idea, I will try that also.
11 a.m.
Noah just got delivered to our room about 1/2 hour ago. After the low blood sugar incident was fixed, he ended up having a drop in temperature. So they wanted to keep him in observation and treat him. They started an antibiotic treatment and then ran some other tests. The blood culture test will still be a bunch of hours away from getting results but the Complete blood count test came back good so he was moved over to the regular nursery and cleaned up. They told us they feel confident everything is fine, but it is procedure.
They are still going to continue the antibiotic treatment because they started it so he still has his IV in for the mean time. Cara is lively now with just a little bit of pain. Noah is sleeping it all off and is getting settled into being in Cara's arms. She is happy...it was an emotional night for her. She did not get to hold the baby until now.
So the anxiety is slowly melting away because it seems like all the hurdles have been jumped through and we are on the home stretch. We are just waiting on him being able to latch on and breast feed which will be his first attempt here pretty soon. He got a big dose of formula before being released to us by the nursery.
Pictures will be coming soon once I get chance to upload. This network is very slow. Cara posted one on her face book account earlier though.
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