A couple people have asked mom for the story about how I came into the world 3 weeks early so here goes...
The night before I was born mom noticed that her fingers were blue before going to bed, this had happened before and her doctor told her to watch for it again, but not to worry too much so she went to bed. The next day while she was getting ready for work it happened again, twice so she started to get a little concerned. Once she got to work she called her doctor and he suggested she come in and get checked out.
Mom showed up at the hospital, they did some lab work and then checked her blood pressure and it was 190 over 88 which the doctor said was too high. Originally the plan was for mom to go home for the rest of the week and take it easy and then reassess on Monday. The doctor hooked her up to some machines to monitor how I was doing and then checked her blood pressure again and it was higher so he decided that since he was on call that night it might be best to get things started. Mom walked over to the hospital and they started pitocin around noon.
You might be wondering where dad was this whole time. Dad has had a really crazy month at work. They purchased a new machine which showed up the week before I was born, and then he got a promotion the week I was born so he had TONS of meetings about his new job, and had suppliers in about his new machine. Dad had meetings the whole morning that I was born so mom waited to call him until she thought his meetings were over. Dad showed up around the time they started mom on pitocin.
The nurses joked that all mom needed to do was smell the pitocin because as soon as they started it things started happening. Originally they planned on breaking mom's water around 5 pm but the doctor showed up and said it was time at 2:30.
Once mom's water broke she said the contractions started to get more uncomfortable and after a little while mom asked the nurses for some pain meds because she was worried about it getting really bad. The nurses were REALLY busy (8 babies were born in 24 hours, the Owatonna hospital typically only has 2-4 babies in the hospital at one time) so they didn't get back to mom with pain meds for about 30 minutes and by that time it was too late, they said mom went from 4cm to 9cm in only 30 minutes!
That's when things got really crazy. The nurses were running around trying to get all of the stuff setup and trying to find the doctor, mom started pushing before he even showed up! Mom said it was pretty crazy how quickly they got all of the instruments and warming stuff for me setup. 30 minutes after mom started pushing I was born.
Well, there you have it. Mom said it was a pretty crazy day, dad didn't have time to call Grandma and Grandpa until after I was born because it all happened so quickly! As soon as everybody knew I was here they started showing up and the rest is history!
Here are some pictures...This is the day I was born...
And this is from this morning, don't I look like a big girl?
Don't forget to wish me a happy 3 week birthday tomorrow :-)
Linden
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