Disneyland Anyone???? Nah. We don't need that, we experienced more twist, turns, ups, downs and thrills than the Space Mountain. As most of you know we had a beautiful baby boy 10 weeks early, he was born at 2:50p.m. on the 25
th of march. He was 3 lbs 8 oz, 16.5 inches long. Okay I will start from the beginning. This will be a long post and FULL of detail so be prepared. I woke up at about 2:30 a.m. on the 25
th with a feeling of a gush of something, hoping it was not blood i rushed into the bathroom only to find that it was, so I woke up Chris and he called my mom and she came over to stay with the girls. We got up to the hospital and they immediately started an IV and started preparing me for a baby. I was very nervous because it took them some time to find his heartbeat which made me so scared because I was re living Chloe all over again, I really thought I had lost another child. After they found his heartbeat they had called my Dr. and he decided I was going to be there until I had him so I was thinking I would be on bed rest for the rest of the pregnancy if they could stop the bleeding. They gave me a steroid shot at about 3a.m. and told me i at least wanted to make it 12 hours for a second shot, so that was the plan. Well things changed I had actually stopped "gushing" and was stable and so was Gavin so when my Dr came in he had made the decision to have us both life flighted to the U of U for better care and the specialist to deliver me who have seen
Accreta many times. So that was the plan. Life flight was delayed because of the weather and they were in vernal waiting to take off so we figured they would be there about 1pm so family rushed up and my mom brought the girls up so I could say goodbye for now to them, and my nurse prepped me for the flight, well then life flight called and they still could not take off so it would be after 2pm before they could get there. I was fine,
Gavin was fine so they did not rush. Finally when they arrived they put me on the stretcher, strapped me in and wheeled me off. My mom had
taken Madalyn and some of my nephews to the front of the hospital to see the helicopter take off, and Chris and the rest of the family followed out with me to see me getting in the copter. They loaded me in and shut the door and we were ready to take off when all of the sudden i felt a huge gush so the nurse checked me and she saw just a little so she told the pilot we need to go now, well I told her that it just keeps coming and by this time which was just a few seconds later I felt completely soaked so she checked again and said stop, we have to get her off the copter NOW, she is bleeding everywhere. They rushed me back into the ER and started another IV on me and this one was for the blood transfusion so I kind of figured I had already lost enough for them to know I will need more. Again they could not find a heartbeat on
Gavin so I was trying so hard to stay calm and not freak out, as soon as she got the heartbeat, she said I got a heartbeat lets go, we have to get this baby out so they rushed me up to the Labor and Delivery OR and told me they were going to have to put me to sleep and put a breathing tube in, I was upset
because I wanted to hear and see
Gavin come out but i knew there was not enough time for the spinal to take effect, they had less then 10 min to take him out and get my uterus out or I would bleed to death. My Dr had been paged but was not there yet so another Dr came in and said
I'm going to start, I need to start now and I told him just remember to cut up and down or he would cut right through the Placenta, luckily my Dr showed up just as he was making the cut so he was able to deliver
Gavin. I guess the whole thing took about an hour, I had to have 6 units of blood and 2 of plasma, I had lost every bit of blood in me. I
don't remember
a lot,
I'm going off what people have told me, after I came out of surgery they decided to still life flight me back to the U because I had lost a lot of blood and was in a HUGE amount of pain. I was in the
SICU for a day and then was
transfered to the post
partum for the rest of my stay. I was released on Sunday which shocked everyone cause they had said I would be there for at least a week, but I guess I was a good girl and doing
soooooo much better than they ever thought. (I wanted to see my baby, I think that was my motivation!!!)
I had so many people that were there on that day wanting to see because most of them did not believe I would make it through this. They all have made comments like, you scared us so bad, i cant believe your still here, you should have died, you actually have a pink face. I really
didn't realize how bad and how close I was to dying. The life flight nurse came to see me down at the U and I have to credit her and
a lot of people have for her being the one who saved my life, she made that decision to pull me off the helicopter, she said If we would have
taken off, you and the baby would not have made the flight. I truly love Debi for being there. I am still in
a lot of pain and trying to recover but I am here. Gavin is doing well and just needs to gain weight, we are hoping to have him home sometime in May. I hate the fact that the
NICU has to be his temporary home for now but I know I have to recover and he need s
a lot of care right now and it would be far to hard to take care of him and myself so i am trying to be okay that where he is for now is best. I want to say a HUGE, HUGE thanks to my family for being there to take care of me, my husband and our girls. I can't imagine not having family there to help us through this. We are truly blessed. Sorry to those who could not get there hair done before I had him, I had totally planned on another 6 weeks of being pregnant and doing hair as long as i could but I guess we had other plans. I am having a hard time realizing this is it for us
because I still feel like i needed those 6 more weeks of being pregnant and enjoying it, but it got cut short. I am so grateful that we are both alive
and doing well so I guess I cant complain. Thank you to all who have keep us in your prayers. Keep doing it, they are working. I will post more pics of him soon.
This is some pictures of the first time I saw Gavin, He was 4 days old when I saw him, I hated missing the first 4 days of his life. I am so glad I had family visit him while I was down at the U, so he didn't get lonely. I will keep posting pictures because it is amazing how much he has changed since he was born. He is doing so good, he is back up to his birth weight and was able to get out of his isolet for a few hours today and play in a normal crib. As long as he can keep his body temp up he can stay in the crib. I love my little guy and feel very blessed to be here to raise him and his sisters, I miss Chloe a ton lately, and I know she is the one who was watching over me and her brother that day. Thanks for the love, support and prayers.
